Recipe Save Email To Doc

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Save a Gmail message body into a Google Doc for archival or reference.

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Saves a Gmail message body into a Google Doc for archival or reference.

What it does: This recipe walks through locating a Gmail message with a search query, retrieving its content, creating a Google Doc, and writing the email body into that document. The result is a Google Doc holding the saved email text for archival or later reference. It is an instruction-only recipe and ships no scripts.
When to use it: Use it when you want to preserve a specific Gmail message in Google Docs rather than leave it only in the mailbox. It fits archival or reference needs, such as keeping a record of an important update from a colleague.
Requirements: Requires the gws command-line tool plus the gws-gmail and gws-docs skills, and access to Gmail and Google Docs accounts. No scripts are included; the steps are instructions only.

Save a Gmail Message to Google Docs

PREREQUISITE: Load the following skills to execute this recipe: gws-gmail, gws-docs

Save a Gmail message body into a Google Doc for archival or reference.

Find the message: gws gmail users messages list --params '{"userId": "me", "q": "subject:important from:[email protected]"}' --format table
Get message content: gws gmail users messages get --params '{"userId": "me", "id": "MSG_ID"}'
Create a doc with the content: gws docs documents create --json '{"title": "Saved Email - Important Update"}'
Write the email body: `gws docs +write --document-id DOC_ID --text 'From: [email protected] Subject: Important Update

[EMAIL BODY]'`

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