Turn an inbox into structured, local work
Connect an IMAP inbox, choose the target table and local folders, and run a visible scheduled workflow. Kition stores message metadata as rows, the full email body as Markdown, and optional attachments in the same workspace.
Best for
Operations, support, sales, research, and administrative teams that need email content to become searchable work instead of remaining trapped in an inbox.
Input
An IMAP account, mailbox, schedule, destination table, and optional attachment folder.
Output
Structured message rows, complete Markdown emails, local attachments, and visible run history.
The operational gap
Why this work breaks across separate tools
Email contains decisions, requests, files, and customer context, but it is difficult to connect that information to tables, documents, and downstream processes. Traditional automations can be hard to inspect and often discard the full message context.
What Kition changes
Keep the source, the Agent, and the result together
Kition exposes inbox sync as a visual workflow with configuration, schedule, run status, and explicit destinations. Each imported message becomes a structured row with a link to its full Markdown document. Attachments can remain local, and later workflows can operate on the approved records.
A complete, reviewable workflow.
The goal is not a clever prompt. It is a visible chain from source material to an approved artifact that can be reused.
Connect the mailbox
Use the provider’s app password or authorization code and verify the IMAP connection before enabling a schedule.
Choose local destinations
Map metadata to a .kitable file and choose folders for full Markdown messages and optional attachments.
Run and inspect the sync
Start manually, review imported, updated, skipped, and failed counts, then enable a schedule when the result is correct.
Build downstream work
Filter the inbox table, open the source message, summarize threads, or trigger approved follow-up and routing workflows.
Human review
Check this before the work moves forward
- Confirm credentials use the provider’s supported app-password or authorization flow.
- Inspect the first imported batch before enabling a recurring schedule.
- Decide explicitly whether attachments should be downloaded and retained locally.
Outcome
What remains after the Agent finishes
- Inbox content becomes searchable project data
- Every row links back to the complete message
- The sync process and its failures remain visible
- Structured email data can feed later human-reviewed workflows
Use the product guides, then adapt the workflow.
Start from the documented Kition objects and keep only the fields, review points, and automation your process actually needs.
Ready when you are.
Kition is a desktop AI workspace for connected documents, structured tables, editable designs, whiteboards, visual workflows, and reviewable AI agents.