Give an AI its own inbox to act as personal assistant
The poster set up a separate inbox the AI monitors and acts on, adding calendar reminders and turning text reminders into tasks.
Done with a custom-built or unnamed agent
- What they did
- The poster connected two mail accounts to ChatGPT: a dedicated Outlook inbox for the AI and their personal Gmail separately. In chat, they could tell it things like emailing a reminder next Friday at 6 pm, and ChatGPT drafted the message from the Outlook account to Gmail and queued it with delayed delivery; the person just issued the request and checked the result.
- How it went
- It worked in their test: a reminder requested for one hour later was scheduled in Outlook and turned the AI inbox into a simple reminder system. In the comments, the poster said the broader value might be giving the AI a separate sandbox, but also noted security concerns if it reads incoming mail.
- Worth knowing
- A practical catch the poster mentioned is that their ChatGPT only allows five scheduled tasks at once, which made the email workaround more interesting.
Try it yourself with OpenClaw
Monitor this separate inbox, [assistant email address], and act on what I send or forward there. Turn reminders and requests into tasks in [task app] and add events to my [calendar]. Reply to me with a one-line confirmation of each action, and ask me before sending any email to someone else or deleting anything.
Source: Reddit · Sep 28, 2026
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