Triage email by voice while you walk
Use voice commands to sort email, draft replies, and capture follow-ups while you are away from your desk.
- What they did
- Allie Miller used ChatGPT’s voice mode with Codex on a paid plan to work through email while walking with EarPods in. After setting broad permissions and a sticky note on their Mac, they spoke instructions to skip newsletters, handle client, contract, invoice, and bug messages, and then archive, delete, or star items as needed. The agent also drafted replies and wrote action items into the note, with some follow-up work extended into Notion, Slack, and day/week/month reviews.
- How it went
- When they got back, they felt exercised and happy, then checked the sticky-note task list and the drafted email replies at their desk. The session hit a 90-minute voice cutoff, and the phone overheated.
- Tips
- This setup depends on always-on permissions so the agent can keep moving through routine blocks. Plan for the voice session to end after 90 minutes, and be ready to start a new thread if you need to continue.
Try it yourself with Codex
Go through my [email account] messages from the last [time period]. Skip newsletters and other low-priority mail. For each important email, tell me in one short sentence what it is, draft a reply I can review, and list any action items in [task list or note]. Before you archive, delete, star, send, or otherwise change anything irreversible, pause and ask for my approval. Read the summary to me out loud so I can decide by voice.
Fill in the [brackets]. Agents can make mistakes, so review anything before it is sent, paid or deleted.
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