> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.getinboxzero.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Assistant Settings

> Control drafting, reminders, writing style, knowledge, and safety settings for your AI assistant.

Open **Assistant** in the sidebar and select the **Settings** tab to control how the assistant drafts, learns, and notifies you. Settings apply to the currently selected email account, so review them separately when you connect multiple accounts.

## Drafting controls

### Auto draft replies

Enable this to create replies in your Drafts folder for messages that need a response. The assistant does not send these drafts automatically.

### Draft confidence

Choose how certain the assistant must be before it prepares a draft:

* **All emails**: draft whenever an email needs a reply, even when uncertain.
* **Standard**: skip drafting when the assistant is unsure how to respond.
* **High confidence**: draft only when it is very sure of the appropriate reply.

Use a stricter setting when correctness is more important than draft coverage.

## Updates

### Follow-up reminders

Enable reminders for messages where someone has not replied to you or where you have not replied. In **Configure**, set the delays and choose whether the assistant should prepare a follow-up draft.

### Digest

Schedule a daily summary of newsletter emails and choose which rules contribute to it. Digests require the **Plus plan or higher**. You can route a digest to a connected chat provider from [Channels](/essentials/channels).

## Your voice

### Writing style

Describe your typical length, formality, greetings, and other stylistic habits. This guidance is used when drafting replies in your voice.

### Personal instructions

Add stable information about yourself and how you want the assistant to handle email. Keep instructions general and durable; use assistant rules for specific matching conditions and actions.

### Email signature

Configure the signature appended to drafted messages.

## Knowledge and learning

### Draft knowledge base

Store facts that can help the assistant answer recurring questions. This control is available only while auto draft replies are enabled.

### Learned patterns

Inbox Zero learns when senders or email types consistently match the same rule. Open **Learned patterns** to view, edit, or remove those associations. Remove a pattern when it starts routing a sender incorrectly.

## Advanced settings

### Sync to browser extension

Sync label-based assistant rules to the Inbox Zero Tabs extension as Gmail tabs. This requires the configured Inbox Zero Tabs extension and a Chromium browser, and it applies to Gmail rather than Outlook. Select the label rules you want before starting the sync.

### Multi-rule selection

Allow the assistant to select multiple custom rules for one message.

### Include referral signature

Optionally append an Inbox Zero referral link to generated drafts.

### Allow hidden links in AI drafts

This permits anchor text such as “click here” instead of displaying the full URL. It reads more naturally, but it hides where a link leads. Leave it off when transparent links are important.

### Sensitive data protection

Choose how credentials and card numbers are handled before an AI request:

* **Off**: send content without scanning.
* **Redact**: hide detected credentials and card numbers, then send the remaining content to AI.
* **Block**: skip the AI request when sensitive data is detected.

## Troubleshooting

### A setting is missing

Some settings depend on your plan or email provider. Auto-draft controls appear only while auto-drafting is enabled, Digest requires the Plus plan, and extension sync requires the Inbox Zero Tabs extension.

### Drafts do not sound like me

Update **Writing style**, **Personal instructions**, and **Email signature**, then review the Draft knowledge base for stale facts. Editing generated drafts also helps the assistant learn over time.

### Too few or too many drafts are created

Adjust **Draft confidence**. Also review the rules that determine whether a message needs a reply and remove incorrect learned patterns.

### Follow-up reminders are missing

Confirm that at least one reminder delay is set, then run the scan from **Configure**. If reminders should arrive in chat, also verify the route on [Channels](/essentials/channels).