He runs his dad's work orders and meeting scheduling out of his dad's inbox

The same Cowork setup checks his father's email for work orders and schedules his father's meetings automatically. He turned off data sharing with AI for this, so the mail is not saved anywhere else.

How it works

Cowork reads the father's inbox
Work orders picked out
Meetings scheduled automatically
Data sharing kept off so nothing is stored

Why it’s worth knowing

Adult children quietly become the IT department for a parent. Here the son handed the whole inbox routine to an agent, with the privacy setting changed first.

Where it’s from

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

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