Email and calendar
Alex works with your own Google account. He can find messages, read your schedule, draft emails and propose calendar events. Writing always goes through a card you approve.
Before you start
Connect Gmail and Google Calendar once in Settings → Integrations. How →
- Sending only is the default. Alex can send from your address but can't read your inbox.
- Inbox reading is a separate tap: Also let workers read this inbox. Without it, Alex can't search your email and says so in one line.
- With several Gmail accounts connected, Alex searches across all of them.
What Alex can do
| You ask | Alex does |
|---|---|
| "Find the last email from Sam" | Searches your inbox (Gmail search words work, like from: or subject:) and tells you what it found |
| "What's on my calendar this week?" | Lists your upcoming events with the other attendees |
| "Find the meeting I had with Priya last week" | Looks back up to 30 days |
| "Email Sam about Friday" | Drafts the email and shows a card |
| "Put lunch with Sam on Thursday at noon" | Shows a card to add the event to your own calendar |
| "Put that reply in my Operating Feed" | Shows a one-tap card; the item is in your feed once you tap Add |
Alex can also read files in your connected Google Drive when you ask ("check my budget sheet").
The approval card
When Alex wants to send an email, he shows a card with the recipients, the subject and the full text, and two buttons: Approve and Don't send.
- Nothing is sent until you tap Approve. The email comes from your own address.
- Tapping Approve twice sends one email. The second tap says "Already done."
- Alex checks that every recipient came from somewhere real: your own words, your contacts or investor list, or your Gmail. If an address wasn't, he stops and asks.
- For a calendar event, the card has Add and Don't add. The event goes on your own calendar and no one else is invited.
Alex says "sent" or "added" only when the result says so. If the card is still waiting, he says it is waiting.
If something isn't connected
Alex tells you what is missing in one line and takes you to Settings. A sign-in that expired needs Reconnect on its row.
Not yet
- Sending a document for signature from Alex's chat. Signatures waiting for you appear under Signatures in the left menu.
- Reading attachments from an email. Alex can read files in your Drive.