Ask HN: Read‑only LLM tool for email triage and knowledge extraction?
2 by maille | 1 comments on Hacker News.
I’m looking for an LLM‑powered tool to help organize and query my email, but with a strict boundary: it must not write, send, or modify anything. Standard filters miss the nuance of "middle-ground" emails, and existing AI email clients demand full inbox control or try to automate too much. What I’m looking for: - Strictly read‑only triage : Categorizes incoming mail (e.g., “important”, “maybe useful”, “likely promo”) with zero write permissions ie. no sending, moving, deleting, or auto-archiving - Knowledge retrieval : Builds a searchable knowledge base from scattered threads. I want to ask natural-language questions like: “What were all the decisions about Project X across the last 3 months?” - Follow-up & action item detection : surfaces email threads that have stalled and need a nudge, while extracting explicit tasks and deadlines buried in long chains - (optional) Privacy-first : Ideally runs locally or lets me plug in my own API keys to keep the data secure Has anyone seen a tool that focuses entirely on this read-only, triage + retrieval workflow?