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How to Connect Gmail and Outlook to DailyStack for a Unified Email Digest

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April 3, 20267 min read

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Why a unified email digest changes your workday

Most workdays start the same way: open Gmail, scan for anything urgent, switch to Outlook, repeat. By the time you've actually triaged everything, 30 to 45 minutes are gone. If you're juggling a personal Google account alongside a client's Microsoft 365 workspace, it's worse.

The real problem isn't inbox volume. It's that there's no way to see what actually needs your attention across both inboxes without opening every tab yourself.

A unified email digest changes that. Instead of doing the triage, you read one brief that's already done it for you. This article walks through connecting both Gmail and Outlook to DailyStack so your morning starts with a clear picture, not a context-switching spiral.


What DailyStack pulls from Gmail and Outlook

DailyStack reads your connected inboxes once per day at a time you choose. It doesn't poll constantly or send real-time alerts.

From each inbox, the AI looks for:

  • Direct requests — emails where someone is waiting on you for a reply, a decision, or an action
  • Deadlines — messages with explicit dates or time-sensitive language
  • Decisions — threads where your input is needed to move something forward

Automated notifications, marketing emails, calendar invite confirmations, and system alerts are filtered out entirely. None of them appear in your brief.

What's left is a short, scannable list of what actually matters — pulled from your inbox and combined with signals from any other tools you've connected.


How to connect Gmail to DailyStack

The whole setup takes under three minutes from a fresh account.

  1. Sign up or log in at DailyStack. No credit card needed for the 7-day free trial.
  2. From your dashboard, go to Integrations.
  3. Select Gmail from the list.
  4. Click Connect. You'll be redirected to Google's OAuth screen.
  5. Choose the account you want to connect and grant read access.
  6. You'll land back in DailyStack with Gmail listed as active.

DailyStack requests read-only access. It doesn't send emails, modify your inbox, or store raw email content beyond what's needed to generate your brief.

Connecting multiple Gmail accounts

If you work across more than one Google account, you can connect each one separately. Go back to Integrations, select Gmail again, and authenticate with your second account. Both will show as active and both will feed into the same daily brief.

This is handy if you have a personal Gmail alongside a Google Workspace account, or if a side project runs under a separate Google login.


How to connect Outlook to DailyStack

The process is nearly identical to Gmail.

  1. From Integrations, select Outlook.
  2. Click Connect and complete Microsoft's OAuth flow.
  3. Choose the account you want to link and grant read access.
  4. Outlook will appear as an active integration alongside everything else you've connected.

Both personal Outlook accounts and Microsoft 365 work accounts are supported.

Connecting multiple Outlook accounts

Same approach as Gmail. Return to Integrations, select Outlook again, and authenticate with your second account. DailyStack pulls from both and merges everything into one brief.


Running Gmail and Outlook together in one brief

Once both are connected, DailyStack treats them as a single inbox for the purpose of your brief. There's no Gmail section and no Outlook section — the AI reads across both and surfaces what needs your attention, regardless of where it came from.

A decision-required thread in Gmail and a deadline-flagged email in Outlook both show up in the same brief, ordered by relevance.

That's the shift that changes how a morning feels. You stop thinking in terms of "check Gmail, now check Outlook." You read one thing, you know what matters, and you move on.


Scheduling your unified email digest

After connecting your inboxes, head to Scheduling in your DailyStack settings.

You can set:

  • Delivery time — any time that fits your morning. Common choices are 7:00 AM before standup, 8:30 AM as you open your laptop, or 6:45 AM if you want to read before you start commuting.
  • Timezone — DailyStack respects your local timezone, so your brief arrives when you expect it.

The brief lands once. You read it or listen to it, and you're done. No second check-in required.


What the AI filters out — and why that matters

It's worth understanding this before you connect your inboxes, because it explains why the brief stays short even when your inbox is loud.

DailyStack's AI separates signal from noise at the inbox level. Noise includes:

  • Automated notification emails from SaaS tools (GitHub activity digests, Jira comment notifications, Asana task assignments sent via email)
  • Marketing and promotional emails
  • Newsletter subscriptions
  • Calendar invite confirmations and auto-replies
  • System alerts and billing receipts

None of those make it into your brief. The AI surfaces only emails where a human is waiting on you or where a real deadline is at stake.

This matters especially if you also have GitHub, Jira, or Linear connected to DailyStack. Those tools send their own signals through their integrations directly. You don't need the email version of those notifications cluttering your inbox brief as well.


Adding your other tools to the same brief

Gmail and Outlook are the foundation, but the brief gets significantly more useful once you add the rest of your stack.

DailyStack supports one-click connections to Google Calendar, GitHub, Jira, Linear, Todoist, Asana, and Notion — all feeding into the same daily brief.

For a software engineer, a typical brief might include:

  • Two Gmail threads flagged as decision-required
  • One Outlook email with a deadline
  • Three Linear tickets assigned since yesterday
  • A 10 AM calendar event with a missing prep document noted
  • One GitHub PR waiting on your review

That's your full workday context in under a minute of reading. Or listening — if you're on the Pro tier, HD audio makes it easy to get through your brief during a commute.

The Basic plan ($6.58/month billed annually) covers up to five integrations, which is enough for Gmail, Outlook, Calendar, and two more tools. The Pro plan ($20.75/month billed annually) covers unlimited integrations and items, which suits anyone running a full developer stack.


FAQs

Does DailyStack need write access to my Gmail or Outlook? No. DailyStack requests read-only access to both. It can't send emails, delete messages, or change anything in your inbox.

Can I connect a Gmail account and an Outlook account at the same time? Yes. DailyStack supports simultaneous connections to multiple Google and Microsoft accounts. Both feed into the same unified brief.

What happens to emails DailyStack reads? Are they stored? DailyStack doesn't store raw email content. It processes your inbox to generate your brief and doesn't retain the underlying messages.

Will I see duplicate signals if I have GitHub connected and also receive GitHub notification emails in Gmail? No. DailyStack's AI filters out automated notification emails, including those from GitHub, Jira, and similar tools. If you have those tools connected directly, their signals come through the integration — not through your inbox.

How long does it take to get my first brief after connecting Gmail or Outlook? Setup from sign-up to first brief takes under three minutes. Your first brief arrives at the delivery time you set during setup.

What if I want to disconnect Gmail or Outlook later? You can disconnect any integration at any time from the Integrations settings page. DailyStack stops pulling from that account at the next sync cycle.

Is there a free trial before I commit to a paid plan? Yes. DailyStack offers a 7-day free trial with no credit card required. You can connect Gmail, Outlook, and up to five integrations during the trial.


Your workday doesn't have to start with inbox triage. Connect your inboxes once, set your delivery time, and let the brief do the catching up for you. Get started for free at dailystack.ai.

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