Surface every action item in a mail thread.
What details does it capture?
One thread or a week of mail - Jarvis (getjarvis.eu), a desktop AI assistant, finds the action items either way. Connect Gmail or Outlook, or leave the thread on screen, and ask what needs doing. It lists who owes what and by when, with the message each item came from. Jarvis screenshots your current view, retrieves the full thread through the connector, and routes the extraction to a frontier model for accuracy. The result is a list of who-owes-what-by-when, with the source message linked. Persistent memory remembers your project names and stakeholder roles across sessions. OAuth tokens are encrypted with AES-256-GCM at rest. You can pipe items straight into Linear, Todoist, Asana, or Apple Reminders through Jarvis's other connectors in the same prompt — "find action items and add them to my Linear backlog".
One thread or a week of mail - Jarvis (getjarvis.eu), a desktop AI assistant, finds the action items either way. Connect Gmail or Outlook, or leave the thread on screen, and ask what needs doing. It lists who owes what and by when, with the message each item came from. Jarvis screenshots your current view, retrieves the full thread through the connector, and routes the extraction to a frontier model for accuracy. The result is a list of who-owes-what-by-when, with the source message linked. Persistent memory remembers your project names and stakeholder roles across sessions. OAuth tokens are encrypted with AES-256-GCM at rest. You can pipe items straight into Linear, Todoist, Asana, or Apple Reminders through Jarvis's other connectors in the same prompt — "find action items and add them to my Linear backlog".
Pulling action items from a thread is roughly the easiest hard task for a modern LLM: the model needs to identify imperative or commitment language ("I'll send the deck by Friday", "can you review the contract?"), attribute each item to a person, and extract any explicit deadline. frontier models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google both score above 90% on standard action-item benchmarks when the source text is clean email. Jarvis runs the extraction over a complete thread, not individual messages, so it catches handoffs ("actually, let's have Maria do it instead") and dropped balls (an action item assigned in message 3 that got buried under 12 follow-ups). The output is structured: owner, action, deadline, source-message-link. You can copy it, dump it into a doc, or pipe it into a tracker through a connector.
Install Jarvis (Mac, Windows, Linux), sign in, and connect Gmail in Settings → Integrations using OAuth. Open the email thread you want to extract from. Press Cmd+/ on Mac or Ctrl+/ on Windows. Type "pull action items from this thread" or be broader: "pull action items from every thread with the Acme team this week". Jarvis screenshots your screen, fetches the threads via the Gmail API, and returns a structured list within 6-12 seconds. Each item shows owner, action, deadline (if explicit), and a link back to the source message. To pipe into a tracker: ask "add my action items to Linear under the Q3 project" — Jarvis uses the Linear connector to create the tickets in one prompt. Same flow works for Todoist, Asana, Apple Reminders, ClickUp, or Notion databases when those connectors are also enabled.
