Build my weekly to-do list from my team's messages and email

Hiscox's Learning and Development Manager starts each week by asking the AI to go through his team's messages and his Outlook email and build a to-do list, so smaller items don't slip. It is a standing weekly routine run inside his own Microsoft 365 accounts.

How it works

Ask the AI at the start of the week
Agent reads team messages and Outlook email
Compiles a to-do list
Manager works from the list

Why it’s worth knowing

The advanced variant of inbox summary: a recurring sweep of two channels that ends in an actionable list, not a digest.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on windowsforum.com. See the original ↗

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