Automatically Add AI-Powered Smart Labels to Gmail Emails
This workflow automatically adds predefined AI tags to newly received Gmail emails by intelligently analyzing their content, such as "Partnership," "Inquiry," and "Notification." By integrating OpenAI's GPT-4 model, users can customize tags and classification rules, significantly improving email management efficiency, reducing errors from manual operations, and ensuring the quick identification and categorization of important emails. It is particularly suitable for professionals and teams that need to efficiently handle a large volume of emails.

Workflow Name
Automatically Add AI-Powered Smart Labels to Gmail Emails
Key Features and Highlights
This workflow integrates Gmail with OpenAI’s GPT-4 model to automatically analyze the content of newly received emails and intelligently assign predefined labels such as “Partnership,” “Inquiry,” and “Notification” based on the email content. Users can customize label names and classification rules according to their specific needs, enabling automated email categorization and management.
Core Problems Addressed
Traditional email classification relies on manual operations, which are time-consuming and prone to errors. This workflow leverages AI natural language processing capabilities to automatically understand email content and apply smart labels, significantly improving inbox management efficiency, preventing important emails from being missed, and helping users quickly distinguish between different types of emails.
Use Cases
- Automated classification and management of corporate or personal email inboxes
- Sales teams quickly identifying potential partnership or customer inquiry emails
- Automatic archiving of customer service or notification emails
- Any scenario requiring automatic label classification based on email content
Main Workflow Steps
- Gmail Trigger: Monitor and receive new incoming emails, with customizable polling intervals (e.g., every minute).
- Retrieve Email Content: Extract the email body based on the email ID.
- Invoke OpenAI GPT-4 Model: Send the email content to the AI, which generates a suitable list of labels based on predefined labeling rules.
- JSON Parser: Parse the label structure returned by the AI to ensure correct label formatting.
- Set Label Values: Assign the AI-generated labels for subsequent operations.
- Retrieve All Gmail Labels: Fetch the existing label set within the mailbox.
- Split and Merge Labels: Map and merge AI-generated labels with Gmail labels, preparing label IDs.
- Aggregate Label IDs: Collect all corresponding label IDs.
- Apply Labels to Email: Attach the label IDs to the corresponding email to achieve intelligent tagging.
Involved Systems or Services
- Gmail (email triggering and operations)
- OpenAI GPT-4 (natural language understanding and label generation)
- n8n Automation Platform (workflow orchestration and node management)
Target Users and Value Proposition
- Professionals needing efficient management of large volumes of emails
- Sales, marketing, and customer service teams
- Users seeking to leverage AI intelligence to enhance email processing automation
- Enterprises and individuals with complex and diverse email management requirements
By using this workflow, users can effortlessly achieve intelligent and automated email classification, save time, improve work efficiency, and ensure that important emails are neither overlooked nor misplaced.