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playbook Template

Get daily summaries of your emails and send them to Slack

This automation will get emails from the specified time frame, summarize them using OpenAI, and send the summaries of each email to a Slack channel or user every day.

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How does this automation work?

When a scheduled event occurs
Trigger
Find emails
Action
Get summary of a text by OpenAI
Action
Send Slack message
Action

Bardeen's playbook for daily email summaries to Slack is designed to help you stay on top of your inbox without constant monitoring. It automates the process of summarizing your email contents and sending these summaries to a designated Slack channel or user. Especially for busy professionals who rely on Slack for communication, this workflow ensures that you never miss important information from your emails while maintaining focus on your work.

Here's how this workflow automates your email summaries into Slack:

  • Step 1: Set Schedule - You decide when Bardeen should trigger the workflow to gather your emails. Set the time frame for daily summaries by specifying the 'After when?' and 'Before when?' parameters.
  • Step 2: Find Emails - Bardeen interacts with Gmail to find emails within the specified time frame. Gmail's powerful search capabilities are utilized to gather the necessary emails to summarize.
  • Step 3: Summarize with OpenAI - The body of the found emails is summarized using OpenAI's advanced natural language processing capabilities, providing you with concise and relevant summaries.
  • Step 4: Merge Summaries - The summaries are then merged with the subject lines to give context to each summary in preparation to be sent to Slack.
  • Step 5: Send to Slack - Finally, the summaries are sent as messages to the designated Slack channel or user. Slack becomes the hub for your daily email summaries, allowing for quick review and action.
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How to run the playbook

Looking for a more streamlined approach to extracting emails within a specific timeframe and effortlessly sharing their summaries on your Slack platform? Your quest is over. This automation is finely tuned to seamlessly retrieve emails that match your parameters and promptly deliver their essence in condensed form to your chosen Slack channel or user, each and every day.

Leave behind the mundane chore of sifting through emails manually or toggling between applications to disseminate crucial information. With this automation, email retrieval and summarization become a breeze, ensuring that your team remains updated and informed without any undue stress.

Tailored for professionals seeking a smoother communication workflow or detail-oriented individuals who crave an efficient way to keep everyone in the loop. 

This automation stands ready to transform your email-to-Slack experience, amplifying your productivity in the process. Streamline your workflow and save time on your mundane tasks.

Let’s set it up!

Step 1: Set up the automation and integrate Gmail and Slack

Click the “Try it” button at the top of this page to get this Autobook saved.

You will be redirected to download the browser extension when you run it for the first time. Bardeen will also prompt you to integrate Slack.

Bardeen will then prompt you to enter a Slack channel or user to send the summarized emails. To get your emails saved, you will need to choose a timeframe. 

For example, if you enter “After yesterday” and “Before now”, Bardeen will find any emails between “now” and “yesterday”. It will then send the emails to your specified Slack channel or user at execution time. 

Step 2: Try it to get daily summaries of your emails sent to Slack

After your setup is complete, make sure the automation is activated (toggled on).

It will summarize emails daily and add them to the specified Slack channel or user along with information like subject line, summary, date, and link.

You can also edit the playbook and add your next action to further customize the automation.

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Available actions & triggers

Apps:
Get daily summaries of your emails and send them to Slack
Get daily summaries of your emails and send them to Slack
Get daily summaries of your emails and send them to Slack
Types:
Both
Actions
Triggers
Generate email from prompt
Generate email from prompt
Action
Send email
Send email
Action
List action items
List action items
Action
Create OpenAI composed email from text
Create OpenAI composed email from text
Action
List entities and types
List entities and types
Action
Get summary of a text by OpenAI
Get summary of a text by OpenAI
Action
Create draft email
Create draft email
Action
Find Slack users
Find Slack users
Action
Extract tasks from description
Extract tasks from description
Action
Send file to Slack
Send file to Slack
Action
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