Use an agent to spot calendar-email conflicts

A writer linked Dots to his email and calendar so it could catch a rescheduled event and surface the most urgent messages.

Done with Dots· Intermediate

What they did
Harry McCracken connected OpenAI’s Dots agent to Gmail, Google Calendar, and Dropbox. It then checked his schedule against related email and noticed that one speaking event showed different dates in the two places. Dots also sifted through a crowded inbox of PR emails and marked the messages it thought needed attention.
How it went
The mismatch was real: the event had been moved and the organizers had not told him. It also surfaced a freelance author’s email that had been left unanswered for weeks, and its judgment about what mattered proved accurate.
Tips
This kind of check requires broad access to your mail and calendar, so use it only if you’re comfortable with that level of sharing. If the agent is about to send, delete, accept, or change anything, make it wait for your approval first.

Try it yourself with Dots

Check my calendar and inbox for the next [number] days. Find any events where the date or time in Calendar does not match the related email thread, especially if something may have been moved. Also identify unread messages that look genuinely time-sensitive or important and tell me why they matter. Give me a short list of conflicts and urgent items with a recommended next step for each, but do not send, delete, accept, decline, or edit anything until I confirm it with you.

Fill in the [brackets]. Agents can make mistakes, so review anything before it is sent, paid or deleted.

Read the original on fastcompany.com ↗

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