Features
Email & Calendar
Integrate with Apple Mail and Calendar for AI-assisted communication and scheduling.
Dial8 integrates with macOS Mail and Calendar to give the AI assistant context about your communications and schedule.
Email Integration
What It Does
The AI can read your emails, search your inbox, and create email drafts — all through Apple Mail via macOS Automation.
Capabilities
- List accounts — See all configured Mail accounts
- Browse mailboxes — View mailboxes with unread/total counts
- Read messages — Access full email content, sender, recipients, attachments
- Search emails — Search across mailboxes with previews
- Create drafts — The AI can draft emails for your review
Setup
- Go to Settings > Email
- Enable email integration
- Grant Automation permission when prompted (System Settings > Privacy & Security > Automation)
- Select which email accounts the AI can access
Dial8 uses AppleScript to interact with Mail.app. Email data stays local — it's read directly from your Mail app, not through any external service.
Calendar Integration
What It Does
Full read/write access to your macOS calendars via EventKit. The AI can view your schedule, create events, and use calendar data to enrich meeting notes.
Capabilities
- List calendars — View all synced calendars with types and colors
- Read events — Access event details including title, time, location, URL, organizer, and attendees
- Create events — Schedule new calendar events through AI chat
- Link to notes — Connect calendar events to meeting recordings for context enrichment
Meeting Detection
When calendar integration is enabled, Dial8 can:
- Detect when a calendar meeting is starting
- Pre-fill meeting title and participants from the calendar event
- Auto-assign meetings to projects
- Import calendar attendees as meeting note participants
Setup
- Go to Settings > Calendar
- Grant calendar access when prompted
- Select which calendars the AI can see
- Optionally set calendar aliases for cleaner display