Gmail
Email requests become reviewable suggestions.
Connect Gmail and Kernel reads new mail and your replies. When a thread asks something of you, it drafts a task, an event, or a reply for you to review. Analysis never changes your mailbox.
Gmail
Search mailHi Sam,
Thanks for the walkthrough on Friday. Could you send over the revised phase 2 estimate by Thursday? We'd like it before the board meeting.
Also, are you free Wednesday at 2 PM for a short call with our CFO? And any idea what hosting will cost at the new volume?
Thanks, Dana
Working setTasks3
Task suggestion91%Dana ItoPhase 2 estimateSend the revised phase 2 estimateNorthwind RoboticsDue Oct 860 minDiscard ×Review ›Event suggestion84%Dana ItoPhase 2 estimateCall with Dana Ito and the CFOStarts · Oct 7, 2:00 PMNo guestsDiscard ×Review ›Reply suggestion88%Dana ItoPhase 2 estimateAnswer Dana about Wednesday at 2 PMEmail · Phase 2 estimateProposed time is freeDiscard ×Review ›Highlights
Tasks, events, and replies
One email can yield a task with a due date, an event you'll attend, and a reply to “are you free?”, each reviewed on its own.
Your replies count
“Let me get back to you” turns an earlier question into a follow-up task, quoting both the request and your promise.
Done work closes itself
When a later reply shows the work was sent, the card reads Looks done, or is removed with Undo when Kernel is sure.
Events
Appointments you attend become events.
An event is suggested when you'll attend a dated appointment: you're invited, you arranged it, or it's your own matter, even when you're only copied. Meetings between other people are left out.
- Each distinct appointment becomes its own suggestion
- Several proposed times make one card, with every option listed
- An appointment already on your calendar isn't suggested again
Hello Alex, could you confirm Thursday, October 8 at 10:00 AM for the signing of 12 Birch Lane at our office? Sam is welcome as co-buyer.
Event suggestion82%Signing at Dubois NotairesWhy Kernel suggested this 
DateThu, Oct 8Time10:00 – 11:00 AMCalendar sam@rivera.studioGuestsNo guestsRejectCreate event & send 0 invitationsExisting work
Follow-ups land on the task you already have.
When an email is about work that already has a task, the suggestion offers Add to NWR-142 instead of a duplicate. When Kernel is sure, it adds the update to the task itself.
- Create new task instead stays one click away
- Updates appear in the task's Activity, marked Kernel Inbox
- Links in the email can be attached to the task
Task suggestion76%Ari SatoRe: Webhook retriesAlert when webhook retries fail“The backoff looks good on staging. Could we also get an alert when retries fail?”Ari is asking for alerts on the same retry work as NWR-142.
Create new task insteadGood to know
- On connect, Kernel imports the last 48 hours of Inbox mail and your replies, then checks every five minutes.
- Gmail access is granted separately from Google sign-in, through Connect Gmail in Settings → Inbox.
- Analysis never changes your mailbox; the only email Kernel sends is a reply you reviewed and sent.
- Files shared in a message, like a screenshot or a quote, are read with it and can travel to the task.
- Each account syncs on its own, so one that needs reconnecting doesn't hold up the others.
- Delete imported data removes an account's retained mail; accepted tasks and events stay yours.
