How to Use Gemini in Gmail (Full Tutorial)

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Kevin Stratvert walks through Google’s newly announced AI update for Gmail, sorting features by free versus paid and noting the rollout starts in the US in English. Free for everyone: AI Overviews for email threads, which put a quick summary at the top of a long thread so you do not have to read every reply; new suggested responses that use the full conversation context to better match your tone and style, useful for quick back-and-forths from the phone; and Help Me Write, opened with the forward slash key, the Gemini icon with pencil, or Alt+H, where you type a prompt — in the demo, thanking customer Nelson for touring the Kevin Cookie Company factory — click Create, then refine the draft by formalizing, elaborating, or shortening it, edit the prompt and retry, and Insert the result. Paid features requiring a Google AI Pro or Ultra subscription: Proofread, which underlines text in a draft you already wrote and suggests fixes for grammar, word choice, tone, and clarity that you can accept or ignore individually; and asking your inbox questions in plain English in the search field — in the demo, ‘who is the electrician I worked with on installing the EV charger earlier this year’ — which returns a direct answer at the top rather than a list of emails to parse. Last, AI Inbox, currently rolling out to trusted testers, replaces the traditional list with suggested to-dos pulled from email, such as signing a contract with links to the source messages, and topics to catch up on that group related messages with short summaries. Kevin frames it as a complement for prioritization, not a full inbox replacement.

Key takeaways

• AI Overviews, context-aware suggested replies, and Help Me Write are free for all Gmail users
• Help Me Write can be opened with / , the Gemini pencil icon, or Alt+H, then refined to formalize, elaborate, or shorten
• Proofread — underline-by-underline grammar, tone, and clarity fixes on your own draft — requires Google AI Pro or Ultra
• Asking your inbox plain-English questions in search, with a direct answer on top, also requires a paid subscription
• AI Inbox for trusted testers surfaces suggested to-dos and grouped topics to catch up on, complementing rather than replacing the inbox

Episode details: published January 9, 2026 · 7:05 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Kevin Stratvert’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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