# Let AI see your calendar, to-do lists and email

Published: 2025-09-11T00:00:00.000Z
Updated: 2025-10-31T00:00:00.000Z
Canonical: https://wow.pjh.is/journal/let-ai-see-your-calendar-and-email

If you're using AI to help you [plan your days and weeks](https://wow.pjh.is/journal/week-plans-and-reviews), I recommend giving it access to your calendar, to-do lists, and perhaps your email.

With that, your conversations can include questions like:

* What's new in my email?
* What *must* I do today?
* What's most important this week?

To do this, configure connectors in [ChatGPT](https://chatgpt.com/#settings/Connectors) and [Claude](https://claude.ai/settings/connectors). Both support Gmail, Google Calendar and Asana. Other to-do software is not yet supported.

If you're using Asana, see [here](https://wow.pjh.is/journal/create-asana-tasks-claude).

## Appendix 1. Cost:benefit of granting access to your email

It's reasonable to worry about giving LLMs access to your email. Personally I think the cost:benefit here acceptable. Here's a BOTEC:

> **Cost: $200 / year** \
>
> 1/50 annual probability of a data breach that I'd pay $10,000[^1] to avoid.
>
> **Benefit: $5,000 / year** \
>
> $100 per week = $5,000 / year.

**Sensitivity:** if the data breach risk were 1/10, it'd remain mathematically ok, but deontic considerations might rule it out.

**Bottom line:** Try it. Set a reminder to consider disabling it in a month from now, if it turns out you rarely use it.

If you think my numbers are off, please [email me](mailto:wow@pjh.is).

[^1]: If you have $1M+ infohazards in your email, or your LLM chats, it's plausibly not worth enabling any of these connectors for now. But also: you shouldn't have major infohazards in either place.