Action items from Outlook

0:00 In fact, over on the left-hand side, you can see that I have three emails from today, and they're probably action items for me hidden away in those emails. Let's see if we could use Copilot to extract some of those tasks or follow-ups. In the top right-hand corner, let's click on the Copilot icon. This opens up the Copilot pane, and up on top, I have some suggested prompts that I could use, but I actually have my own in mind.

0:29 So, let's go all the way down to the bottom where we have this text field, and this is where I could type in my prompt. I'll type in, do I have any action items in my unread emails today? Over on the left-hand side, here I have those three messages. They're all unread, and they're from today. I've scoped it to today, but you could also say from this week, or maybe last week, or maybe while I was away on vacation, if you even want to follow up on those.

0:54 Now that I've finished my prompt, in the bottom right-hand corner, let's send that to Copilot to see what comes back. And what do you know? It looks like I have three tasks from today in my inbox, one from Patti, one from Diego, and another one from Alex. One of the really neat things is Copilot reads the message and it summarizes what the action is. So here I can see a quick summary. It looks like Patti wants me to create a video teaser.

1:20 And if I want to see the original message or all of the context, of course, I could go over to my inbox and find that message, or right over here, you'll see that it includes a citation. When I click on this citation, it opens up the original message that Copilot based its response on. So here I could read the original request from Patti. And over here from Diego, I can click on this citation and there too, I can also see the original message.

1:48 Of course, I can see all of my different action items right here, and it's good to know what all of them are. But to make sure I actually complete them, I probably want to add them to a to-do list