Living brief

What the brief contains

The brief opens with a greeting and a caught-up line that tells you where you stand at a glance — how many unread messages you have and how many of them actually need you (for example, “12 unread · 3 needs you”). Below that it lists your top 5 important threads from the primary inbox.

Each of those threads gets a one-to-two line AI summary so you know what it’s about without opening it, plus a reply already drafted in your voice. The draft is there for you to review: open it, edit anything you want, and send. The brief never sends on its own.

Which mail it covers

The brief digests your primary inbox only. Social, Promotions, and Updates are deliberately excluded, so newsletters, notifications, and marketing mail don’t crowd out the messages that need a real response from you.

From that primary inbox it surfaces the five most important threads. The unread and “needs you” counts in the caught-up line reflect the same primary-inbox scope.

When it runs

By default the brief is generated once a day at 8:00 AM. You can choose up to three hours a day, and each one fires in your own timezone. Whenever you want one outside those hours, hit Generate for a fresh brief on the spot.

Where you read it

How the drafts are written

Every drafted reply is grounded in your own writing. The brief uses your voice, your signature, and your client and context brain — the details AI Emaily knows about the people you talk to and the work you’re doing — so the draft reads like something you’d actually send, not a generic template.

Setting it up

1. 1

   Pick your brief times

   Open the Brief view and choose the hours you want a brief — up to three per day, in your timezone. Leave it at the 8:00 AM default if that works.

2. 2

   Connect a channel (optional)

   In Settings → Channels, connect Slack, Discord, or Telegram, toggle on “Morning brief”, and pick the delivery hour to have the brief pushed there.

3. 3

   Read the brief and send a reply

   When a brief arrives, scan the caught-up line and the five summaries. Open a drafted reply, tweak it, and send — or open the full thread if you need more context.

4. 4

   Generate on demand

   Need a brief right now? Press Generate for a fresh digest of your primary inbox any time, without waiting for the next scheduled hour.