Summarize email threads and fill spreadsheets from articles
The author used Comet in Gmail to summarize a thread about cancelling a yoga membership and asked it to fill an empty spreadsheet with game info from an article.
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- What they did
- The author opened Gmail in a Comet browser tab, so the assistant could read it without a Gmail connector, and asked for a summary of a long email about cancelling a yoga studio membership. For the spreadsheet task, they opened an article listing games in one tab and an empty spreadsheet in another. They then asked the assistant to fill the sheet with the games' information.
- How it went
- The email summary worked well once the author was logged into Perplexity. The spreadsheet came back with nine games, then twelve after a prompt, though the article lists more than thirty.
- Worth knowing
- Comet's browser agent is part of Perplexity's $200/month Max plan, and the author found it missed entries on long pages, so check the output for completeness.
Try it yourself with Perplexity Comet
Open the email thread about [topic, e.g. cancelling my gym membership] and summarize it: who said what, what was decided, and what I still need to do. Then read [article URL] and fill the spreadsheet at [spreadsheet link] with [fields, e.g. title and rating] for each item. Finish when the summary is written and every row is filled; don't send any emails or change other sheets.
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