Gmail to Notion Task

The grind

The inbox becomes the backlog

Here's what doing this by hand looks like today, and why it doesn't scale.

• Action items live inside emails and never get tracked.
• Deadlines buried in threads quietly slip by.
• Copying an email into a task with a due date eats a few minutes every time.

MewCP collapses all of this into one prompt. Here's what that looks like.

The flow

6 steps · 2 servers

Your agent runs it end-to-end

01

Resolve the message, fetching it directly if a message id is given or searching the inbox otherwise.

02

Fetch the message body.

03

Pull the task fields from the body, including a title in imperative phrasing, a due date parsed from phrases like by Friday or EOD Thursday, a priority where urgent or asap becomes High, and the sender for attribution.

04

Check the target database schema to match the property names and types.

The payoff

Nothing slips through the cracks

Emails turn into structured Notion tasks with the deadline already parsed out, and there is zero manual transcription.

Paste this into Claude, Codex, or any MCP-connected agent. It'll connect your apps and run the task from start to finish.

Run it yourself

Copy the prompt

Goal: Gmail to Notion Task

MCP servers needed (connected through MewCP): Gmail, Notion

Steps:
1. Resolve the message, fetching it directly if a message id is given or searching the inbox otherwise.
2. Fetch the message body.
3. Pull the task fields from the body, including a title in imperative phrasing, a due date parsed from phrases like by Friday or EOD Thursday, a priority where urgent or asap becomes High, and the sender for attribution.
4. Check the target database schema to match the property names and types.
5. Create the task row with the title, due date, priority, and a source link back to the email.
6. Return the new page URL.

Check with me before sending any message or changing data in a connected app.

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