Google’s new Gemini feature will help you plan your day with emails

Google has just rolled out CC, a new experimental AI-based productivity agent powered by Gemini, designed to help you organize your daily life right from your inbox. This new tool comes straight from Google Labs and should manage tasks and appointments.

CC works on the principle that the best way to stay productive is to give yourself a single, clear summary of your day as soon as you wake up. The main function of CC is to send a “Your Day Ahead” summary each morning directly to your inbox. However, it’s not just a summary of your calendar. For this briefing to be truly useful, the agent needs a significant amount of information.

When you sign up, CC connects to your Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Drive. It also points to the wider web for context. I would say the biggest issue here is the level of access you grant. Giving an AI agent the keys to your entire digital history, including sensitive emails and documents, is a major privacy concern.

While the goal is undoubtedly organization and convenience, the cost is transferring deep personal context about your life, work, and finances to a third-party AI tool. You really need to weigh this risk before signing up. Once CC has all this data, it consolidates your schedule, key tasks, and important notifications into one clear summary.

This lets you know exactly what you need to tackle next without having to switch between three different Google apps. For example, maybe you need to pay a bill that just arrived, or maybe you need to prepare for an important appointment that requires reviewing a document in your Drive. CC is supposed to report these items automatically for you.

The agent also helps you act quickly. If you need to send a quick confirmation or schedule a follow-up, CC helps by preparing draft emails and calendar links right in the briefing. The cool thing is that CC isn’t just a one-way street that spits out facts. You can actually teach it your preferences and guide the agent’s behavior.

You can do this by simply replying to the briefing email or by sending custom requests directly to CC. This allows you to ask it to memorize ideas, add new items to your to-do list, or even search for specific information related to your day’s schedule. Google is definitely leaning into the idea that it’s a highly personalized assistant that learns your habits over time.

It is important to remember that CC is still an early experiment and its deployment is currently very limited. It is launching in Early Access and is currently limited to consumer Google account users aged 18 or older in the United States and Canada. If you want to jump in and test this out, you’ll need to be a paid AI Pro or Ultra subscriber. Google also confirmed that this tool is designed for consumer accounts and is not yet available for Google Workspace accounts, so business users will have to wait their turn.

Source: Google Labs