Work
One ask: all emails with a contact into one PDF, oldest first
You need a printable paper trail of one email conversation and do not want to click for an hour.
What hurt
JD (@joshuaday) answered how to download and organize email for print: connect Gmail, then tell the bot to put all emails with [their address] in one PDF, oldest first, and send it in chat. Attachments are not in the PDF yet. Not affiliated with xAI.
What to install or create
Connect Gmail → quoted ask → print the chat PDF.
Bots
Mail PDF
Pulls one contact's Gmail thread into a single PDF.
Plugins
Gmail
Required
Routines
None on the first run. Watch one manual pass first.
The prompt
Contact emails → one PDF (author-quoted)
Quoted from @joshuaday — as published. Do not invent a second system prompt.
put all my emails with [their email] in one PDF, oldest first, and send it here
First run
- 1Read https://x.com/joshuaday/status/2111621229677543870 (credit @joshuaday).
- 2In the Grok Bot app: Connect apps → add Gmail and sign in (phone: tap your picture, top left).
- 3Paste: put all my emails with [their email] in one PDF, oldest first, and send it here.
- 4Open the PDF in chat and print it; know attachments are not included yet.
Approval fence
The bot only builds a PDF in chat. You decide what to print or share.
What to tweak
Steal the quoted ask; print from chat; expect no attachments yet.
Source
JD / Shopify, CPG & AI @joshuaday · Original post
Not affiliated with xAI. We did not write this prompt. Third-party template terms still apply.
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