ChatGPT & Claude (MCP)
How to Get Claude to Text You About Important Emails
Claude can text you. Add the Carly connector and one plain sentence sets it up. Carly checks for new mail about every 5 minutes across all your inboxes and texts you only when something needs you soon: a real person waiting, a deadline, money at risk, a live problem. Newsletters, receipts, notifications and mass sends stay quiet, and each text says who the email is from and what they need. Two more prompts are worth setting up at the same time: an hourly summary of the important emails you missed, and draft replies to the emails that matter, written in your voice and saved to Drafts so nothing goes out until you send it. It works with Outlook and Gmail, as many accounts as you want. To change anything, go back to Claude and give it feedback.
Step by step
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Connect Carly in Claude
Press the plus sign, then Connectors, then Manage connectors, and search for Carly. Once it's connected, Claude can read all your inboxes and text you.
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Turn on text alerts
Tell Claude: "Text me if I get an email in my email accounts that looks important." Texts go to the phone number on your Carly account.
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Get an hourly summary
Tell Claude: "Email me every hour about what emails I received that look important." You get one email, most urgent first, with one line per email. If nothing important came in, it says so.
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Have Claude draft your replies
Ask Claude to draft replies to the emails that seem important. They're written in your voice and saved to Drafts. Newsletters, SaaS alerts and automated mail are skipped, and you review and send each one yourself.
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Change it whenever you want
Go back to Claude and give it feedback. That's all it takes to tweak any of these.
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