💼 Work
8. Morning inbox digest
The job: One summary at 8am: what arrived overnight, what needs you, what can wait.
Every weekday at 8am, summarize emails received since 6pm yesterday. Format: 🔴 needs a reply today (with a one-line draft I can approve), 🟡 FYI worth knowing, ⚪ everything else in one line each. Skip newsletters, promotions and notifications. Keep the whole digest under 300 words.
🔌 Needs: Gmail — connect in the Muse app first (setup guide).
What Muse will do:
- Scan emails received since 6pm yesterday, every weekday at 8am
- Sort into needs-reply-today, FYI, and everything else
- Draft one-line replies for the urgent items
- Skip newsletters, promotions, and notifications
- Keep the whole digest under 300 words
Why it works: a strict output format (and word cap) prevents the classic failure mode: an "executive summary" longer than the inbox itself.
Common failures:
- No word cap makes digests longer than the inbox — keep the 300-word limit
- A missing skip-list floods the digest — always exclude newsletters and promotions
- Loose time windows cause duplicates — pin the exact overnight window
Prompt variations:
- Add a Monday edition covering the whole weekend
- Pair the digest with today's calendar conflicts
- Ask for a voice-style briefing instead of triage bullets
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