What can Gemini do in Gmail?

Summarize email with Gemini

• On your computer, open Gmail.
• In the top right corner, click Ask Gemini.
• In the side panel, select a suggestion or type your own prompt.
• Select a suggestion
  • Choose from the list of suggestions.
  • For more options, select More suggestions.
  • At the bottom, in the prompt box, replace the sample text with the information you want.
  • Press Enter.
• Enter a prompt in Gemini
  • At the bottom, in the prompt box, enter a prompt.
  • Press Enter.
• Optional: Delete your history
  • Click More options.
  • Clear history.

Tip: To avoid losing your history, copy the suggestion into an email, because you will lose your chat history when you:

• Refresh your browser.
• Close and reopen Gmail.

Explore Gemini in Gmail
Ask Gemini	Open Gemini.
More options	Clear your recent Gemini history and ask for more suggestions.
Expand	Make Gemini larger.
Collapse	Return Gemini to its original size.
Close	Close Gemini.
Clear history	Remove all generated text and images that you haven’t inserted into the document yet.
More suggestions	Find more suggestions from Gemini.
Copy	Copy a suggestion.
Retry with Google Search	Search Google for more information about your request or question.
View more	See more of Gemini’s response.
View less	Minimize Gemini’s response.
Good suggestion	Give positive feedback on a Gemini response.
Bad suggestion	Report an issue with a Gemini response.
Gem	Help with repetitive tasks. You can create your own or use a pre-made one.

Things you can ask Gemini in Gmail

Summarize an email thread

Gemini can summarize an email thread with more than 2 replies.

• At the top of the email thread, click “Summarize this email”.
• In the side panel, you can also enter a prompt to request a summary.

Examples:

• “Summarize this email.”
• “Create a to-do list for me based on this email.”
• “Explain this email to me like I’m five years old.”

Suggest reply options

Gemini can draft a new email or a reply.

• To get suggested replies:
  • On your computer, open an email thread.
  • Click “Ask Gemini”.
    • At the bottom right, click “Suggest a reply”.
• To draft a new email from scratch, ask Gemini to create the draft.

Examples:

• “Draft an email to announce the launch of Project Clover.”
• “Draft a thank-you note to a colleague for their work on Project Clover.”

Find information from past emails

Gemini gets context from email information in your inbox, such as reservations, packages, and flights, for example:

• “When is my package arriving?”
• “What time is my next flight?”

Search for specific types of emails

Gemini can search for your unread emails, emails from a specific date range, and emails from specific people. Gemini will load the results in a Gmail search. 

Examples:

• “Show my unread emails.”
• “Emails from [person] sent last week.”
• “Show unread emails from this week.”

Find information from your Google Drive files

Gemini can reference Google Drive files and documents. 

Examples:

• “Could you extract the key points from my team’s weekly meeting notes located in my documents?”
• “Summarize my document for Project Clover.”

Tip: To check the sources used by Gemini in the response, select the “Sources” option.

• “How do I edit my email filters?”
• “What is the procedure for generating a label?”

Ask questions from the web

Important: To get answers from the web, it’s best to use phrases like “Search Google”, “Searching the web”, or “Using web search” in your prompt.

Examples of requests to the model:

• “Describe the current weather in my city using web search.”
• “Explain, with information from the web, whether lightning can strike the same place twice.”

Get information about your events

Important: Gemini in Gmail can only provide information about events from your primary Calendar.

• “What is my first meeting tomorrow?”
• “When is the next time I meet with Lori?”

Tip: To specify Google Calendar in your request, add “@Calendar” at the beginning of your prompt. Create events

Important: Keep in mind that Gemini in Gmail can only create events directly in your primary calendar.

• “Schedule a lunch block for tomorrow at noon.”
• “Create a weekly run on Fridays at 8 AM.”
• Based on an open email: “Add this to my calendar”.

Tip:

• To specify Google Calendar in your request, add “@Calendar” at the beginning of your prompt.

Create images with Gemini

Gemini can also generate images in Gmail.

• On your computer, open Gmail.
• In the top right, click “Ask Gemini”.
• In the side panel, create your own prompt.

Example: “Create an image of a dog wearing glasses.”

You can also:

• Change your prompt:
  1. Click “Edit prompt”.
• Send feedback on the images:
  1. At the bottom, click “Good suggestion” or “Bad suggestion”.

Use a Gem

• On your computer, in the top right, select “Ask Gemini”.
• On the right, in the side panel, click “Gems”.
• Click the Gem you want to use.
• Select a custom or pre-made Gem.
• Once ready, start the conversation with a question or a prompt at the bottom.

Tip: To create a Gem, go to gemini.google.com. You can then use your Gem in the Gemini app and in the Gemini side panel. Learn how to use Gems in Gemini apps.