The poster set up a separate inbox the AI monitors and acts on, adding calendar reminders and turning text reminders into tasks.
The poster set up a separate inbox the AI monitors and acts on, adding calendar reminders and turning text reminders into tasks.
The poster connected two mail accounts to ChatGPT: a dedicated Outlook inbox for the AI and their personal Gmail separately. In chat, they could tell it things like emailing a reminder next Friday at 6 pm, and ChatGPT drafted the message from the Outlook account to Gmail and queued it with delayed delivery; the person just issued the request and checked the result.
It worked in their test: a reminder requested for one hour later was scheduled in Outlook and turned the AI inbox into a simple reminder system. In the comments, the poster said the broader value might be giving the AI a separate sandbox, but also noted security concerns if it reads incoming mail.
A practical catch the poster mentioned is that their ChatGPT only allows five scheduled tasks at once, which made the email workaround more interesting.
Monitor this separate inbox, [assistant email address], and act on what I send or forward there. Turn reminders and requests into tasks in [task app] and add events to my [calendar]. Reply to me with a one-line confirmation of each action, and ask me before sending any email to someone else or deleting anything.
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