On a schedule
Get a daily email summary on WhatsApp
Each evening you get a short WhatsApp summary of the day's emails, grouped by what needs a reply.
- Runs
- On a schedule
- Apps
- Gmail, WhatsApp Business
- AI
- Yes, uses the built-in AI allowance
- Access
- Gmail readonly; WhatsApp messaging
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Create a ClickRuntime automation: every day at 6pm, summarise the emails I received in Gmail today and send the summary to me on WhatsApp, with anything that needs a reply listed first.
First time? Adding ClickRuntime to your assistant takes about two minutes.
Why use it
Why teams use this automation
Busy owners and managers often go through the day without properly reading their inbox, then sit down in the evening to a wall of unread messages and no idea which ones matter.
A short summary on WhatsApp at the end of the day, with the emails that need a reply listed first, shows you at a glance whether there's anything to deal with tonight or whether it can wait until morning.
What you get out of it
The day at a glance
A few lines tell you what came in. No scrolling through an inbox.
Replies listed first
Emails that need an answer are at the top, so they don't get lost.
Read anywhere
The summary is on your phone, on the train or at home.
Peace of mind
You know nothing important slipped by today.
How it works
What happens, step by step
Every evening it lists the emails you received in Gmail today.
AI writes a short summary, with emails that need a reply listed first.
The summary is sent to you on WhatsApp.
Before it runs live
- Connect Google through your own Google app (a one-time, 10-minute setup), so it works with your own Gmail
- Connect WhatsApp Business
What you get
Build your own
Need it to work differently?
Your own rules
Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.
Any number of apps
One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.
AI where it helps
Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.
On a schedule or on each event
Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.
Changes you can ask for
- Run it at a different time, more or less often, or only on weekdays
- Change what the AI looks for, or how it writes the result
- Add another app, for example also send it to Slack
- Combine it with other Gmail and WhatsApp Business steps into one automation
Under the hood
The code that runs this automation
from google.oauth2.credentials import Credentials
from googleapiclient.discovery import build
from clickruntime import on_trigger, credentials, http, ai
MY_PHONE = "447700900123"
WA = "https://graph.facebook.com/v20.0/your-phone-number-id/messages"
def wa(to, text):
http.post(WA, headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {credentials.secret('WHATSAPP_TOKEN')}"},
json={"messaging_product": "whatsapp", "to": to, "type": "text", "text": {"body": text}}).raise_for_status()
gmail = lambda: build("gmail", "v1", credentials=Credentials(credentials.connection("google", "work")), cache_discovery=False).users()
@on_trigger
def run(event):
ids = gmail().messages().list(userId="me", q="in:inbox newer_than:1d", maxResults=50).execute().get("messages", [])
if not ids:
wa(MY_PHONE, "No new emails today.")
return {"emails": 0}
lines = []
for m in ids:
msg = gmail().messages().get(userId="me", id=m["id"], format="metadata", metadataHeaders=["From", "Subject"]).execute()
head = {h["name"]: h["value"] for h in msg["payload"]["headers"]}
lines.append(f"{head.get('From', '')[:60]} | {head.get('Subject', '')[:100]} | {msg['snippet'][:150]}")
summary = ai.generate("\n".join(lines), max_output_tokens=400,
system="Summarise today's emails in up to 10 short lines. List ones needing a reply first, then the rest grouped.").text
wa(MY_PHONE, f"📬 Today's email ({len(ids)}):\n{summary.strip()}")
return {"emails": len(ids)}FAQ
Common questions
Does it include newsletters?
How long is the summary?
Does it change anything in Gmail?
What permissions does it need?
Does it need AI?
How many runs does it use?
Can I change how it works?
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