I connected Claude to Gmail, and it got to know me scarily well — as well as saving me time
Particularly beloved by coders, Claude is one of the best-known and most widely used AI chatbots around right now. One of its features is that it comes with Connectors: add-ons that let you link the prompt box to third-party services such as Spotify, Uber, and Slack.
Those Connectors include several Google apps, and I've been playing around with Claude's Gmail integration. Email is one of the biggest time sinks in my day, and if Claude could save me a few minutes here and there, it would be genuinely useful.
I was wary of letting an AI loose in my Gmail inbox, and there are reasons to be cautious, but Claude's analysis and actioning worked better than I expected. Here's how you can get started, and how the AI chatbot helped me.
Getting connected
There's obviously a privacy trade-off here: you have to be okay with Claude accessing your emails...
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