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Reading & Searching Inbox

How to check your inbox, search for specific emails, filter by sender or subject, and get summaries.

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Checking Your Inbox

Ask your AI employee to check your inbox and it will give you a summary of recent messages. You can ask for unread messages, messages from a specific sender, messages about a particular topic, or messages from a specific time period. The AI reads your emails through IMAP and presents them in a clear, digestible format. It can summarize long email threads, highlight action items, and identify urgent messages that need your attention.

Morning inbox check

Get a quick overview of your inbox.

You say:
What's in my inbox this morning?
Sarudo responds:
You have 8 new emails since last night. Here are the highlights: 1) Sarah Chen (ACME Corp) replied to your proposal — she has two questions about pricing. 2) Your accountant sent the Q1 tax documents for review. 3) Three newsletter emails (TechCrunch, Morning Brew, Product Hunt). 4) A meeting invitation from David for Thursday at 2 PM. 5) A support ticket from a customer about login issues. Would you like me to handle any of these?

Searching for Emails

You can search your inbox by sender, subject, date range, or content. Just describe what you are looking for in natural language. For example, "find the email from the lawyer about the NDA" or "show me all emails from ACME Corp in the last two weeks." The AI searches across all your email folders including inbox, sent, and archives. It presents matching results with sender, subject, date, and a brief snippet.

Email Summaries

For long email threads or verbose messages, ask your AI employee for a summary. It will extract the key points, action items, and decisions from the thread. This is particularly useful for threads with many participants where important information gets buried. You can ask for summaries of individual emails, entire threads, or all emails from a specific sender or project.

Ask for "action items from my emails this week" to get a consolidated list of everything that needs your attention across all email threads.

Filtering and Prioritizing

Your AI employee can help you prioritize your inbox by categorizing emails by urgency, topic, or sender importance. Ask it to separate client emails from newsletters, flag emails that need immediate responses, or identify emails that contain invoices or contracts. This intelligent filtering saves you from manually sorting through dozens of messages every day.