Recipe Save Email To Doc

The recipe-save-email-to-doc skill enables users to extract a Gmail message body and save it into a Google Doc for archival or reference purposes. It serves Google Workspace users who need to preserve important emails in a more organized format by automating the process of finding messages, extracting content, and writing it to a new document. The skill solves the problem of manually copying and pasting email content into documents by streamlining the workflow through command-line operations on Gmail and Google Docs APIs.

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last updated: Aug 21, 2026

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Install

$ npx -y skills add googleworkspace/cli --skill recipe-save-email-to-doc --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

Files

Save a Gmail Message to Google Docs

PREREQUISITE: Load the following skills to execute this recipe: gws-gmail, gws-docs

Save a Gmail message body into a Google Doc for archival or reference.

Steps

Find the message: gws gmail users messages list --params '{"userId": "me", "q": "subject:important from:boss@company.com"}' --format table
Get message content: gws gmail users messages get --params '{"userId": "me", "id": "MSG_ID"}'
Create a doc with the content: gws docs documents create --json '{"title": "Saved Email - Important Update"}'
Write the email body: `gws docs +write --document-id DOC_ID --text 'From: boss@company.com Subject: Important Update

[EMAIL BODY]'`

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