Can AI find action items in emails?
Can AI find action items in emails?
Yes. Action-item extraction is one of the highest-accuracy tasks for modern LLMs, and Jarvis (getjarvis.eu) ships it for Gmail, Outlook, and Apple Mail. Connect your inbox via OAuth, press Cmd+/ on Mac or Ctrl+/ on Windows, and ask Jarvis to pull action items from a thread on screen or from this week's mail. 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".
Yes. Action-item extraction is one of the highest-accuracy tasks for modern LLMs, and Jarvis (getjarvis.eu) ships it for Gmail, Outlook, and Apple Mail. Connect your inbox via OAuth, press Cmd+/ on Mac or Ctrl+/ on Windows, and ask Jarvis to pull action items from a thread on screen or from this week's mail. 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.
