Google Gemini Can Summarize Your Emails in Gmail. Should You Use It?

Artificial intelligence we are now busy tackling some of the biggest problems facing humanity: Accelerating drug development, tackling cancer detection, and finding solutions to climate change. However, none of these issues are undoubtedly a concern as Google has set up its Gemini AI bot.

Ideally, the job should stay on top of your inbox. Gemini is now part of Gmail on the web and mobile devices, and as well as using it to find the right words in your emails, you can find it to shorten your long emails and threads.

Here I’ll show you how these snapshot tools work and what else Gemini can do for you—and report how reliable it is so far. One caveat, though: Currently, Gemini on Gmail is only available if you or your employer pay for Google One AI Premium ($20 per month), or a Google Workspace account.

Get Gemini Snapshots in Gmail

There are several ways to get Gemini shortcuts in Gmail, if the feature is enabled in your account. Most of them can be accessed through the Gemini logo, which is a distinctive black star shape. On the web, click the Gemini button in the upper-right corner of Gmail to reveal a side panel. There, you can see summaries of your entire inbox, or of specific threads you’ve opened.

In Gmail for Android and iOS, the Gemini button appears in the upper right corner when viewing a list of emails, or in the top center when viewing a specific thread. It’s simple, there’s something Summarize this email button that appears when you view a single email or a series of emails.

That Summarize this email button is an easy way to get started, but you can also tell Gemini to “summarize today’s emails,” “summarize this week’s emails,” “summarize my unread emails,” or “summarize the emails I received last month”—whatever other lines. After Gemini spends a moment thinking, you’ll get an answer on the screen, along with follow-up questions you might want to ask. (For example, you can ask for a long summary.)

The results will be presented as a series of bullet points, with Sources below: Click or tap these sources to see the individual emails the information was extracted from. Using the icons associated with responses, you can also copy text elsewhere, give a thumbs-up or thumbs-up for a Gemini response, or clear the AI ​​chat history.

Ask Gemini More Questions on Gmail

There is more to Gemini than the acronyms.David Nield

I’m focusing mainly on Gemini’s shortcut capabilities in Gmail here, but there are many other commands you can explore. In fact, you can ask Gemini almost any question you like about what’s in your inbox, and it will at least try to provide an answer—it combs through gigabytes of data in your emails for answers.