PERSONAL PRODUCTIVITY

Route triaged email by urgency: urgent ones ping Slack, the rest file quietly

Classifies each inbound email by urgency and routes accordingly — urgent asks become a ClickUp task and an immediate Slack ping to the owner.

CategoryPersonal Productivity
Enginesim
Difficultyintermediate
Triggerevent
Steps6
Setup~15 min

How it runs

The automated pipeline, trigger to output.

  • TriggerNew email in monitored Gmail mailboxGmailGmail
  • ActionScore urgency/importance, propose owner + due dateOpenAI
  • LogicBranch on urgency: alert path vs quiet path
  • ActionCreate ClickUp task with priority, owner, due dateClickUpClickUp
  • ActionDM the owner in Slack (urgent path only)Slack
  • OutputLabel Gmail thread as routedGmailGmail

What it does

Not every actionable email deserves an interruption. This flow grades each thread on urgency and importance, then splits the path: time-critical requests get a task plus a direct Slack nudge to the assignee, while ordinary requests are filed into the backlog with a calculated due date and no notification.

When to use it

Use it when a flood of legitimate requests still needs prioritizing, and you want only the genuinely urgent ones to break focus. Ideal for team leads who own a triage inbox but don't want every email to fire an alert.

How it works

  1. 1A new email lands in the monitored Gmail mailbox.
  2. 2An OpenAI step scores urgency and importance and proposes a task title, owner, and due date.
  3. 3A logic branch checks the urgency score. High-urgency threads take the alert path; everything else takes the quiet path.
  4. 4Both paths create a ClickUp task with the parsed owner and due date, setting priority from the score.
  5. 5For high-urgency tasks only, a Slack action direct-messages the owner with the task link.
  6. 6The flow labels the Gmail thread as routed so it is processed exactly once.

Set it up

What you configure once, before turning it on.

  1. 1
    Connect GmailRead, draft, send, label.
  2. 2
    Connect OpenAIModels, embeddings, files.
  3. 3
    Connect ClickUpDocs + tasks + chats in one workspace.
  4. 4
    Connect SlackChannels, DMs, threads, mentions.
  5. 5
    Set each agent's modelWe leave models unset so you pick the tier — fast + cheap, or top-quality.
  6. 6
    Tune it to your dataEdit the prompts, filters, and field mappings so it matches how your team works.
  7. 7
    Test, then turn it onRun once against a sample, confirm the output, then enable the trigger.

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