ChatGPT & Claude (MCP)
How to Automate Gmail with ChatGPT
ChatGPT can do a lot more with Gmail than read your email. Add the Carly plugin and it can work on your inbox as mail arrives. It drafts replies to important emails in your voice, reading the whole thread first and saving the draft for you to review, so nothing goes out until you send it. It files every new email with one of the Gmail labels you already use, so promos and updates stop piling up in your primary inbox, and it can file by precedent too: a new email gets the label you gave that sender last time. Give ChatGPT your documents or website as a knowledge source and the drafts pull from them and cite them. Newsletters, SaaS alerts and automated mail get skipped, anything unclear stays where it is, and no label is ever created and nothing deleted when filing.
Step by step
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Add the Carly plugin to ChatGPT
Open the Plugins tab on the left, search for Carly and add it.
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Draft replies to important emails
Look up Carly AI, open the Workflows tab, and copy the Draft replies to important emails prompt. Send it to ChatGPT and it sets the workflow up. ChatGPT reads each thread and writes a reply in your voice, saved to Drafts. It never sends.
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Make the drafts sound like you
Ask ChatGPT to use your documents or your website as a knowledge source. It pulls from them and cites them when it writes back.
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Get promotional email out of your inbox
Use the Triage & file every email prompt. Every new email gets one of your existing Gmail labels, so marketing and deal blasts leave your primary inbox. Want them gone for good? The Trash promotional email prompt removes them and can unsubscribe you too.
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File by precedent
Use the File by precedent prompt. A new email gets the label, folder or category you gave that sender before, and it stays in your inbox.
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Browse more workflows or write your own
The Workflows tab shows what else people run. Or just type the workflow you want into ChatGPT.
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