Ask the assistant about your application mail

Your inbox has been sorting itself for a while: every message that arrives gets a label — interview invitation, rejection, offer, assessment — and the ones we can match get attached to the application they belong to. Until now you could only see that by opening the inbox and scrolling.

The assistant can read it now. Ask “what’s happening with my applications?” and it answers from the labels rather than by reading your mail to you: how many invitations are waiting, how much has been rejected, what nothing has judged yet. Then you can narrow it — “show me the interview invitations” — and it lists them with who wrote, when, and which application each belongs to.

It can also do the tidying that piles up:

• Work through the suggestions. Mail is only attached automatically when the match is unambiguous; everything else waits for you to confirm. The assistant can walk that queue.
• Fix a link, or attach a message to the right application.
• Record an application from a message. When an employer writes about something you never tracked, it can create that application and attach the mail in one step — dated by the message, not by today, so the elapsed-silence count stays honest.

Two things it deliberately cannot do. It never marks your mail read — the unread count is yours, and an assistant sweeping the backlog would quietly zero it. And it cannot send mail, from here or anywhere else. That second one is not an oversight: a recruiter’s email is text written by someone else, and the safest answer to a message that tries to instruct the assistant is that there is nowhere for it to send anything.

Available to everyone signed in, wherever your mail comes from — Gmail, your freehire mailbox, or pushed in by your own mail client.