Connect your account
Launch Filo
One blue button greets you: Sign in with Google.
Google Workspace SSO isn’t ready yet—Filo currently supports personal or delegated Gmail only.
Choose your Gmail address
Complete the familiar Google OAuth flow.
Grant permissions
Scopes: Read, Compose, Send, Delete
Password never leaves Google; the token lives locally, encrypted, and you can revoke it anytime in your Google Security dashboard.
2-factor and Advanced Protection work out-of-the-box.
Initial sync logic (≈ 30 s - 1 min, depends on the network)
Phase
What happens
Why
Seed fetch
Filo pulls 100 messages from the last 30 days—nothing older, nothing beyond 100.
Keeps first launch fast and focused.
Scroll-to-process
As you scroll that seed list, Filo’s AI generates a summary for each email, then classifies it as Important, Updates, Promos, or Spam.
Lets you skim & watch the inbox self-organise in real time.
Auto-relocate
Once labelled, those messages instantly move into their respective categories. Your “Important” tab ends up holding only the good stuff.
Gives you a clean slate without manual dragging.
Ongoing mail flow
After the first 100-email pass, every new message is summarised and classified simultaneously—it lands straight in the correct category the moment it appears.
Automatic To-Do sweep
Filo scans all unread mail from the past 48 hours (excluding spam/promos).
Any genuine action item becomes a To-Do in your Tasks view—no tagging required.
Adding another Gmail (existing users)
When you hit Settings → Accounts → Add, the exact same seed-sync logic runs for that mailbox—100 recent emails first, scroll-to-process, then real-time classification.
Trouble signing in?
Pop-up blocked → allow pop-ups and retry.
Token expired or admin-restricted → a red Reconnect banner appears; click and follow the prompt.
Still stuck? Tap the feedback icon on the landing page or ping us in Discord #feedback for live help.
Grab a coffee while Filo finishes that first 100-email sweep; by the time you’re back, your inbox will have summarized itself, sorted itself, and surfaced any fresh To-Dos—all before you’ve even hit reply.
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