Morning Email Rollup

# morning-email-rollup

Morning Email Rollup

Automatically generates a daily summary of important emails and delivers it to Telegram at 8am Denver time.
Setup
export GOG_ACCOUNT="[email protected]"
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
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
Checks calendar - Lists today's events from Google Calendar via gog
Searches Gmail - Query: is:important OR is:starred newer_than:1d
Fetches details - Gets sender, subject, date, and body for each email
Formats output - Creates readable summary with read/unread markers
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
Extracts the email body (cleans HTML/CSS)
The summary is medium-to-long length natural language (not scraped content)
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)
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 \
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=$(gog gmail search 'from:[email protected] OR from:[email protected] newer_than:1d' --max 20 ...)
# By label/category
IMPORTANT_EMAILS=$(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 Routing
# Current: balanced (speed/quality tradeoff)
"prefer": "balanced"
# Prefer quality (uses best available LLM)
"prefer": "quality"
# Prefer price (uses most cost-efficient model)
"prefer": "price"
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
If key is missing, the script falls back to a plain text excerpt
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

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