Integrations
Connecting to Gmail
Read and search your inbox, triage it, and draft replies. Sending always waits for you.
Most people's real backlog is not their task list, it is the thirty emails they have half-read. This is the connection that clears it, by drafting the replies for you to review in one pass instead of thirty.
One connection covers four products
Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive and Google Docs share a single Google Workspace grant, so connecting any one of them connects all four. Google Sheets is separate.
What it can do
- Search and read mail. Messages, threads, and attachments.
- Draft. Replies and new messages, held for you rather than sent.
- Send, once you approve it.
- Organise. Labels, archiving, trashing and untrashing.
- Work across several inboxes if you have connected more than one account.
How to connect
Open Integrations
app.ginicomputer.com → Integrations → Google Workspace. Or ask Gini for something that needs your mail and it hands you the link in the thread.
Authorise with Google
Google's consent screen lists exactly what is granted. That screen is the real contract, so read it rather than ours.
Come back
Gini can now work from your inbox.
Revoke from Integrations, or from Google's own connections page, at any time.
What changes anything
| Operation | What it does | Changes anything? |
|---|---|---|
| List and search messages | Find mail by query | No |
| Get message or thread | Read one in full | No |
| Get attachment | Read a file on a message | No |
| List drafts and labels | See what exists | No |
| Create or update a draft | Prepare a reply | No |
| Send a message | Goes to a real person | Yes, and it stops for approval |
| Send a draft | Same | Yes, and it stops for approval |
| Modify a message | Apply or remove labels, archive | Yes |
| Trash or untrash | Move mail out of the inbox | Yes |
| Create a label | Add a label to the account | Yes |
Drafting is not sending, and the distinction is load-bearing here. A job that ends in drafts never reaches an approval, which is why "draft it, don't send" is the phrasing to reach for.
What it's great for
- The backlog you are behind on. "Draft replies to everyone waiting on me since Friday. Don't send." A stack of drafts you review in one pass beats writing them one at a time, and it is the single most common thing people use this for.
- Triage with an opinion. "What actually needs me today, and what can wait?" A list sorted by urgency is more useful than a list sorted by arrival.
- Answering from mail. "What did we tell Acme about pricing?" The answer is usually in a thread nobody can find.
- Chasing. "Who has not replied to me in over a week, and about what?"
- Turning mail into work. Read the thread, file the issue in Linear, update the record in HubSpot.
Example routine
A morning brief, which is the Gmail routine people actually keep:
- Every weekday at 8:00, read what arrived overnight.
- Say what needs a reply today, and who has been waiting longest.
- Draft replies to anything routine, and leave them in drafts.
- Post the summary in a DM, not a channel.
Good to know
- It is your inbox, not the company's. Gini reads your mail with your access. It cannot see a colleague's inbox because they are on the same domain, and connecting gives your team nothing of yours. See How connections work.
- Several accounts behave as one inbox. If you have connected a personal and a work account, "my email" means both. Name the account when you mean only one.
- Standing instructions work. "Never email anyone without showing me first" holds across runs. The approval gate is there anyway; the instruction stops the job from getting that far.
- Labels are a safe first write. If you want to try letting Gini organise rather than just read, labelling and archiving are reversible in one click.
Troubleshooting
Gini can't find an email you can see
Check which account. With several connected, a search Gini scoped to one will not find mail in another. Say which, or say "across all my accounts".
It keeps asking me to reconnect
Google expires tokens aggressively, and some Workspace admin policies revoke third-party apps on a schedule. See Fixing a broken connection. If it is weekly rather than occasional, tell us.
An email did not send
It is waiting on an approval, or the run stopped before reaching it. Scroll the thread for the card. Nothing sends by timeout.