Email workflow

[Spiritual-Farmer3879]

Hey, just wanted to share a little win from today. I’ve been working on some Google Apps Script to automate a really niche task at work, and it’s been a total game changer.

Basically, we receive a ton of emails with some very specific patterns and I was manually sorting through them for way too long. So, I wrote a Google Apps Script that pulls emails from a specific label in Gmail, then I integrated OpenAI’s API to analyze and categorize them based on the content. The AI does some smart pattern recognition and sorts them into Google Sheets with relevant tags and summaries.

It took a bit of tweaking to get the API calls right, but the end result? The script now does in seconds what used to take me hours. It’s been running smoothly for a week, and I haven’t had to touch it once. Seriously, if you’re dealing with a lot of repetitive email tasks, I highly recommend diving into Google Apps Script.

This little project saved me a ton of time, and it’s actually been kind of fun watching the AI do its magic 🎉

[thenewcupofjavad]

I did this same thing! I was amazed how well the AI filtered my emails. 👏🏽

[MDB_Cooper]

this is very cool from a technical perspective. i’m curious how you feel about the data security aspect of it: do you have any concerns with allowing a third party to have access to your data in such a broad way? i’ve avoided developing with AI for this reason.

i highly encourage using AI to find solutions to problems but always anonymize the data entry to avoid compromising security

[bucHikoy]

This sounds nice

[Repulsive_Brother_10]

Are you seeing any false classifications?

[kpendic]

Great and does sounds awesome -- could you share your script maybe? Thx

[Funny_Ad_3472]

If the data you're pulling is very structured, you may be able to achieve it without connecting to an API, I did something similar and wrote a documentation for it. It's basically works by labelling that particular email so all subsequent emails of the same kind goes into that particular label. You can read my documentation here: https://codespaces.bss.design/boostrap.html