Automate Your Email Triage with a Structured Summary Table
Transform your cluttered inbox into a prioritized action table instantly.
Use Copilot as an 'email analyst' to scan your unread messages and generate a summary table categorized by urgency.
The Scenario
You are returning from a vacation or a long weekend and face a cluttered inbox. You need to quickly identify which emails need immediate attention without reading through every thread.
Before & after
Manually scanning a busy inbox after a week away to identify high-priority items usually takes 30–60 minutes of cognitive effort and sorting.
Using Copilot for Microsoft 365, you can generate a prioritized table of your inbox in under 2 minutes. This identifies urgent tasks and unread messages without you having to open every single thread.
The Prompt
You are my email analyst. Review all unread emails in my Outlook inbox from the past [NUMBER] weeks and summarize each one in a structured table. Please prioritize them based on urgency and flag items requiring immediate follow-up.
Copilot acts as an 'email analyst' by leveraging Work IQ to understand the context of your communications and organizational data.
Source
Microsoft 365 Copilot – Microsoft Adoption"Review all unread emails in my outlook inbox and summarize each on in a structured table."