Take Control of Your Gmail Inbox with AI Tools from Ask Steve

Tame Your Gmail Inbox

We added Gmail integration and several new AI Tools to help you manage the flood of your incoming email. These Tools only show on Gmail pages. Gmail Tools are available on the FREE Standard plan. Watch the videos below for details.

Folder Tools

All these Tools work on the first 100 unread email threads in the folder that you're currently looking at. The Tools can all be edited or copied. The Tools have access to the following data for each email thread:

• Subject
• Sender
• Snippet (the 1-2 line preview of the email that shows)
• Labels (the labels on the email thread)

XPERIMENTAL: Add labels to unread emails

You tell Ask Steve what you want, and it will try to find the threads you specify and label them accordingly. This is marked XPERIMENTAL because it can be hit or miss. This tool may work better with reasoning models like Gemini 2.5 Flash, OpenAI o3, DeepSeek R1, etc.

XPERIMENTAL: Archive unread emails

You tell Ask Steve what you want, and it will try to find the threads you specify and archive them. This tool may work better with reasoning models like Gemini 2.5 Flash, OpenAI o3, DeepSeek R1, etc.

List specific unread emails

You could try to figure out the exact boolean search to get the subset of emails that you want (if it would even be possible), or now you can just ask for what you want using natural language. Clicking on any of the list items navigates directly to that email. This tool may work better with reasoning models like Gemini 2.5 Flash, OpenAI o3, DeepSeek R1, etc.

Summarize unread emails

A user-customizable summary of the first 100 unread emails.

Email Thread Tools

All these Tools work on the email thread that you're currently looking at. The Tools can all be edited or copied. The Tools have access to the following data for each email thread:

• Subject
• Sender
• Body (the contents of the most recent email in the thread)
• Snippet (the 1-2 line preview of the email that shows)
• Labels (the labels on the email thread)

Draft a reply

Give Ask Steve your writing instructions and writing samples, as well as what you want your reply to include. It puts the drafted reply right in the reply box. It remembers the writing instructions and samples, so you only need to enter them once. And you can keep iterating until it writes the way you want it to. Works much better than Gmail's built in reply drafting which generates really generic stuff.

Save Events in Google Calendar

Run on any email or text selection to create Google Calendar events. Works much better than the "Create event" button in Gmail which can't do this at all.

Summarize this email thread

You customize what you want in your summary, instead of having to use what Gmail provides (if Gemini is even available).

Writing Tools

Get help writing, rewriting and editing right in the Gmail compose window with the Writing Helper.

Already Have Ask Steve Installed and Want to Add the Gmail Tools?

You can install all the Gmail tools from the Tool Packs page. Ask Steve needs to be installed and enabled.

Questions or Problems?

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