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:

export GOG_ACCOUNT="your-email@gmail.com"

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

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

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:

cron add --name "Morning Email Rollup" \
  --schedule "0 8 * * *" \
  --tz "America/Denver" \
  --session isolated \
  --message "GOG_ACCOUNT=your-email@gmail.com 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):

MAX_EMAILS=20 bash skills/morning-email-rollup/rollup.sh

Permanent:

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

MAX_EMAILS="${MAX_EMAILS:-20}"  # Change 10 to your preferred number

Change Search Criteria

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

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:boss@company.com OR from:client@example.com 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:

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:

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():

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

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:

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