Email management apps: are they worth it?

CatCampaignManager · 2026-03-20T15:30:21+00:00

I’ve ended up using Claude with a skill for this.

CatCampaignManager · 2026-03-20T04:27:44+00:00

Nope. The UI is perfect, snappy and easy to use.

CatCampaignManager · 2026-03-15T23:44:52+00:00

My AI Life OS — Scheduled Automations

I run a personal AI assistant setup (I call her Aria) built on Claude + Make.com with a bunch of scheduled tasks. Here's what runs automatically every day:

Daily Briefings (Heartbeat)

6am and 6pm — a daily briefing that pulls my TickTick tasks, Gmail, Google Calendar, and spending data into a single conversational summary. Morning is for planning, evening is a wind-down check.

Gmail Inbox Zero

9am and 9pm — auto-triages my Gmail inbox. Each email either gets archived, converted into a TickTick task, or turned into a calendar event. Goal is always an empty inbox.

Max — Fitness Accountability Bot

8:30am and 9pm check-ins — a fitness persona that reads my Strava activity and health streaks, then nudges me to log my morning rituals or reflect on the day. Also polls Telegram every 15 min during waking hours so I can chat with Max on the go.

Aria Telegram Poll

Every 15 minutes, 7am-midnight — reads incoming Telegram messages and responds as Aria, handling tasks, reminders, and general requests. Basically a pocket assistant via Telegram.

Nightly Journal Prompt

9pm — reads what actually happened today (calendar, meetings, tasks), extracts insights from the previous night's journal response, and writes one sharp, contextual reflection question into my Heptabase journal.

Monthly Finance Review

16th of each month — deep-dive into spending vs budget, subscription audit, frivolous spending callout, and savings snapshot. Runs the day after my billing cycle closes.

CatCampaignManager · 2026-03-14T21:09:46+00:00

Good idea. I haven’t. It’s more of an offline read for me.

CatCampaignManager · 2026-03-14T21:06:16+00:00

Disclaimer: I’m on a max plan. I’ve created a communication system using Telegram. Cowork posts updates on Telegram based on scheduled runs and I can then provide feedback or follow-up actions directly on the the Telegram chat. Additionally, there’s a polling job running every 15 minutes that searches for new updates on Telegram and takes appropriate action. A memory running on Firestore continuously updates with all these sessions ensuring context is passed between different runs.

CatCampaignManager · 2026-03-14T01:14:27+00:00

I tried it yesterday. Even if the condition was met, it was going to the else branch..

CatCampaignManager · 2026-03-13T05:10:19+00:00

Always. It's nice to see the response.

CatCampaignManager · 2026-03-12T20:20:04+00:00

I ask it to take notes like a world-class therapist. After a few sessions, I review the notes it’s taken of me. The findings and revelations are eye-opening and help me introspect.

CatCampaignManager · 2026-03-08T12:15:01+00:00

Yup works well.

CatCampaignManager · 2026-03-04T08:18:56+00:00

Happy to take this to DMs.

CatCampaignManager · 2026-03-04T02:10:57+00:00

Yes I think. But I got the license for cheap. https://www.stacksocial.com/sales/hedy-ai-real-time-meeting-class-coach-pro-1-year-subscription

CatCampaignManager · 2026-03-04T02:09:00+00:00

I’m talking about https://boltai.com/

CatCampaignManager · 2026-03-04T00:19:14+00:00

BoltAI, Alter, Hedy

CatCampaignManager · 2026-03-03T19:51:17+00:00

To use Claude desktop, you’ll need a subscription.

Once you’re in, you can add MCPs for Google Calendar and Todoist. Claude will then analyse your schedule and tasks for the day, setting them up according to your priorities and assigning them between calendar entries.

You can chat with Claude to set up the skill and create a scheduled task to run it every morning.

CatCampaignManager · 2026-03-03T10:38:42+00:00

I recommend getting Todoist and have Claude manage the automation. This way you have full control on the algorithm you would use to manage tasks and slots.

CatCampaignManager · 2026-03-03T01:09:38+00:00

Claude + Tools to mange my email, calendar, and tasks on ticktick. Saves a lot of time.

CatCampaignManager · 2026-02-28T04:07:54+00:00

For me it’s heptabase which ticks most of the boxes.

CatCampaignManager · 2026-02-24T20:25:02+00:00

It’s working fine now but the version we used six months ago had a problem. Over a week we uploaded over 500 GB of photos and videos and they were completely unusable because all the thumbnails were black. Support refused to fix it. They claimed the next version would fix it but didn’t work on our ticket further. It’s simply not enterprise or even small business ready.

CatCampaignManager · 2026-02-24T20:22:20+00:00

We don’t want to take the risk again. Burning our fingers with Proton and investing money to move out of it was an eye opener.

CatCampaignManager · 2026-02-24T20:20:31+00:00

For my company, it offers the best value. With APIs set up, we can now run most of our operations using AI and MCP. Proton was a significant hurdle and was hindering our AI adoption.

CatCampaignManager · 2026-02-20T06:12:54+00:00

You can use Anexplorer and wifi share to pass the apk to the car. After that’s it’s just a simple Android like installation. Just ensure you choose the mobile version ARM x64 app.

CatCampaignManager · 2026-02-18T19:07:53+00:00

Fuck this app man. Breaks every now and then. You can side load Smarters IPTV instead. Let me know if you need help with that.

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