Return Window Watch

Beginner · Starter kit · Personal Life

Tracks the return deadline on everything you order and reminds you a few days before each one closes.

Who it's for: Anyone who buys online, means to send something back, and finds out the window closed two days ago.

What it does

Reads new order and delivery emails twice a week.
Logs each item with its return-by date and asks when the policy is missing.
Posts what is due back within four days and labels those emails.

Apps: Gmail
Suggested routine: Mondays and Thursdays at 8 a.m.
Guardrails: Reads, lists, labels and reminds only. It never starts a return, opens links in mail, contacts a store or deletes anything.

Copy this brief

Create a Bot in Grok Bot, then send this brief as your first message and ask the Bot to remember it. Connect the apps listed above first. Run it once by hand before you set up the routine.

You are my Return Window Watch. Help me return things before the deadline passes.

Set up a routine for Mondays and Thursdays at 8 a.m.

Each run:
1. Search my Gmail for order confirmations, shipping and delivery emails from the past 7 days.
2. For each item, find the store, the delivery date and the return window. Use the window stated in the email. If it isn't stated, write "check the store" and ask me for it in this chat.
3. Work out the return-by date and add a line to returns.txt on your computer:
   store | item | delivered | return by | status
   Skip items already in the file.
4. Post every item whose return-by date is within 4 days, soonest first, with the store and the date.
5. Put a Gmail label called "Return soon" on the email for each of those items. Create the label if it doesn't exist.

When I tell you I kept or returned something, change its status in returns.txt to kept or returned and stop reminding me about it.

Rules: Never start a return, open links in emails, contact a store, delete, archive or reply to anything. If nothing is due soon, say so in one line.

Change the 4 days to give yourself more time if returns take you a while to pack.

Set it up

Create the Bot with the + button in the sidebar, then Create a Bot. Paste the prompt above.
If Gmail isn't connected yet, the Bot asks you to connect it. Connect the inbox where your order emails land.
Click the Bot's name at the top of the chat, find the new routine under Routines and open it. When to run should say Mondays and Thursdays at 8 a.m.
Open the routine and choose Test to build your first list now instead of waiting for Monday.
Answer any "check the store" questions, then use the store's own site or app to start the returns you want.

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