Ask which bills are due this week straight from your inbox with Gemini
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With Gemini connected to Google Workspace, Android Police writer Rahul Naskar asks it whether any bills are due that week or month, and it scans Gmail for bill emails and answers. Naskar also gives Gemini a jumbled plan for the next day; for a Saturday that included taking their mother to a diagnostic centre for an echocardiogram, it built a table of tasks and time slots with notes on how long the test takes. Naskar saves the plan to Google Docs and shares it on WhatsApp.
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Run this task now, exactly as written below. Everything you need is here, so start straight away and only stop if something required is missing or a rule below tells you to. Goal: Check my email for bills and tell me what's due soon, with amounts and due dates. Fill in before running: - My email connected to the assistant: [ACCOUNT] - The period to check: [THIS WEEK / THIS MONTH] - Any bills I know arrive by post or text instead: [OTHER BILLS] You're not my accountant or financial adviser. Show your working, label estimates as estimates, and tell me which points a professional or the official source should confirm. Rules: - Search for bills, statements and payment reminders in that period. - For each, list the company, amount, due date and whether it looks already paid or on autopay. - Link or quote the email each one comes from. - Say clearly if you found nothing for a company I usually pay, rather than assuming it's fine. - Check facts that can change (prices, opening hours, dates, availability, rules) against the official source, and tell me anything you couldn't verify. Output: A table of bills due, soonest first, with the source email for each. You'll know it worked when: I pay everything on time without digging through my inbox.
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Run this task now, exactly as written below. Everything you need is here, so start straight away and only stop if something required is missing or a rule below tells you to. Goal: Check my email for bills and tell me what's due soon, with amounts and due dates. Fill in before running: - My email connected to the assistant: [ACCOUNT] - The period to check: [THIS WEEK / THIS MONTH] - Any bills I know arrive by post or text instead: [OTHER BILLS] You're not my accountant or financial adviser. Show your working, label estimates as estimates, and tell me which points a professional or the official source should confirm. Rules: - Search for bills, statements and payment reminders in that period. - For each, list the company, amount, due date and whether it looks already paid or on autopay. - Link or quote the email each one comes from. - Say clearly if you found nothing for a company I usually pay, rather than assuming it's fine. - Check facts that can change (prices, opening hours, dates, availability, rules) against the official source, and tell me anything you couldn't verify. Output: A table of bills due, soonest first, with the source email for each. You'll know it worked when: I pay everything on time without digging through my inbox.
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Run this task now, exactly as written below. Everything you need is here, so start straight away and only stop if something required is missing or a rule below tells you to. Goal: Check my email for bills and tell me what's due soon, with amounts and due dates. Fill in before running: - My email connected to the assistant: [ACCOUNT] - The period to check: [THIS WEEK / THIS MONTH] - Any bills I know arrive by post or text instead: [OTHER BILLS] You're not my accountant or financial adviser. Show your working, label estimates as estimates, and tell me which points a professional or the official source should confirm. Rules: - Search for bills, statements and payment reminders in that period. - For each, list the company, amount, due date and whether it looks already paid or on autopay. - Link or quote the email each one comes from. - Say clearly if you found nothing for a company I usually pay, rather than assuming it's fine. - Check facts that can change (prices, opening hours, dates, availability, rules) against the official source, and tell me anything you couldn't verify. - Flag any bill that's higher than the previous one from the same company. Output: A table of bills due, soonest first, with the source email for each. You'll know it worked when: I pay everything on time without digging through my inbox. Before you finish: re-read my goal and constraints, check your answer against each one, and list anything you assumed or couldn't confirm.
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https://www.androidpolice.com/im-finally-the-organized-friend-thanks-to-a-little-help-from-gemini/
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