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ChatGPT Email Triage: Sort 200 Unread Emails and Draft Replies

Paste unread emails → ChatGPT sorts by urgency, summarizes, and drafts replies

BeginnerStepsPromptTip
Who
People with a large inbox who need to quickly identify priority replies
You get
Emails sorted into 'immediate reply / important but not urgent / can be ignored', each important email summarized in one sentence, deadlines identified, and short natural replies drafted
You need
ChatGPT

Constraints

Open a ChatGPT conversation, paste the email contents, send the prompt, and review the sorted results and drafts. No additional tools or setup required.

What they did

RoundtableSpace posted on X sharing a method for handling a large volume of unread emails with ChatGPT: paste emails into ChatGPT and use a prompt to sort by urgency, summarize, and draft replies.

How it went

The author reported that this prompt can sort emails into three groups and generate summaries with drafts (author_report). No specific throughput numbers, accuracy rates, or user feedback were provided in the source.

Worth knowing

Source is an aggregator account, not a first-hand individual test; privacy and data handling when pasting emails are not addressed; 'use a connected inbox' is not explained; exercise caution with sensitive emails. Not tested by this site; results may vary.

Steps

  1. Safety check before the first real run

    Before the first real run, test with sample data and confirm with a human before any send/write/delete to external systems.

  2. Paste emails and send the prompt

    In a ChatGPT conversation, paste the full contents of the emails you want to process, then send the prompt below. If your ChatGPT version supports a connected inbox, you may authorize direct access instead.

    Execution prompt · Source text。ChatGPT message input, sent together with pasted email contents

    Go through these emails and sort them into 3 groups: needs an immediate reply, important but not urgent, and can be ignored. Summarize each important email in one sentence, identify any deadlines, and draft short, natural replies for the ones that need action.

Prompt you can copy

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Go through these emails and sort them into 3 groups: needs an immediate reply, important but not urgent, and can be ignored. Summarize each important email in one sentence, identify any deadlines, and draft short, natural replies for the ones that need action.

Paste the full email contents, then send the English prompt from the step to run.

Source

把邮件粘给 ChatGPT：分出需要行动/可忽略并起草回复 · RoundtableSpace · X · 2026-10-24T15:45:00.000Z

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