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Get a Daily Email Summary of Your Outlook Inbox
One brief each morning: what needs a reply, who is still waiting on you, and what can wait.
Try it with your OutlookOutlook's way: Focused Inbox
- 1Focused Inbox splits mail into Focused and Other.
- 2You train it by moving messages between the two.
- 3Everything in Focused still has to be read to know what matters.
- 4There is no summary — only a different pile.
The problem
- ✕Sorting is not summarising; you still open everything
- ✕No sense of what is urgent versus what merely arrived
- ✕Nothing tells you who is waiting on a reply from you
- ✕Coming back from leave means reading everything anyway
Clarity's way: a brief, before you open Outlook
- 1Clarity reviews everything that arrived since your last brief.
- 2It works out what needs you, what is waiting on someone else, and what is noise.
- 3You get one email, ordered by urgency, with the reasoning shown.
- 4Open Outlook already knowing what the day looks like.
What changes
- ✓One email instead of an inbox
- ✓Ordered by what actually matters, not arrival time
- ✓Surfaces threads where someone is waiting on you
- ✓Makes returning from leave survivable
Who runs into this
Founder
Two hundred emails a day and no way to know which three matter before lunch.
Operations lead
Needs to know what slipped overnight before the morning stand-up.
Anyone back from leave
Two weeks of mail and no idea where to start.
Frequently asked questions
When does the brief arrive?
Each morning in your timezone, before the working day. You can change the time or turn it off.
Does it include everything?
No, and that is the point. It covers what needs your attention and what is waiting on you. Newsletters and notifications are categorised in Outlook but kept out of the brief.
Does this work with Focused Inbox?
Yes. Focused Inbox keeps doing its own sorting; the brief is a separate summary and does not change it.
Can I see why something was included?
Yes. Each item says why it is there — someone asked a question, a thread went quiet, a reply is overdue.
Looking for Microsoft's own documentation? Microsoft's Focused Inbox documentation
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What it costs you
Roughly 9.1 hours a week
Estimate2.8 hrs of that we could cover
The rest stays yours — it is not repeatable.
106 hrs
a year, if the low end of the range holds
137
threads went quiet and nothing told you
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