Read-only personal admin assistant over work email and calendar
What they built
u/TripleSecretSquirrel manages a dozen or more projects at a time and struggles to track all the context, so they built an LLM-powered administrative assistant.
It has read-only access to work email and calendar, ingests emails into a personal knowledge wiki, surfaces to-dos, sends reminders, summarizes email and drafts replies on request.
Results & numbers
- Described as extremely cheap in compute
Gotchas
- Constantly being reworked, so it's rarely actually running
Do it yourself
- Give the assistant read-only IMAP and CalDAV credentials
- Summarize each new email into a per-project wiki page
- Run a daily job that extracts action items and due dates into reminders
- Keep drafting on request only, never auto-send
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