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Built something that pulled action items out of client emails automatically — still had to do the annoying part myself

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Wrote a quick script hitting the gmail api that scanned my freelance client's emails and pulled out anything that looked like a task or deadline into a list. that part actually worked fine, no complaints there. the problem was every single item still needed me to go check if it was already in my st…

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  1. 2026-09-13 23:05 · r/AI_Agents
    Built something that pulled action items out of client emails automatically — still had to do the annoying part myself

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