Streamline Your Daily Workflow: Integrate Gemini CLI with your Google Workspace

Want a free personal assistant to help you manage your calendar, email and streamline your Google Workspace? Introducing the Gemini CLI Workspace extension! Connect Gemini CLI to your Google Workspace and let the Gemini CLI agent take the reins, setting up your meetings, organizing your Google Drive, drafting your emails, and so much more. This powerful extension handles your Google workspace while you focus on the more important tasks.

Let’s explore a few of the capabilities of the Gemini CLI Workspace extension.

Installation

Installing the Gemini CLI workspace extension is simple.

1. Install the Gemini CLI Workspace Extension from your terminal:

gemini extensions install https://github.com/gemini-cli-extensions/workspace

2. Launch Gemini CLI from your terminal:

gemini

3. You will be prompted to sign into your Google Workspace account in a new browser window.

4. Once logged in, you may close the browser window.

5. Go back to the terminal where the Gemini CLI is running.

Installing Gemini CLI Workspace extension

Google Calendar

Schedule Meetings

How many clicks does it take to schedule a meeting between multiple people?

You have to:

1. Create a new event.
2. Add the people to the event.
3. Click Suggested Time.
4. Select a time that everyone is available.
5. Write a description for the meeting.

But with the Gemini CLI workspace extension, you can do it all in a single prompt using natural language.

Prompt:

Schedule a meeting with xxxxx@gmail.com and xxxxx@gmail.com
tomorrow for 30 mins for Alanna's birthday party. Find a time that
works for all of us. Write the plans for the birthday party and
make sure they know it is a surprise party.

Using Gemini CLI Workspace extension to schedule a meeting

Respond to Meetings

Is your calendar full of unresponded meeting invites? Instead of manually sifting through your calendar for events needing a response, leverage the Gemini CLI workspace extension to efficiently search and respond to multiple events at once.

Prompt:

Give me a list of events that I haven't responded to.

Using Gemini CLI Workspace extension to respond to meeting invites

Google Docs

Use Google Docs as Context

Collaborate with your team to write your design documentation in Google Docs, then leverage it as contextual information to vibe code the implementation.

Prompt:

I want to build an inventory agent that follows this design
document that my team and I wrote:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/XXXXXXXXXXXXXX/edit

Using Gemini CLI Workspace extension to read a Google Doc for context

Save Agent Output in a Google Doc

Tired of losing formatting when you copy and paste AI agent output into documents? The Gemini CLI Workspace extension allows for direct saving of results into a Google Doc, complete with formatting and styling.

Prompt:

Evaluate the top two POS, point of sales, systems. I want to know
the pricing, the main features, the similarities and differences,
and a summary of the feedback from the community. I want the
report to have a different section for each application as well
as a summary comparison at the start of the report. Save this
report in Google Docs in an easy to read format.

Using Gemini CLI Workspace extension to save agent output to Google Doc

Google Chat

Workflow Notification

Integrate a Google Chat message into your workflow, whether it’s part of automation, CI/CD pipeline, script, or once Gemini CLI completes its task.

Prompt:

Make me a tic-tac-toe webapp game and when you are done making
it, send a chat message to xxxxx@gmail.com with a summary of
the code that was written and which files, the rules of the
game, and how to access the game.

Using Gemini Workspace extension to notify me via chat

Gmail

Zero Inbox

Have you ever wanted to achieve inbox zero but found it to be an impossible goal? Not anymore! With Gemini CLI’s workspace extension, it can summarize all of your unread emails and once the email summaries are reviewed, the agent can be instructed to mark all or specific emails as read.

Prompt:

Give me a summary of each unread email.

Using Gemini CLI Workspace extension to get to zero inbox

Summary

Discover enhanced productivity with the Gemini CLI Workspace Extension. This powerful tool streamlines your workflow by helping you manage your calendar, draft documents, and maintain an organized inbox. Beyond these core functions, Gemini CLI can also summarize unread chat messages and efficiently search your Google Drive. It can even extract information from your Google Sheets and Slides, making data access effortless. So, get your free personal assistant today, by installing the Gemini CLI Workspace Extension today to revolutionize your daily tasks and stay on top of your organizational needs.