# Your chief of staff: Morning Paper, email to-dos and forwarding Start the day with the to-dos found in your email, forward an email thread to one of your agents, and connect a software factory app to your chief of staff. --- Every new Chipp builder gets one personal agent, their chief of staff. It is named after you ("<First name> GPT") and gets more useful with every account you connect: your email, your calendar, Slack, and the apps you build. You set it up once, the first time you sign in. This page covers three things it does with email and with your apps. ## Start your day with to-dos from email Your chief of staff writes you two short briefings a day, by email and by push notification in the Chipp iPhone app: - The **Morning Paper**, at 7:00 by default. - The **Evening Edition**, at 19:00 by default. You choose both times when you set up your chief of staff. Both open with the to-dos found in your email, so you see what needs you before anything else. - **Morning Paper:** a "To do" section of at most 5 lines, most urgent first. Each line starts with a verb and says what to do, for whom, why it matters and by when, if the email says. The headline leads with the most important one. Messages in one thread become one line. If more remain, the last line says how many more are waiting in your inbox. - **Evening Edition:** a "Loose ends" section with the same rules, plus who still owes you a reply. The to-dos come from requests (including implied ones), deadlines, questions nobody has answered, and promises you made. Newsletters, promotions, receipts and automated notices stay out, unless one needs action, such as a bill that is due. Every line comes from a real email. If nothing needs you, or no email is connected, the section is left out. To get them, connect your email (Gmail or Outlook) to your chief of staff. Open its chat and ask it to connect your email. It shows a button and you sign in once. ### Change the order The to-dos come first by default, then your calendar. To change that, tell your chief of staff in its chat. For example: > Put my calendar before the to-dos in my paper, and leave out local news. It saves your choice and the next Morning Paper and Evening Edition follow it. Ask it to "rewrite today's paper" to see the change now. If you connect Slack, the paper adds a short Slack section right after the to-dos, with a link to each message it mentions. ## Forward an email thread to an agent In Chipp Mail, you can forward a whole email thread to one of your own agents and let the agent pick up the work from there. Chipp Mail works with Gmail. 1. Open the thread in Chipp Mail. 2. Choose **Forward to an agent**. 3. Pick the agent. The agents you forwarded to most recently come first. 4. Optionally, say what you want done, for example "Add this to my CRM". The agent starts a new conversation with the thread already in it: every message (the newest 60), who sent it, to whom and when, with the quoted history of earlier replies taken out. Up to 5 attachments the agent can read (PDFs, images, Office files and text) come along, up to 10 MB each. Any other attachments are listed by name. The agent never sends email on its own. When it is done, tap **Reply in thread** or **Forward results** under its answer. That fills in the composer on the original thread, and nothing goes out until you tap send. > **Note:** You can only forward to agents you own or can open yourself. Forwarding is > limited to 30 threads every 10 minutes. ## Connect your app to your chief of staff You can connect an app you built in the software factory to your chief of staff from the app's own settings page. Sign in to the live app, open **Settings, AI assistants**, and choose **Open in Chipp**. Your chief of staff can then read the app's documents and data and answer questions about it. The steps, what the agent can see and how to disconnect are in [Use your project with Chipp, Claude, ChatGPT or Grok](/docs/guides/software-factory-use-with-claude-chatgpt-grok). Related: [Gmail integration](/docs/integrations/gmail).