https://konshus.ai/assets/gmail-sent-only-vs-full-inbox-DGukuHaO.js

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Here's why the smaller Gmail import is the more useful one — and the safer one.`})]}),e.jsxs("section",{className:"mx-auto max-w-3xl px-6 py-8 space-y-4 text-ink/80 leading-relaxed",children:[e.jsx("h2",{className:"font-serif text-2xl md:text-3xl text-ink !mt-4",children:"Two very different corpora"}),e.jsxs("p",{children:["Your Gmail account contains two very different kinds of text. The ",e.jsx("strong",{children:"sent"})," folder is a first-person writing corpus — every email in it is something you wrote, addressed to a specific person, with tone and intent shaped by that relationship. The ",e.jsx("strong",{children:"inbox"})," is other people's writing, plus a much larger volume of transactional, promotional, and automated messages."]}),e.jsx("p",{children:"For a memory tool trying to help a Konshus speak like you, the two are not comparable. One is the voice signal. The other is noise."})]}),e.jsxs("section",{className:"mx-auto max-w-3xl px-6 py-8 space-y-4 text-ink/80 leading-relaxed",children:[e.jsx("h2",{className:"font-serif text-2xl md:text-3xl text-ink",children:"What sent mail reveals"}),e.jsxs("ul",{className:"list-disc pl-6 space-y-2",children:[e.jsxs("li",{children:[e.jsx("strong",{children:"How you write to different people"})," — the version of you that emails your sister vs your CFO. Tone-shift patterns are strong identity signal."]}),e.jsxs("li",{children:[e.jsx("strong",{children:"What you actually explain"})," — the topics you find yourself typing out repeatedly are the topics you care about."]}),e.jsxs("li",{children:[e.jsx("strong",{children:"Decisions you told someone about"})," — most life-changing decisions get announced by email long before they get journaled."]}),e.jsxs("li",{children:[e.jsx("strong",{children:"Recurring commitments"}),` — the six-month-old thread where you said "yes, I'll be there" is often the reason next month's calendar looks the way it does.`]})]}),e.jsx("p",{children:"Distillation across a few thousand sent emails produces atoms about how you communicate, what you care about, and who you show up for. Inbox produces atoms about what marketers want your attention on."})]}),e.jsx(t,{}),e.jsxs("section",{className:"mx-auto max-w-3xl px-6 py-8 space-y-4 text-ink/80 leading-relaxed",children:[e.jsx("h2",{className:"font-serif text-2xl md:text-3xl text-ink",children:"Privacy also gets easier"}),e.jsx("p",{children:`Sent-only is a smaller OAuth scope. Google's verification review is faster and stricter when the requested access is proportionate to the feature. "We read your sent folder to build a personal writing corpus" is a specific, defensible ask. "We read your entire inbox" isn't — and shouldn't be.`}),e.jsx("p",{children:"Your inbox contains other people's private writing addressed to you. Feeding it to a memory tool is a consent question they never got to answer. Sent mail is you writing about yourself; the consent situation is much cleaner."})]}),e.jsxs("section",{className:"mx-auto max-w-3xl px-6 py-8 space-y-4 text-ink/80 leading-relaxed",children:[e.jsx("h2",{className:"font-serif text-2xl md:text-3xl text-ink",children:"If you want specific inbox items"}),e.jsx("p",{children:"One escape hatch for the newsletters, receipts, or specific threads you do want in memory:"}),e.jsx("ul",{className:"list-disc pl-6 space-y-2",children:e.jsxs("li",{children:[e.jsx("strong",{children:"Forward to your Vault Inbox"})," — the forwarded email becomes an artifact. Perfect for the one great newsletter or a specific meaningful thread."]})})]}),e.jsxs("section",{className:"mx-auto max-w-3xl px-6 py-8 space-y-4 text-ink/80 leading-relaxed",children:[e.jsx("h2",{className:"font-serif text-2xl md:text-3xl text-ink",children:"Getting started"}),e.jsxs("p",{children:["Gmail (sent-only) is pending Google OAuth verification. Join the waitlist at ",e.jsx(i,{to:"/vault/import/gmail",className:"underline",children:"/vault/import/gmail"}),". When verification completes, the connection asks for the narrow scope and imports historical sent mail plus new messages going forward."]})]}),e.jsxs("section",{className:"mx-auto max-w-3xl px-6 py-8",children:[e.jsx("h2",{className:"font-serif text-2xl md:text-3xl text-ink mb-4",children:"Frequently asked"}),e.jsx(o,{items:n})]}),e.jsx(t,{variant:"bottom",headline:"Import only what you wrote",body:"Sent mail is voice signal. Inbox is noise. The smaller Gmail import is the more useful one — and the safer one."})]})}

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