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