How to triage unread email with Make's AI Agent and get a morning summary

Inbox & calendarMake

The problem

Waking up to a full inbox means sorting newsletters, follow-ups and urgent items before doing any real work.

Tools needed

• Make (AI Agent module)
• Gmail
• OpenAI API key

Step-by-step recipe

1. Start a Make scenario with Gmail's Watch New Emails trigger for unread mail.
2. Pass each email to Make's AI Agent module running on your OpenAI key.
3. Give it your triage rules for sender, subject and content.
4. Have it label, archive or flag each email.
5. Send yourself a summary email of what it did.

Copyable prompt

You triage my inbox. For each email decide one action:
- URGENT: needs my reply today (clients [LIST], anything about [TOPICS])
- FOLLOW-UP: needs action this week
- READ-LATER: newsletters and updates I subscribed to
- ARCHIVE: notifications, receipts, promotions
Return JSON {"action": "...", "label": "...", "one_line_summary": "..."}. Never delete. When unsure, choose FOLLOW-UP.

From: {{from}}
Subject: {{subject}}
Body: {{body}}

What the builder reported

The author says he woke up to a summary of 3 urgent emails, 2 newsletter ideas, 1 follow-up and 4 archived emails without opening Gmail. The system prompt sits behind a paywall, and the source doesn't explain how the approval step works.

These are the source author's own claims. AgentRecipes has not tested or verified them.

Watch out for

• The author puts the cost at about $12-15 a month: a paid Make plan from $9 plus $5-10 of OpenAI credits lasting 1-3 months.
• Prefer labelling over archiving until you trust the rules.

Source

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