Inbox Triage
Automate inbox triage with Nebula — flag urgent emails, archive newsletters, and draft replies to routine messages every morning hands-free.
What you'll build
Every morning, Nebula goes through your inbox, flags anything urgent, archives newsletters and low-priority messages, and drafts replies to emails that need a quick response — so you start the day with a clean, prioritized inbox instead of a wall of unread messages.
What to say
Go through my latest emails. Flag anything urgent, archive newsletters, and draft replies to any messages that need a quick response.
Reading inbox... Found 23 new emails since last triage.
Categorizing emails by sender, subject, and content...
Done! Here's your inbox summary:
Urgent (3) — Flagged and moved to top
- Client request from Sarah at Acme Corp — contract review due today
- Outage alert from PagerDuty — API latency spike at 2:14 AM
- CFO asking for updated revenue numbers before noon
Draft replies ready (4)
- Vendor follow-up from DataTools — drafted a confirmation of next Thursday's call
- Team lunch poll from Jordan — drafted a vote for Friday
- Meeting reschedule from Lisa — drafted acceptance of the new time
- Intro request from Mark — drafted a polite redirect to your scheduling link
Archived (12) — Newsletters, marketing emails, and automated notifications
FYI (4) — Left in inbox, no action needed
- Weekly product metrics report
- Design team update
- Two GitHub notification threads
Adjust this to match how you organize your inbox. You can tell Nebula to sort by sender, priority, or topic instead.
What happens
Nebula reads your recent emails
Nebula connects to your email and pulls all new messages since the last triage. It reads the sender, subject line, and body of each email to understand what it is.
Emails are categorized by priority
Each email is sorted into one of four buckets: urgent (needs action today), needs reply (a quick response is expected), FYI (informational, no action needed), and archive (newsletters, marketing, and automated notifications).
Urgent emails are flagged
Anything that looks time-sensitive — client requests with deadlines, outage alerts, messages from leadership — gets flagged and moved to the top of your inbox so you see it first.
Newsletters and noise are archived
Marketing emails, automated notifications, and newsletters are archived automatically so they don't clutter your inbox. Nothing is deleted — you can always find them later.
Draft replies are prepared
For emails that need a quick response (meeting confirmations, scheduling requests, simple follow-ups), Nebula drafts a reply for you to review and send. You stay in control — nothing is sent without your approval.
Make it automatic
Do this every morning at 8 AM.
Creating scheduled trigger: every day at 8:00 AM UTC. Task: read inbox, categorize emails, flag urgent, archive newsletters, draft replies for routine messages.
Your trigger is live. Every morning at 8 AM, I'll triage your inbox and have it organized before you start your day. You can pause or edit this from the Triggers page.
Nebula creates a scheduled trigger that runs this task automatically each morning. You can view, pause, or delete it from the Triggers page in the sidebar.
Connect your integrations
This recipe requires email access. Connect your Gmail account from the Integrations page so Nebula can read, flag, archive, and draft replies on your behalf.
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