Get to Inbox Zero with This Claude Prompt

In this guide, you will build a daily email triage workflow using one Claude Cowork scheduled task. The workflow gives you a sorted inbox each morning, with draft replies waiting for the emails that actually need you.

• Founders and operators who repeat the same morning inbox cleanup every day
• People with lots of newsletter, product, and marketing subscriptions mixed in with real work email
• Claude Cowork users who want a practical scheduled task that saves time on day one

You will create a recurring Claude Cowork task that scans your unread inbox each morning, sorts every message into one of four buckets, drafts replies for messages that need them, and delivers an interactive HTML report you can check off in seconds.

• A clean inbox
• A queue of drafts ready to review and send
• A clear list of anything that needs a human decision
• An interactive HTML triage report with approvals

• Claude Desktop app and Pro Plan ($20/month)
• The Gmail connector enabled in Claude
• A local folder for Cowork to save reports and memory files
• One real morning’s worth of unread email to triage

• After the core workflow is running, wire Gmail filters to your Claude/* labels. You can have Claude/Archive leave the inbox automatically, Claude/Needs-Response and Claude/Needs-Attention get starred, and Claude/Unsub stay visible as a weekend cleanup queue.