Summarize Gmail Emails with Gemini and Send an HTML Action Digest

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        "content": "## Workflow overview\n\n### Who it\u2019s for\nAnyone who wants a fast, structured inbox review (founders, freelancers, support, ops).\n\n### What this workflow does\n- Runs every 12 hours (Schedule Trigger).\n- Fetches Gmail emails received after a calculated timestamp (now - 12 hours).\n- For each email: normalize fields \u2192 filter Inbox \u2192 AI extracts summary/action/priority \u2192 build a Gmail \u201cOpen message\u201d link using **rfc822msgid** (Search Link).\n- Aggregates all results and sends one HTML digest email.\n\n### Recommended AI model\nUse **Gemini 2.5 Flash** for fast, reliable structured output (if you don\u2019t see the model, pick the closest available model in your account/region).\n\n### Required setup before running\n- Add your own Gmail OAuth2 credentials (Fetch Emails / Send Summary / No Emails).\n- Add your own LLM credentials (Google Gemini Chat Model). [web:170]\n- Set the recipient email: update send To in \u201cSend Summary\u201d and \u201cNo Emails\u201d (or replace with a variable in a Config/Set node).\n\n### Requirements\n- Gmail account + Gmail OAuth2 credentials in n8n.\n- Google Gemini API credentials.\n\n### Customizing this workflow\n- Change the lookback window (12 hours \u2192 24 hours, etc.).\n- Adjust the AI prompt rules (priority/action style).\n- Customize the HTML digest design.\n- Remove the Inbox filter if you want other labels.\n"
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        "content": "### Build digest & send:\nCreates Gmail deep link per email, aggregates results, and sends one HTML digest."
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        "content": "### Fetch & prepare emails\nFetch Gmail emails since receivedAfter, then normalize fields (From/To/snippet/messageId) and keep Inbox only."
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        "content": "### Triggers\nRuns every 12 hours (schedule) or via manual test. Both paths go into the same flow."
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        "content": "### AI extraction: \nGemini analyzes each email and outputs structured JSON: summary, action, priority, recipient."
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        "content": "### Config & Time window\n**Config (edit me)**  \nSet `recipientEmail` here. All Gmail nodes use it.\n\n**Time window**  \n\"Now - 12h\" timestamp for Gmail filter. Edit `hours: 12` \u2192 `24` for daily."
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        "content": "### Empty run handling\nIf: any emails found?\nChecks if emails exist. True \u2192 process. False \u2192 send \"No new emails\" HTML.\n### Send \"no new emails\" email\nUses\u00a0recipientEmail\u00a0from Config. Predictable schedule behavior.\n### Build Gmail link\nBuild Gmail \"Open message\" link\nExtracts\u00a0TO\u00a0email \u2192 builds\u00a0rfc822msgid:\u00a0deep link. Opens exact email in Gmail."
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        "text": "=You are a highly efficient AI assistant specializing in email analysis and data extraction.\n\nYour primary task is to analyze the provided email data and use the `Structured Output Parser` tool to format the extracted information. Adhere strictly to the field descriptions below.\n\n**Field Extraction Rules:**\n\n* **sender_email**: From the 'From' input, you MUST extract ONLY the email address part (the text containing '@'). Ignore any names.\n    * Example 1: If 'From' is `Email_example`, the output for \"sender_email\" MUST be `premium@linkedin.com`.\n    * Example 2: If 'From' is `Email_example`, the output for \"sender_email\" MUST be `jobs@mail.xing.com`.\n* **action**: Describe the main action required from the email in a clear, concise phrase. If no specific action is needed, use \"Review\" or \"No action required\".\n* **priority**: Assign a priority based on these strict criteria:\n    * `high`: For urgent requests, time-sensitive approvals, meeting invitations, or critical security alerts.\n    * `normal`: For general updates, collaboration notes, non-urgent questions, or standard notifications.\n    * `low`: For newsletters, promotional content, social media notifications, or automated non-critical reports.\n* **summary**: Write a brief, one-sentence summary of the email's main point.\n* **recipient**: The recipient(s) of the email. Write just the email address.\n  Example: \"To\": \n\"\\\"Email_example\\\" \" or \"TO\": \"Email_example\" or \"To\": \n\"\"\n\nyou will recive **Snippet** as html and you have to find the email body from it.\n**Input Email Data:**\n\n* **From**: `{{ $('If: any emails found?').item.json.From }}`\n* **To**: `{{ $('If: any emails found?').item.json.TO }}`\n* **Snippet**: `{{ $('If: any emails found?').item.json.html }}`\n\nNow, analyze the data and call the `Structured Output Parser` tool with the correctly extracted values.",
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          }
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}

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This template is for anyone who wants a quick, structured inbox review (founders, freelancers, support, operations) without reading every email.

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