Use DeepSeek to Classify Your Gmail

Relay.app screenshot of: Use DeepSeek to Classify Your Gmail
Relay.app screenshot of: Use DeepSeek to Classify Your Gmail

If you want to take advantage of DeepSeek-R1's advanced reasoning to help manage your Gmail, this AI workflow is a great place to start.

It will run whenever you get a new email, ask DeepSeek-R1 to analyze whether the email needs a reply, and apply a "Needs Reply" label if it does.

Steps in this workflow

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Email received
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Prompt Deepseek R1 Reasoner
3
Stop if
4
Add "Needs Reply" label to email

How it works

Relay.app screenshot of: Trigger
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Email received
App Gmail
Trigger Email received
Every workflow starts with a trigger. When the triggering action is detected, usually an action in another app, a new run of the workflow is kicked off.
Documentation
descriptionTriggers 101
Relay.app screenshot of: Step 2: Prompt Deepseek R1 Reasoner
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Prompt Deepseek R1 Reasoner
Action Prompt Deepseek R1 Reasoner
Relay.app’s built-in AI actions, Custom Prompt steps and mini Agents make it easy to leverage AI in a predictable, controlled way.
Prompt used
Please read the attached email carefully and decide whether I need to reply. If I need to reply, output "Reply" otherwise output "Other".
Documentation
descriptionAI steps
descriptionPrompt tips
Relay.app screenshot of: Step 3: Stop if
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Stop if
Action Stop if
Relay.app screenshot of: Step 4: Add "Needs Reply" label to email
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Add "Needs Reply" label to email
Action Add label to email
Documentation
descriptionActions 101