Daily Email Assistant
Reads the day's mail, summarises it, and drafts replies — arriving on Telegram with buttons to approve or edit before anything is sent. The point is to keep the decision human and the labour automatic.
The problem
A lot of daily mail, most of it needing a short repetitive reply — and the time goes to reading and sorting rather than deciding.
The approach
The real experiment here is not summarising, it is **where the automation stops**. Making it send is the easy part; making it stop and ask is the hard one. So I built it to propose and never send until I approve.
What I built
Twenty-one n8n nodes: read the day's mail, summarise it, draft suggested replies, then send it to Telegram with approve-or-edit buttons. A wait node holds the run open until my decision arrives.
The result
Still experimental; not yet in daily use. I keep it here because the decision — human decides, machine works — matters more than whether it is finished.
- Stack
- n8n · Gmail API · Telegram Bot API · OpenAI
- Role
- A personal experiment — 21 nodes
- Disciplines
- Automation
- Client
- Anonymised by agreement
The easy part of automation is making it send. The hard part is making it stop and ask before it sends.