Let’s tell you how to use Gemini to check your Gmail emaillook at your emails and tell you which ones may have arrived from specific senders. This is an interaction with which you can check Gmail without entering Gmail, simply by asking Gemini whatever you want about it.
Let’s start the article by explaining to you how to set up Gmail so Gemini can read itbecause you will have to make sure you have certain options activated. And then we will go on to give you two or three examples of what you can do with it.
Set up Gmail so Gemini can read it
The first thing you have to do is configure Gmail to give Gemini permission to access the content of the email. To do this, go to the Gmail website and press the settings button with the gear icon at the top right. In the options that open, click on See all settings above all.
This will open the page with all the Gmail settings options. In it, inside the tab General the one you go to by default, you have to activate both options Smart featureswhich will appear to you together.
And finally, the first time you want to check Gmail with Gemini you will have to connect Google Workspace. This is something that Gemini himself will tell you, and you will only have to click on Continue when I ask you to proceed.
Use Gmail on Gemini
To use Gemini with Gmail, just open AI and ask you a question related to email. You can use the term email or Gmail, for example, and Gemini will understand the request you make. You can make queries both on the web and in the app Gemini on any device.
For example, you can ask it to tell you the emails you have received today, and it will make a list with a module below that you can click on to open each one. You can also ask about emails from a specific senderso that it can search for those specific ones for you.
You can ask him for specific types of mail so that Gemini also checks the relevant folders. For example, you can ask about emails you have in your Spam folder.
You can also ask for a type of mail that is not tagged with itbut that Gemini can identify due to its context. In this case, it will find it for you and even give you a short summary. And if you ask him later for a summary, then he will summarize it in a more extensive way so that you don’t have to read it all.
You can also ask other questions related to the content of an email. Furthermore, in the event that The email includes a PDF documentGemini will also be able to read and summarize its content for you.
There are still other features that are not available. For example, you can’t ask Gemini to act on content in Gmail, such as deleting what you have in your Spam folder. However, little by little it will add functions.
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