Every morning
Every morning I read through fifty emails to find the five that actually need me.
How it goes now
Open the inbox.Open one. Not for me.Open the next.Skim the thread.Flag it.Scroll back up.Wait. Was that one due today?
Every morning, before the real work starts.
Tell Kitewell once
Every weekday at 8:00, find the email that arrived in my mailbox in the last 24 hours, write a digest grouped by topic with anything due today first, and email it to me.
That's the whole setup. Kitewell lays out every step for you to check, and nothing is saved until you apply it.
Then it runs on its own
Inbox digestRunning on this computer
- Find yesterday's emailEverything that arrived in the last 24 hours, up to 50 emails. Nothing is marked read.Done
- Write the digestA model groups it by topic, names who is waiting on you, and puts anything due today first.Done
- Send it to meOne email, to your own address.Done
What you get instead
Inbox digest8:00
2 due today. 3 people waiting on you.
- To
- you
- Subject
- Inbox digest
Due today
- Contract renewal: Dana needs your signature by 5 pm.
- Quarterly numbers: the finance sheet closes at noon.
Waiting on you
- Sam asks whether Thursday works for the demo.
- The printer quote needs a yes or no.
- Lee sent the draft for your comments.
Everything else
- Two newsletters, the shipping notice for the chairs, and four receipts.
Good to know
- There is nothing to approve: it only reads your email and writes to you. Finding never marks anything read, so your inbox looks the same afterwards.
- The model reads the text of the emails it summarizes. Choose one you trust with them, or a local model.
- Your computer needs to be on and awake when it runs. A run missed while it slept starts when it wakes, within 24 hours by default.
What it needs
- A connected mailbox: Gmail, Microsoft 365, iCloud, or any IMAP
- An API model: Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, or a local server
More chores
- Every few daysEvery few days I open each emailed invoice, copy the supplier and the total into a spreadsheet, and file the email away.
- Every morningI check the same product page every morning to see whether the price has dropped.
- Every weekday morningEvery morning I log in to our supplier's portal, download the new invoices, and type each one into an accounting app from 2009.