How categories work
Cora classifies each email into a category, and each category has an action that determines what happens to that email:
Brief - the email is included in your next scheduled brief
Timely (Inbox) - the email stays in your Gmail inbox immediately, bypassing the brief
Archive - the email is quietly archived without appearing in your brief
Draft - Cora prepares a draft reply for you
Why is a newsletter showing up in my inbox instead of my brief?
If a newsletter is landing in your inbox rather than your brief, Cora has likely classified it as Timely rather than Newsletter. Timely emails are designed to reach you immediately - login codes, urgent alerts, time-sensitive messages. Some newsletters can look similar to urgent content to the AI.
To move a sender to your brief, tell Cora in the chat interface:
"Always add emails from [sender name or email] to my brief."
Adding rules for specific senders
You can tell Cora to always route emails from a particular sender to a specific category. Some examples:
"Add a rule so emails from [email protected] go to my Meeting Recordings category"
"Always file emails from [email protected] as Newsletter"
"Move emails from my boss to Timely so they appear in my inbox right away"
Cora will add the rule automatically and apply it to all future emails from that sender.
The "Unrenderable" badge
You may occasionally see a red "Unrenderable" badge in the Cora chat interface. This is a display quirk - not a category - that appears when Cora references a category in a way the interface cannot render. It does not affect how your emails are processed or what appears in your briefs.