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Prioritize Two Weeks of Backlog Emails Using Time-Based Summarization
Catch up on weeks of missed emails by prioritizing based on urgency.
Apply a timeframe-specific prompt to summarize the last two weeks of email and rank them by order of importance.
Microsoft Copilot
The Scenario
You are returning from a two-week vacation and need to identify the most critical items to address first without reading every single thread.
Before & after
The old way
Checking old threads and cross-referencing calendars to catch up on two weeks of missed work manually takes 1–2 hours.
With AI
Copilot summarizes two weeks of communication and identifies the most critical tasks in 2–3 minutes.
The Prompt
Please summarize the emails I’ve received over the past two weeks and prioritize them based on urgency. Focus on items where I am specifically mentioned or have a direct request for action.
This prompt leverages 'Work IQ,' which allows Copilot to scan context across your emails over a specific timeframe to identify urgent tasks you might have missed.
Source
Microsoft 365 Copilot – Microsoft Adoption"Please summarize the emails I’ve received over the past two weeks and priortize them based on urgency."