Mail to Hüsli

Parents' evening, water supply interruption, shipping confirmation: forward emails like these to your personal Hüsli address. Hüsli reads them and turns them into an appointment with a reminder or a parcel. You decide which emails you send – one by one by hand, or automatically with a filter.

How it works

1. Open Settings › Calendars & mail. Your personal Hüsli address is under Mail to Hüsli.
2. Tap Copy and ideally save the address as a contact “Hüsli” in your mail app.
3. Try it out: tap Send a test email and send the prepared email.
4. Shortly afterwards, tap Check now. Hüsli shows what has arrived – the test is then in the calendar.
5. From now on: in your mail app, tap “Forward” on an email and send it to your Hüsli address.
6. For automatic forwarding, tap Guide & filters: there you'll find the parcel filter to copy and the instructions for Gmail, Outlook and iCloud.

Gmail: set up a filter

1. Open Gmail on a computer (the phone app has no filters): gear icon › “See all settings” › “Forwarding and POP/IMAP” tab.
2. Click “Add a forwarding address”, paste your Hüsli address and click “Next”.
3. Google sends Hüsli a confirmation. In Hüsli, Confirm in Gmail appears under Settings › Calendars & mail – tap it (Check now helps if it isn't there yet).
4. On Google's page, click “Confirm”.
5. Leave “Disable forwarding” selected at the top – you only want to forward certain emails, and the filters do that.
6. In the Gmail search box, click the slider icon and paste the parcel filter from Hüsli into “Has the words” (or a sender such as the school into “From”).
7. Click “Create filter”, tick “Forward it to”, choose your Hüsli address and click “Create filter” again.

Outlook and iCloud

1. Outlook.com or Hotmail in the browser: gear icon › “Mail” › “Rules” › “Add new rule”. In Outlook on a computer (Microsoft 365) it is called “Manage rules”.
2. Condition: “From” (a sender) or “Subject includes”, e.g. shipment, parcel, delivery. Action: “Forward to” › your Hüsli address › Save.
3. iCloud in the browser at icloud.com/mail: gear icon at the top of the mailbox list › “Rules” › “Add a Rule”.
4. “If a message … is from” (or “Subject contains”) › “Then … Forward to” › your Hüsli address › “Done”.

Good to know

• Only your personal address works. It contains your code – emails to the general Hüsli address without a code are discarded unread.
• Who the entry is for: If the email comes through the filter of an account in your family, the appointment belongs to that person. With an invitation that has a calendar file, the invited people get it. Otherwise it is for the whole family.
• Hüsli creates the appointment or the parcel and then deletes the email; its text stays as a note in the appointment. If Hüsli finds no date, the email appears as a note on the day it arrived.
• Every filed email shows up for the parents under the bell, with a notification. Turn this off under Settings › Notifications with the topic Mail to Hüsli: every filed mail.
• Parents set up Mail to Hüsli, and it is part of Pro (free during the beta).