Daily Inbox Triage
Read the selected Gmail inbox, identify decisions and overdue follow-ups, and prepare a concise priority brief. Replies stay as linked drafts for you to review and send.
What Okou delivers: your inbox morning brief
Explore a complete sample brief with an ordered action queue, threads that need a follow-up, useful context, and a count of everything collapsed by source. The names and figures are illustrative; the structure is the real output Okou can generate from Gmail and send to Slack.
Agent summary. Okou reviewed 183 messages from the last 24 hours, surfaced four decisions due today, found three threads waiting for follow-up, kept twelve useful updates, grouped 164 routine messages by source, and posted one brief to Slack without changing Gmail. Messages reviewed: 183, last 24 hours. Action items: 4, all due today. Collapsed safely: 164, 89.6% of inbox.
Open the full inbox morning briefWhat is an inbox morning brief?
An inbox morning brief is a prioritized daily summary of the email that needs action, the conversations waiting for follow-up, the updates worth knowing, and the routine messages that can wait. Read the selected Gmail inbox, identify decisions and overdue follow-ups, and prepare a concise priority brief. Replies stay as linked drafts for you to review and send.
Why the messages that matter disappear in a busy inbox
It is 7:00 AM and 183 messages landed since yesterday. Four need a decision today, three conversations are waiting on you, twelve are useful context, and the remaining 164 are routine notifications, newsletters, receipts, and alerts. Reading newest-first hides the exposed API key and the customer redlines among all that volume. Okou reads the full threads before the day starts, orders what matters by consequence and deadline, keeps the routine mail available without deleting it, and sends one inbox morning brief to Slack.
How Okou builds your inbox morning brief
1. Choose the accounts and access
2. Start in the Okou conversation
3. Review and reuse the workflow
What the Gmail and Slack integrations do
Gmail supplies the inbox evidence. Read the brief in Okou, or configure an explicit Slack destination. Mailbox changes and reply drafts remain separate requests.
Gmail integration: what Okou reads
RequiredOkou reads messages received in the window you set, including sender, subject, body, thread history, and attachment names or contents when they affect priority. This workflow does not move, delete, archive, label, forward, or answer email. Drafting a reply is a separate request and the draft waits for you to send it.
Slack integration: where the brief arrives
OptionalSlack is optional. After you explicitly choose a channel or DM and authorize delivery, Okou can post the brief there. Otherwise the report stays in the conversation where you requested it.
Okou vs. inbox rules vs. reading newest-first
Email clients can sort by sender and rules can move messages into folders. An inbox morning brief does a different job: it reads the meaning of each thread, explains why something matters today, and gives you one ordered start.
Reading newest-first
You scan every subject line, open the ambiguous ones, reconstruct the thread, and keep a mental list of what needs an answer. It works until volume hides an older deadline under a newer newsletter.
Filters and priority inboxes
Rules are reliable for known senders and labels, but they cannot tell whether the latest message resolves a thread, creates a deadline, or changes the next action. They sort the inbox; they do not write the brief.
Okou's inbox morning brief
Okou reads the full thread, orders decisions by consequence and deadline, separates what you owe from what you are waiting on, groups repetitive mail, and posts one scheduled brief. The underlying messages remain untouched in Gmail.
Tips for better results
Frequently asked questions
How do I create an inbox morning brief from Gmail?
Connect Gmail, define the reporting window and priority rules, and review one brief in chat. Then save the instructions as a workflow and configure a weekday schedule. Slack is optional if you want delivery there.
How does an AI email assistant decide what is urgent?
Okou uses evidence inside the message and thread: consequences such as an exposed credential or failed payment, explicit deadlines, customer commitments, who owes the next reply, and whether the issue is already resolved. Your instruction can add fixed rules, such as always treating security alerts or a named customer as high priority.
Does Okou delete, archive, label, or move emails during triage?
Not in this workflow. It reads the chosen window and produces a summary without changing the mailbox. Archiving, labeling, moving, and drafting replies require their own explicit instruction.
Can Okou draft replies to the emails in the morning brief?
Yes. After the brief arrives, ask Okou to prepare a reply to a named action item. It can create a Gmail draft using the thread context, but the draft waits for you to review and send. The scheduled brief itself does not answer email.
Can the inbox morning brief run automatically every weekday?
Yes. Create an automation for the time you choose, such as 7:00 AM every weekday. Each run covers the preceding 24 hours, applies the same priority rules, and posts to the same Slack destination. You can also run the workflow on demand for a fresh brief later.
What should an email morning brief include?
A useful brief starts with decisions and deadlines, then lists threads you owe a follow-up, context worth knowing, and a compact count of routine messages grouped by source. Every action item should name the sender, subject, why it matters, and when it needs an answer.
Build your first inbox morning brief
Start in the Okou conversation with your sources and the result you need. Review the first result, then decide which parts to save as a workflow.
