porteden#

Use porteden for calendar and email management across multiple accounts. Use -jc flags for AI-optimized output.

If porteden is not installed: brew install porteden/tap/porteden (or go install github.com/porteden/cli/cmd/porteden@latest).

Setup (once)

• Browser login (recommended): porteden auth login — opens browser, credentials stored in system keyring
• Direct token: porteden auth login --token <key> — stored in system keyring
• Verify: porteden auth status
• If PE_API_KEY is set in the environment, the CLI uses it automatically (no login needed).

Calendar commands#

• List calendars: porteden calendar calendars -jc
• Events today (or --tomorrow, --week): porteden calendar events --today -jc
• Events custom range: porteden calendar events --from 2026-02-01 --to 2026-02-07 -jc
• All events (auto-pagination): porteden calendar events --week --all -jc
• Search events: porteden calendar events -q "meeting" --today -jc
• Events by contact: porteden calendar by-contact "user@example.com" -jc (or --name "John Smith")
• Get single event: porteden calendar event <eventId> -jc
• Create event: porteden calendar create --calendar <id> --summary "Meeting" --from "..." --to "..." --location "Room A" --attendees "a@b.com,c@d.com"
• Update event: porteden calendar update <eventId> --summary "New Title" (also: --from, --to, --location)
• Update attendees: porteden calendar update <eventId> --add-attendees "new@example.com" (or --remove-attendees; add --notify to send notifications)
• Delete event: porteden calendar delete <eventId> (add --no-notify to skip attendee notifications)
• Respond to invite: porteden calendar respond <eventId> accepted (or: declined, tentative)

Event Status Values

• confirmed - Accepted/scheduled
• tentative - Maybe attending
• needsAction - Requires response from user
• cancelled - Event was cancelled

Time Formats

• All times use RFC3339 UTC format: 2026-02-01T10:00:00Z
• For all-day events, use midnight-to-midnight with --all-day flag
• JSON output includes startUtc, endUtc, durationMinutes fields

Email commands#

Use porteden email (alias: porteden mail) for email management.

• List emails (or --today, --yesterday, --week, --days N): porteden email messages -jc
• Filter emails: porteden email messages --from sender@example.com -jc (also: --to, --subject, --label, --unread, --has-attachment)
• Search emails: porteden email messages -q "keyword" --today -jc
• Custom date range: porteden email messages --after 2026-02-01 --before 2026-02-07 -jc
• All emails (auto-pagination): porteden email messages --week --all -jc
• Get single email: porteden email message <emailId> -jc
• Get thread: porteden email thread <threadId> -jc
• Send email: porteden email send --to user@example.com --subject "Hi" --body "Hello" (also: --cc, --bcc, --body-file, --body-type text, --importance high)
• Send with named recipient: porteden email send --to "John Doe <john@example.com>" --subject "Hi" --body "Hello"
• Reply: porteden email reply <emailId> --body "Thanks" (add --reply-all for reply all)
• Forward: porteden email forward <emailId> --to colleague@example.com (optional --body "FYI", --cc)
• Modify email: porteden email modify <emailId> --mark-read (also: --mark-unread, --add-labels IMPORTANT, --remove-labels INBOX)
• Delete email: porteden email delete <emailId>

Notes#

• Credentials persist in the system keyring after login. No repeated auth needed.
• Set PE_PROFILE=work to avoid repeating --profile.
• -jc is shorthand for --json --compact: filters noise, truncates fields, reduces tokens.
• Use --all to auto-fetch all pages; check hasMore/ nextPageToken (email) or meta.hasMore/ meta.totalCount (calendar) in JSON output.
• Calendar manual pagination: --limit 100 --offset 0, then --offset 100, etc.
• by-contact supports partial matching: "@acme.com" for email domain, --name "Smith" for name.
• Email IDs are provider-prefixed (e.g., google:abc123, m365:xyz789). Pass them as-is.
• --include-body on messages fetches full body (default: preview only). Single message includes body by default.
• --body and --body-file are mutually exclusive. Use --body-type text for plain text (default: html).
• Confirm before sending, replying, forwarding, or deleting emails.
• Confirm before creating, updating, or deleting events.
• "invalid calendar ID": Get IDs with porteden calendar calendars -jc.
• Environment variables: PE_API_KEY, PE_PROFILE, PE_TIMEZONE, PE_FORMAT, PE_COLOR, PE_VERBOSE.