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Clear your important emails by voice while you go for a walk

Idea + starter prompt, not run by us yet

For: Busy owners who want their inbox handled when they are away from the desk

Allie Miller used ChatGPT's mobile voice mode with ChatGPT's Codex app running on her Mac. While walking with earbuds, she spoke instructions to scan and triage email, skip newsletters, draft replies, archive or star items and log action items in a sticky note. At her desk later, she reviewed the to-do list and drafts. The voice session cut off after 90 minutes.

Steps

  1. Use a paid ChatGPT plan with ChatGPT's Codex app on your computer, and connect your email in advance.
  2. Decide the rules before you leave: skip newsletters, handle client, contract, invoice and bug emails.
  3. Allow only what you need. Start with reading, drafting and starring. Do not allow deleting or sending yet.
  4. Speak one instruction per email and listen to what it plans to do before saying yes.
  5. Expect the session to stop after about 90 minutes. Start a new thread to carry on.
  6. Back at your desk, read every draft and the action list before anything is sent.

Starter prompt

Starter prompt. Change the [brackets] first.

Help me triage my inbox by voice. Trial first. Work only on emails I have put under the label [Trial] or in a folder of 5 test messages, and show me what you would do with each. Touch nothing outside that label.

After the trial, look at my unread email from the last [2 days]. Skip newsletters and promotions. Focus on emails about clients, contracts, invoices and bugs.

For each important email, tell me in one or two sentences who it is from and what they want. Then suggest one action: reply, archive, star or add to my to-do list. Stop and wait for my spoken yes before each action. Saying the suggestion is not permission to do it.

Draft replies but never send one. Save the drafts for me to read at my desk. Do not delete anything. Add action items to a note called [note name]. Do not ask me for passwords. If you need a new permission, tell me exactly what it is before asking.

Original post: X · @alliekmiller · found via agentusecases.ai. Written up in our own words. We haven't run it, so test it on made-up data first.