Connecting Gmail

Dustav is an email agent, and the shortest way to put it to work is to connect your Gmail. Once it's connected, Dustav does a read-only pass over your inbox once a day and surfaces the handful of emails worth doing something with — the receipts, the order confirmations, the school email with three dates in it — and offers to do the entry for you. Nothing lands on your calendar or in a table until you say so.

What "connect Gmail" actually does

• It's read-only. Dustav can read your mail; it never sends, replies, deletes, or moves anything.
• It reads on a schedule — once a day, not a live firehose — and only surfaces what looks worth a look. Everything else it leaves alone.
• It reads under your connection, and the AI runs on your Anthropic key (see Bring your own key). We're not a middleman sitting on your inbox.
• It's per person. In a household or a shop, each member connects their own Gmail, and their inbox stays theirs — only the rows and events you choose to keep are shared.

Connecting it

1. Open Settings and choose Connect Gmail.
2. Google asks you to sign in and approve read-only access. (You're handing access to your own app connection; you can revoke it any time, from here or from your Google account.)
3. That's it — the first daily read happens on its own, and you can also trigger one on demand with Run now.

Reviewing what it finds

Each day, Dustav posts a short digest of what it surfaced. Anything worth acting on shows up in the Review tab, where each item has two buttons:

• Review with Dustav — Dustav opens the email, reads it in full (attachments included), and proposes what to do: file the rows into a table, or drop the dates onto the calendar. You confirm, correct, or wave it off in the conversation.
• Dismiss — not worth keeping. It goes away.

Nothing is filed automatically from a surfaced email. The daily read is there to notice things; you decide what's kept.

Rules run on it automatically

If you've taught Dustav an email rule — "every Square sign-up, save the student, class, and amount" — then when the daily read finds a matching email, it files the rows into that table for you, and tells you it did. That's the hands-off path: set the rule once, and the receipts pile up in a table you can export without you lifting a finger.

Not on Gmail?

You don't have to connect anything. You can forward email to a private Dustav address from any provider instead — it reads it the moment it lands. Connecting Gmail is the convenient option; forwarding is the works-anywhere one.

Turning it off

Disconnect Gmail any time in Settings. Dustav forgets the connection immediately and the daily read stops. The tables, events, and facts you already built stay with you.