A software engineer tested Lindy as an executive assistant for two weeks; it triaged his Gmail, sent a morning briefing and drafted replies, and he says email time fell from about 45 to about 12 minutes a day.
- First reported
- mejba.me · 10 Apr 2026
- Added
- 13 Oct 2026
- Source checked
- 13 Oct 2026
What they did
He connected Gmail, Google Calendar and Notion at setup. Lindy read incoming mail, sorted it by priority, archived low value messages, flagged urgent items in a morning text summary, and drafted replies using past emails, calendar events and notes. By the second week most of his email time was spent approving drafts.
What happened
The poster says daily email time dropped from about 45 minutes to about 12, and he trusted it to run without close watching after about four days.
Keep in mind
One draft stated a project timeline he had never agreed to, which he caught before sending. Integrations beyond Gmail, such as a custom CRM, were noticeably less reliable, and heavy tasks use up credits fast.
Try it with your agent
Each night, go through new email in <your inbox>, rank it by priority, archive newsletters and low value messages, and draft replies to anything that needs one using my past emails and calendar for context. Send me a short summary at <time> with urgent items first. Never send a reply or commit to dates without my approval.
Replace the <angle brackets> with your own details.
Original source
mejba.meUser storySomeone who uses the agent described their own setup. Figures are theirs.
Tools for this kind of work
- RepoRun Gmail, Drive, Calendar and Sheets from your agent with gws
- RepoTurn PDFs, Word, Excel and slides into Markdown with MarkItDown
