Classify past emails as wanted or unwanted and save to Notion
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How does this automation work?
Bardeen's playbook offers a solution to manage your inbox more effectively by classifying emails as wanted or unwanted and saving them to Notion. This automation is designed for personal productivity, allowing users to filter through their past emails within a specific timeframe. By categorizing these emails and transferring the organized information to Notion, you can declutter your inbox and streamline your workflow.
Here's how this workflow processes email classification and integrates with Notion:
- Step 1: Find Emails - Search your Gmail account for emails within the specified dates. You'll be prompted to enter the date range, ensuring that only relevant emails are fetched.
- Step 2: Classify Emails - Bardeen AI Actions will analyze and classify the text from your emails. You will define the classification task, determining how emails are sorted as wanted or unwanted.
- Step 3: Save to Notion - The classified email data is then added to a Notion database. Notion acts as a versatile workspace where your categorized emails can be stored and accessed easily.
How to run the playbook
Tired of sifting through a cluttered inbox, drowning in a sea of emails? Frustrated with the constant battle against unwanted messages? Look no further. This automation is here to bring order to your digital world.
Imagine effortlessly identifying and segregating emails within a specified timeframe, tailored to your preferences. Say goodbye to the hours wasted on manual sorting. Whether it's crucial client communications or pesky spam, our automation uses your customized classifier to categorize them swiftly.
The results are seamlessly saved to your Notion database, ensuring your important information is neatly organized and easily accessible. Streamline your email management process and regain control over your inbox. It's time to simplify your digital life.
Let’s set it up!
Step 1: Create a Notion database
The first step is to create a Notion database with the email information you want to save.
Bardeen will extract information from your emails like subject line, sender, date, link to email, labels and pair them with the information from your classifier, once your setup is complete.
Step 2: Install the extension and map the information to Notion
You will be redirected to install the browser extension when you run it for the first time. Bardeen will also prompt you to integrate Notion.
Click the “Pin it” button at the top of this page to get this automation saved to your Playbooks.
Activate Bardeen (or hit Option + B on Mac or ALT + B on PC on your keyboard) and click on the playbook card. The setup flow will start.
Bardeen will then prompt you to modify your email classifier. You can choose an existing one or create a new classifier with criteria for your emails.
After you click “customize classifier”, Bardeen’s classifier configuration will launch. You will be asked questions about the emails you want to keep. Answer in as much detail as possible. This will ensure that the classifier is more accurate.
After you answer your questions, Bardeen will request that you create your categories. Your emails will be classified based on your categories and descriptions here. For example, I entered “Emails with Invoice” as a category and added a description. Emails that fit that description will be categorized as “Emails with Invoice” and any other emails will be categorized as “unwanted”.
Finally, we recommend that you train your classifier with sample emails to increase accuracy of the results.
After your classifier setup is complete and you choose your Notion database, Bardeen will ask you to map your fields to Notion.
The left side consists of all the fields Bardeen will scrape for you. On the right side, specify the fields in Notion that you want to associate with the information on the left. If you don’t want a piece of information, leave that field empty, and it will be skipped. That’s it!
Click on “Save Input” and checkmark Notion. You can edit Inputs later by hovering over the playbook.
Step 3: Run the playbook to classify past emails and save to Notion
Press Option + B on Mac or ALT + B on PC on your keyboard to launch Bardeen. Click on the playbook card and run the playbook to classify your emails from a timeframe. It will go over every email for the timeframe, categorize them based on your classifier and save the results and classification to your Notion database.
You can also edit the playbook and add your next action to further customize the automation.
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