Triage work email and draft call follow-ups
A commenter uses Claude for email triage and a custom assistant that works through a to-do list, plus a call router that scans their calendar, reviews recorded calls and drafts follow-ups.
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- What they did
- One commenter built a terminal-based Opus agent with connectors to Gmail, Slack, Reminders, and calendar, then chatted with it through Telegram. It scraped past emails to build a style guide, scanned inboxes on a cron schedule against urgency rules, worked through a to-do list, drafted emails for review, and only notified the person during focus blocks when something met the urgent criteria.
- How it went
- They called it life-changing because it let them do deep work without constantly checking messages, while still using the agent for triage and draft prep. They still would not let it send email without approval, and treated setup as a custom project rather than an out-of-the-box tool.
- Worth knowing
- The commenter said the first version took about 40 minutes to set up, and emphasized Telegram as a stable remote control channel when away from the laptop.
Try it yourself with Claude
Here is my inbox from the last [time period] and my to-do list: [paste emails and tasks]. Sort the emails into reply today, reply this week, and ignore, and give me a one-line reason for each. For any [calls or meetings] I've had, here are the notes or transcripts: [paste]. Draft a follow-up email for each, and don't send anything; I'll review each draft.
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