Morning Email Rollup

# Morning Email Rollup

Automatically generates a daily summary of important emails and delivers it to Telegram at 8am Denver time.

## Setup

**Required:** Set your Gmail account email: ```bash export GOG_ACCOUNT="[email protected]" ```

Or edit the script directly to set the default.

## What It Does

- Runs every day at 8:00 AM (configurable timezone) - **Shows today's calendar events** from Google Calendar - Searches for emails marked as **important** or **starred** from the last 24 hours - Uses AI (Gemini CLI) to generate natural language summaries of each email - Shows up to 20 most important emails with: - 🔴 Unread indicator (red) - 🟢 Read indicator (green) - Sender name/email - Subject line - **AI-generated 1-sentence summary** (natural language, not scraped content) - Delivers formatted summary to Telegram

## Usage

### Manual Run ```bash # Default (10 emails) bash skills/morning-email-rollup/rollup.sh

# Custom number of emails MAX_EMAILS=20 bash skills/morning-email-rollup/rollup.sh MAX_EMAILS=5 bash skills/morning-email-rollup/rollup.sh ```

### View Log ```bash cat $HOME/clawd/morning-email-rollup-log.md ```

## How It Works

1. **Checks calendar** - Lists today's events from Google Calendar via `gog` 2. **Searches Gmail** - Query: `is:important OR is:starred newer_than:1d` 3. **Fetches details** - Gets sender, subject, date, and body for each email 4. **AI Summarization** - Uses Gemini CLI to generate natural language summaries 5. **Formats output** - Creates readable summary with read/unread markers 6. **Sends to Telegram** - Delivers via Clawdbot's messaging system

## Calendar Integration

The script automatically includes today's calendar events from your Google Calendar using the same `gog` CLI that queries Gmail.

**Graceful Fallback:** - If `gog` is not installed → Calendar section is silently skipped (no errors) - If no events today → Calendar section is silently skipped - If events exist → Shows formatted list with 12-hour times and titles

**Requirements:** - `gog` must be installed and authenticated - Uses the same Google account configured for Gmail (set via `GOG_ACCOUNT` environment variable)

## Email Criteria

Emails are included if they match **any** of: - Marked as **Important** by Gmail (lightning bolt icon) - Manually **Starred** by you - Received in the **last 24 hours**

## AI Summarization

Each email is summarized using the Gemini CLI (`gemini`): - Extracts the email body (cleans HTML/CSS) - Sends to `gemini --model gemini-2.0-flash` with a prompt to summarize in 1 sentence - The summary is medium-to-long length natural language (not scraped content) - Falls back to cleaned body text if Gemini is unavailable

**Important:** The email body is passed as part of the prompt (not via stdin) because the gemini CLI doesn't handle piped input with prompts correctly.

**Example output:** ``` 🔴 **William Ryan: Invitation to team meeting** The email invites you to a team meeting tomorrow at 2pm to discuss the Q1 roadmap and assign tasks for the upcoming sprint. ```

## Read/Unread Indicators

- 🔴 Red dot = Unread email - 🟢 Green dot = Read email

All emails show one of these markers for visual consistency.

## Formatting Notes

**Subject and Summary Cleanup:** - Extra quotes are automatically stripped from subject lines (e.g., `""Agent Skills""` → `Agent Skills`) - Summaries from Gemini are also cleaned of leading/trailing quotes - This ensures clean, readable output in Telegram/other channels

## Cron Schedule

Set up a daily cron job at your preferred time: ```bash cron add --name "Morning Email Rollup" \ --schedule "0 8 * * *" \ --tz "America/Denver" \ --session isolated \ --message "[email protected] bash /path/to/skills/morning-email-rollup/rollup.sh" ```

Adjust the time (8:00 AM) and timezone to your preference.

## Customization

### Change Number of Emails

By default, the rollup shows **10 emails**. To change this:

**Temporary (one-time):** ```bash MAX_EMAILS=20 bash skills/morning-email-rollup/rollup.sh ```

**Permanent:** Edit `skills/morning-email-rollup/rollup.sh`: ```bash MAX_EMAILS="${MAX_EMAILS:-20}" # Change 10 to your preferred number ```

### Change Search Criteria

Edit `skills/morning-email-rollup/rollup.sh`:

```bash # Current: important or starred from last 24h IMPORTANT_EMAILS=$(gog gmail search 'is:important OR is:starred newer_than:1d' --max 20 ...)

# Examples of other searches: # Unread important emails only IMPORTANT_EMAILS=$(gog gmail search 'is:important is:unread newer_than:1d' --max 20 ...)

# Specific senders IMPORTANT_EMAILS=$(gog gmail search 'from:[email protected] OR from:[email protected] newer_than:1d' --max 20 ...)

# By label/category IMPORTANT_EMAILS=$(gog gmail search 'label:work is:important newer_than:1d' --max 20 ...) ```

### Change Time

Update the cron schedule: ```bash # List cron jobs to get the ID cron list

# Update schedule (example: 7am instead of 8am) cron update <job-id> --schedule "0 7 * * *" --tz "America/Denver" ```

### Change Summary Style

Edit the prompt in the `summarize_email()` function in `rollup.sh`:

```bash # Current: medium-to-long 1 sentence "Summarize this email in exactly 1 sentence of natural language. Make it medium to long length. Don't use quotes:"

# Shorter summaries "Summarize in 1 short sentence:"

# More detail "Summarize in 2-3 sentences with key details:" ```

### Change AI Model

Edit the gemini command in `summarize_email()`: ```bash # Current: gemini-2.0-flash (fast) gemini --model gemini-2.0-flash "Summarize..."

# Use a different model gemini --model gemini-pro "Summarize..." ```

## Troubleshooting

### Not receiving rollups ```bash # Check if cron job is enabled cron list

# Check last run status cron runs <job-id>

# Test manually bash skills/morning-email-rollup/rollup.sh ```

### Missing emails - Gmail's importance markers may filter out expected emails - Check if emails are actually marked important/starred in Gmail - Try running manual search: `gog gmail search 'is:important newer_than:1d'`

### Summaries not appearing - Check if `gemini` CLI is installed: `which gemini` - Test manually: `echo "test" | gemini "Summarize this:"` - Verify Gemini is authenticated (it should prompt on first run)

### Wrong timezone - Cron uses `America/Denver` (MST/MDT) - Update with: `cron update <job-id> --tz "Your/Timezone"`

## Log History

All rollup runs are logged to: ``` $HOME/clawd/morning-email-rollup-log.md ```

Format: ```markdown - [2026-01-15 08:00:00] 🔄 Starting morning email rollup - [2026-01-15 08:00:02] ✅ Rollup complete: 15 emails ```