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Driven Inbox
A private, read-only email intelligence app for Windows. It reads your mailbox to find the messages that deserve attention — bills, invoices, renewals, deadlines, security alerts — and it is built so that it technically cannot send, modify or delete anything.
What it does
- Connects to Gmail or Microsoft Outlook / Microsoft 365 with the provider's official sign-in, over a lookback window you choose (7, 30 or 90 days).
- Classifies each message locally — bill, invoice, receipt, payment, subscription, renewal, security, deadline, newsletter and more — with a stated confidence level.
- Extracts what can actually be read from the message: amount, currency, due date, renewal date, invoice number, merchant. A value it cannot read shows as “Not detected”, never a guess.
- Shows an importance verdict with a named reason (“payment deadline detected”, “account security activity detected”) — no opaque scores.
- Runs quietly in the system tray, can start with Windows using the real Windows startup mechanism, and can notify you generically (“Found an important message”) without putting mail content in a notification.
What it can never do
Read-only is a technical property here, not a promise. Every provider request passes one guard that refuses anything but reads: there is no code path that can send, reply, compose, forward, delete, archive, move, label, mark as read, or change any mailbox setting — and the OAuth scopes requested do not permit any of that either, so even the credentials the app holds cannot write. The automated test suite proves both, on every run, including against hostile emails that try.
Permissions, exactly
- Gmail: the single scope gmail.readonly. No send, modify, compose or label scope is requested, ever.
- Microsoft: delegated Mail.Read and User.Read (plus standard sign-in scopes). No Mail.Send, no Mail.ReadWrite.
Sign-in happens in your own browser on the provider's own page; Driven Inbox never sees or stores your password.
Privacy
- All processing is local, on your computer. Classification is deterministic — no AI service is involved, and nothing from your mailbox is sent to Driven servers, to analytics, or to any third party.
- Stored locally: connection metadata, OAuth tokens encrypted with Windows (DPAPI), classification metadata and short plain-text snippets. Full email bodies are fetched only when you open a message and are never written to disk.
- Emails are displayed as plain text only: no HTML rendering, no remote images, no clickable links inside a message — which also means a malicious email cannot execute anything or phone home when viewed.
- Disconnecting an account deletes its tokens and analyzed metadata. “Delete all local data” removes everything. Logs never contain message bodies or tokens.
What it is, technically
Driven Inbox is an Electron application — it does not pretend to be anything else — with the renderer sandboxed and isolated, a no-network content security policy in the interface layer, and all provider traffic confined to one auditable read-only guard in the main process.
Availability
In development. The application is fully runnable from source on Windows 10/11 today, with a built-in, clearly-labelled sample mailbox for evaluation. Connecting a real Gmail or Microsoft account additionally requires the operator's OAuth app registrations with Google and Microsoft, which are in progress — Google classifies Gmail read access as a restricted scope requiring its own verification process before public distribution. There is no download link yet because there is no signed installer yet; when that changes, this page will say so plainly. No pricing exists.
Trademarks
Driven Inbox is an independent product and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Google or Microsoft. Google and Gmail are trademarks of Google LLC. Microsoft, Outlook and Microsoft 365 are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies. Names are used only to identify the services the app can read from; no third-party logos are used.
Contact
Questions: hello@drivenmemory.com. Related: Privacy · Security · Terms of Use.