Google Gemini Can Summarize Your Emails in Gmail. Should You Use It?

Artificial intelligence is now busy dealing with the biggest problems facing humanity: Urgency chemical compositionstruggle cancer diagnosisand find answers to global warming. However, none of these things are as complicated as Google’s launch of its Gemini AI bot.

In particular, the work of stay on top of your box. Gemini is now part of Gmail on the web and on mobile, and in addition to using it to find the right words in your emails, you can also find it to summarize emails and long threads.

Here I will show you how these short tools work and what Gemini can do for you – and show how reliable they are at the moment. One caveat: Currently, Gemini in Gmail is only available if you or your employer is paying for it Google One AI Premium ($20 per month), or for a Google Workspace account.

Get Gemini Summary in Gmail

Gemini can summarize one email, or many of them.David Nield

There are several ways to access the Gemini shortcut in Gmail, if the feature is enabled by your account. Most of them can be found through the Gemini logo, which is a black star shape. On the InternetClick the Gemini button in the upper right corner of Gmail to bring up the side panel. There, you can see a summary of your entire inbox, or the threads you’ve opened.

In Gmail for Android and iOSThe Gemini button appears at the top right if you’re viewing a list of emails, or at the top center if you’re viewing a specific thread. On phones, there are more Briefly describe this email button that appears when you are viewing a single email or a single email thread.

That Briefly describe this email button is the easiest way to start, but you can also tell Gemini to “summarize today’s emails,” “summarize this week’s emails,” “summarize my unread emails,” or “summarize the emails I got last month” — whatever follows. lines. After Gemini takes a moment to think, you will get the answer on the screen, along with the questions you want to ask. (You can ask for a short summary, for example.)

The results will be presented as a list of bullets, and Sources Below: Click or click on the following to view the emails from which the notification was removed. Using the icons next to answers, you can also copy text elsewhere, give a thumbs up or downvote on Gemini answers, or delete AI chat history.

Ask Gemini Other Questions in Gmail

There is more to Gemini than the brief.David Nield

I’ll focus on the Gemini shortcut in Gmail here, but there are many other commands you can explore. In fact, you can ask Gemini almost any question you like about the contents of your inbox, and it will try to answer it – sifting through gigabytes of data in your emails in search of answers.