In partnership with
Your inbox is a to-do list other people wrote for you.
You open it, and twenty minutes vanish just deciding what to deal with.
Most of it doesn't even need you.
Here's how to hand the sorting and the first drafts to Claude.
Now a word from today's sponsor:
Six people doing the work. Your headcount is one.
Your finance close runs in #finance. Stripe and QuickBooks reconciled, runway updated, posted Sunday night without you asking.
Engineering review lands in #eng. Viktor pulled the open PRs, left comments on auth-refactor, flagged a dependency blocking api-pagination.
Campaign brief lands in #growth: Meta CPA up 18%, recommendation to pause broad match, a draft landing page already deployed for the variant test.
You hired him on day zero. He lives in Slack and Microsoft Teams alongside your contractors and investors, connects to 3,000+ tools, pushes back when you ship something dumb.
"Viktor is now an integral team member, and after weeks of use we still feel we haven't uncovered the full potential." Patrick, Director, Yarra Web.
Okay, here's the move.
In about ten minutes, Claude can triage your inbox and draft the replies that matter. You read and send.
Two ways to do it.
The fast way (paste).
Copy your unread subject lines and senders into Claude, then paste this:
You're my executive assistant. Here are the emails in my inbox:
[paste the subject lines and senders, or the emails themselves]
Sort them into three piles: needs a reply from me today, can wait, ignore. For the "today" pile, draft a short reply in a warm, direct tone, under 80 words each.You get a sorted list and ready-to-edit drafts in one pass.
The hands-off way (connect Gmail).
Claude can read your real inbox directly.
Open the + menu in Claude, go to Connectors, and connect Google Workspace. Sign in, grant access, done.
Now you skip the pasting. Just ask: "What in my inbox needs me today? Draft replies for the ones that do."
One honest limit: Claude drafts, it does not send. Every reply lands in your Gmail drafts for you to check and send. That is the point. You keep the final call.
Do this every morning and your inbox stops running your day.
Pair it with a Scheduled Task and the triage is waiting before you sit down.
Wiring Claude into your real inbox and calendar, so it works from your actual tools, is a core part of what I teach in Claude Mastery.
The full setup, step by step, no tech background needed.
One quick question before you go.
How many emails are sitting unread in your inbox right now? Hit reply, I'm curious.
Talk soon,
Zephyr
