Daily

Get a daily summary of one label

Once a day you get a short summary of every new email under a label, like Clients.

Runs: Daily
Apps: Gmail
AI: Yes, uses the built-in AI allowance
Access: read

Send this to your assistant

Create a ClickRuntime automation: every morning at 8am, summarise the emails under my Clients label from the last day and post the summary to #clients in Slack.

Paste it into your assistant. It tells you what it will send or change before it runs live.

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Why use it

Why teams use this automation

If you give a Gmail label to your clients, your suppliers or a project, the label quickly becomes a mini inbox of its own, and nobody has time to read forty messages across it every day. Scanning it manually means opening threads to remember what each was about. Meanwhile one client asking a direct question sits in the middle of a long list and waits.

Once a day, the messages in your Clients label from the last 24 hours are collected and their text read. ClickRuntime's built-in AI writes a summary per email, identifying who wrote and what they want, and the combined digest is posted where you choose. You review everything from one place and then open only what needs you.

Account managers, consultants with several clients and project leads who sort mail by label are the typical users.

What you get out of it

Client questions are noticed the same day
A summary line for each message puts a direct question in plain sight, so a client waiting on you is not buried under routine updates in a long list. Quick answers keep clients confident in your service.
Context comes before the reply
Knowing who wrote and what they asked helps you prioritize, so urgent requests are answered first and low-stakes updates wait until the afternoon. That ordering of work prevents small tasks stealing time from big ones.
Two minutes replace twenty
Reading a one-line summary of each message is far quicker than opening every thread, so keeping up with a busy label no longer eats a chunk of each day. Over a month that saves several hours that go back into real work.
Label-based focus
Because the digest covers only the label you pick, personal mail and newsletters are excluded, and it describes exactly the relationships you care about. It is a focused view without personal clutter.
A daily record of client communication
Each digest is a dated snapshot of what clients wrote that day, useful when you must recall what was discussed before a call or settle a question about who said what.

How it works

What happens, step by step

Every day ClickRuntime collects the emails from the last 24 hours that carry one Gmail label, such as Clients.
It reads the sender, subject and content of each one.
AI writes a one-line summary per email and marks the ones that need a reply.
The digest is posted to your Slack channel, such as #clients.

Before it runs live

Connect Google through your own Google app (a one-time, 10-minute setup), so it works with your own Gmail

What you get

RunsDaily

Get a daily summary of one labeltoday, 9:00Succeeded

Slack · #clientsClient emails, last 24h (5) • Acme: approved the homepage copy, wants launch moved to Nov 4 (needs reply) • Northwind: sent September invoice query

Build your own

Need it to work differently?

This template is a starting point. Copy the prompt and change it, or describe a different automation from scratch, with your own conditions, more apps or an AI step. Your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.

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 steps into one automation

Under the hood

The code that runs this automation

This is the Python script that runs each time the automation starts. Your AI assistant writes it for you when you send the prompt, and you allow each step in your assistant. To change how the automation works, describe the change to your assistant and it updates the script for you. For every function it can use, see the script reference.

labelled_email_digest.pyexample

from google.oauth2.credentials import Credentials
from googleapiclient.discovery import build
from clickruntime import on_trigger, credentials, ai, notify

@on_trigger
def run(event):
    gmail = build("gmail", "v1", credentials=Credentials(credentials.connection("google", "work")), cache_discovery=False)
    msgs = gmail.users().messages().list(userId="me", q="label:Clients newer_than:1d", maxResults=50).execute().get("messages", [])
    if not msgs:
        return {"emails": 0}
    lines = []
    for m in msgs:
        meta = gmail.users().messages().get(userId="me", id=m["id"], format="metadata", metadataHeaders=["From", "Subject"]).execute()
        h = {x["name"]: x["value"] for x in meta["payload"]["headers"]}
        lines.append(f"{h.get('From')}: {h.get('Subject')} – {meta['snippet'][:300]}")
    summary = ai.generate("Summarise these client emails by client, noting anything that needs a reply:\n" + "\n".join(lines),
                          max_output_tokens=600).text
    notify.slack(f"Client emails, last 24h ({len(lines)})\n{summary}", channel="#clients")
    return {"emails": len(lines)}

FAQ

Common questions

Can I pick a different label?

Yes. Any Gmail label works, such as a project name, a supplier group or VIPs. You can also run several digests for several labels, each posted to its own place. Each digest uses the label you set.

Does the digest include messages I have already read?

It includes all messages with that label from the past day regardless of read status, because the purpose is to give you a complete picture of that day. Anything outside the 24 hour window is not repeated.

Where is the digest posted?

You choose the destination, such as Slack, an email to yourself or both. The message lists each email with its sender, a short summary and a link, so you can open the original in one click.

What permissions does it need?

read. Nothing else in your accounts is used.

Does it need AI?

Yes. It uses ClickRuntime's built-in AI, so you don't need an OpenAI or Anthropic key. Every plan includes a monthly AI allowance.

How many runs does it use?

One run each time it runs (daily). Checks that find nothing to do and stop right away aren't counted.

Can I change how it works?

Yes. Describe the change to your AI assistant, for example a different schedule, channel or filter. It updates the automation, tests it and tells you what changed.

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