What you need
- A Stackora account
- The inbox where important mail already lands (Gmail, Outlook, or anything that can forward)
- About fifteen quiet minutes to copy your address, add one rule, and confirm delivery in Settings → Digest
No API keys, no mailbox-wide OAuth, and no requirement to grant read access to your entire provider.
Step 1 — Sign in and copy your forwarding address
After sign-in, open your Dashboard. Stackora shows a unique address such as u_<token>@mail2.stackora.ai (the exact domain matches your tenant).
That address is the intake lane. Anything sent to it becomes eligible for parsing, summarization, and your digest.
Step 2 — Route a narrow slice of mail first
Start with one high-signal category — school notices, client project threads, or travel confirmations — instead of forwarding everything.
Gmail (typical pattern):
- Add Stackora’s address as an allowed forwarding target under Settings → Forwarding and POP/IMAP (Google may send a confirmation code first).
- Create a filter with criteria you trust, and choose Forward it to your Stackora address for matching new messages.
Outlook / Microsoft 365: Use Rules to forward mail that matches sender domains or keywords. The same idea applies: small, intentional criteria first.
If you are not ready to automate, forward a handful of messages manually. You will still see how summaries and digest items look before you automate.
Step 3 — Set digest timing and timezone
Open Settings → Digest. Choose when you want to review output, and make sure your timezone under Settings → Profile is correct so send times match real life.
Plans differ: some include a backward-looking recap and a forward-looking “what’s coming” view. Use whatever your account exposes — the habit matters more than the label.
Step 4 — Teach Stackora your context (optional but powerful)
Under Intelligence, add short focus, ignore, and correlation hints — for example mapping a teacher’s address to a child’s name. That steers summaries without turning your account into a pile of brittle keyword rules.
Step 5 — Review on the dashboard
The Dashboard is where you see captured items, deadlines, and actions before and after they appear in email. Use it to confirm forwarding health, retry anything that failed processing, and give thumbs-up or thumbs-down feedback so quality improves over time.
After the first week
- Tighten filters if you see too much noise; widen them if important senders are missing.
- Visit Subscriptions in Settings if the same newsletters show up every week — sender-level controls reduce repeat clutter.
- If your plan includes Analytics, use volume, category mix, and items-per-digest trends to decide whether your forwarding scope is right.
Most people spend the first week tuning rules; the second week is when the routine starts to feel calmer than living inside an unread badge.