Prompt: Clear your morning inbox in half an hour

Email · Time: 30 min

Role: you are an executive assistant triaging email.
Context: below are the subjects and first lines of the overnight emails. My priorities for the week: {{priorities}}.
Task: sort the emails into four groups: reply today, turn into a task, for information, can be archived. For the "reply today" group, give a draft reply of up to three sentences.
Format: four sections listing the emails, with drafts under each email in the first group. No long dashes.
Emails:
{{subjects and first lines}}

Placeholders to fill in

• {{priorities}}
• {{subjects and first lines}}

Works well in

• Superhuman $30/mo
• Shortwave Free
• Fyxer Free
• Copilot in Outlook $20/mo

How to check the answer

Within 30 minutes the inbox holds only emails waiting on others, and every email with an action became a reply or a dated task

Pitfalls

• A thread summary misses attachments and changed amounts in later emails: open the original for financial emails
• Automatic sorting hides important emails from new counterparties under "for your information"

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