Summarize email threads and populate a sheet from an article
Use Comet to condense a long Gmail thread and pull item details from an article into a spreadsheet.
- What they did
- The author opened Gmail inside a Comet browser tab so the agent could read the messages directly, then asked it to condense a long exchange about cancelling a yoga studio membership. For the second task, they kept an article open in one tab and a blank spreadsheet in another, then told the agent to transfer the game details into the sheet.
- How it went
- The email summary was accurate once the author was signed into Perplexity. The spreadsheet initially contained nine games, and after another request it expanded to twelve, even though the article had more than thirty items.
- Tips
- Comet’s browser agent is included with Perplexity’s $200/month Max plan. It can miss entries on long pages, so verify the finished sheet against the source before relying on it.
Try it yourself with Perplexity Comet
Open the Gmail thread about [topic] and give me a short summary that covers who said what, what was agreed, and any next steps I still need to take. Then open [article URL] and extract [fields] for each item into [spreadsheet link]. Stop before any irreversible action, and ask me to approve the summary and the completed rows before making any changes, sending anything, deleting anything, or submitting anything.
Fill in the [brackets]. Agents can make mistakes, so review anything before it is sent, paid or deleted.
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