Creating an email summarizer was simpler than expected. However, Claude AI struggled significantly with email decoding and data extraction. While one might assume these processes are well-documented and easy, that doesn’t seem to be the case. Additionally, setting up a new Gmail account proved to be unreliable. I encountered numerous errors at various stages, making me question whether the process actually succeeded. You’d expect Google to handle this smoothly, but unfortunately, I wasn’t so lucky.

Here’s the overall workflow.