Email (Gmail)

• Instant send. Email goes out through Gmail directly, in one step. No browser puppeteering, no Mail windows flashing open. After a send, Twinly checks your Sent box to confirm it went.
• Inbox reading. Ask what is in your inbox and the twin lists recent mail (sender, subject, first line) and can open any message in full.
• Search and context. The twin can find a specific message to ground a reply or pull a detail.
• New-mail awareness. Twinly checks your inbox every few minutes and posts a calm banner when something new arrives (New email · Sarah Chen / Lunch tomorrow?), no sound, with its own switch.

Apple Mail is the fallback: if Gmail is not connected, the twin uses Mail and tells you what happened.

• A Google account with 2-Step Verification turned on. App passwords do not exist without it.
• About two minutes on Google's account page.

1. Go to myaccount.google.com/security and make sure 2-Step Verification is on.
2. Open myaccount.google.com/apppasswords (or search app passwords in the account settings search box).
3. Name it Twinly and click create. Google shows a 16-character password once. Copy it; the spaces in it do not matter.

An app password is a limited credential: it lets one app sign in to mail, it does not reveal your real Google password, and you can revoke it from the same page any time.

Open Settings ▸ Gmail, enter your Gmail address and the app password, and you are done. New-mail awareness has its own switch there (on by default).

The app password is stored in your OS keychain (the macOS Keychain, or Windows Credential Manager on a PC) and is only ever sent over an encrypted connection, directly to Google's mail servers. Your mail is not routed through Twinly. The twin reads your inbox only when a task needs it. Whether a send waits for your OK, or shows for 5 seconds first, follows your approval mode; emails to family always wait.