School Email Daily Digest
We have two kids in two different schools right now, and the one thing both schools have in common is that they LOVE to send emails to the parents. Some days, I legitimately get 5-6 emails from each of these schools, and it’s just too much.
It clutters up my inbox and my head, and honestly, this volume of school email has the opposite of the intended effect. Instead of reading them all and staying informed, I feel overwhelmed, so I delete them all and read none of them.
Which led me to a simple idea. I wanted to use Google Gemini to clean up this mess and provide me with the just the core information I needed in a daily digest at the end of each day.
So I made this little “School Email Digest” tool, which you can find here.
This is what it does.
Uses Gmail’s simple filtering and labeling system to identify all incoming emails from the kids’ schools automatically.
These emails are immediately archived, so they never even show up in my inbox.
At 5pm each evening, Gemini uses AI to find and summarize the school emails from the day, and puts a simple digest in my inbox with just the basic gist that I need to know.
In the digest, there is a link to the original email if I want to click over to see the full context.
So many school emails 😵💫📧
This may sound technically complicated (API Keys! Google Scripts! GitHub!), but I promise it’s pretty simple. If you can click buttons and follow basic directions, it’s actually quite easy to set this up.