recent-emails_skill

Overview

This skill lists the most recent emails received, sent, drafted, or starred in your Gmail account. It defaults to the last 24 hours but accepts custom timeframes and returns timestamped entries with senders/recipients, subject lines, short summaries, status markers, and clickable Gmail links.

How this skill works

The skill constructs time-based Gmail search queries for Inbox, Sent, Drafts, and Starred, then reads thread details to extract metadata and content. It deduplicates starred messages, generates ~30-word summaries, builds direct Gmail links, sorts all results by recency, and outputs a structured dataset ready for the presentation micro-skill.

When to use it

• Quickly review activity from the last 24 hours (default) or a custom timeframe
• Check recently sent messages or drafts you created in a specific period
• Surface starred or flagged items across folders without browsing labels
• Exclude newsletters or promotions when you need actionable emails only
• Prepare a summary of recent email activity before meetings or reports

Best practices

• Specify a clear timeframe (e.g., last 3h, last 7d) to limit results and speed up retrieval
• Request 'no newsletters' when you want only personal or transactional messages
• Use the Starred filter to prioritize flagged items and avoid duplicates
• Confirm your timezone if you need precise timestamp context other than GMT+8
• Review the short summaries first to triage priority items before opening full threads

Example use cases

• Show me emails from the last 24 hours to find new action items
• List starred emails from the past week to prepare follow-ups
• Give me sent messages from the last 3 days to verify recent outreach
• Display drafts created in the last 48 hours to finish composing
• List recent emails but exclude newsletters and promotions for cleaner triage