Companion videos

Inbox Zero with AI: a realistic email workflow — companion videos

The article frames email as a triage problem rather than a writing problem and shows what changes when you put a model in front of the inbox. The two YouTube picks below sit on opposite ends of that spectrum: a fast tour of where AI fits into a daily routine (including email), and a focused walkthrough of one provider's first-party AI assistant inside the email client itself.

Primary pick

14:26

101 Ways To Use AI In Your Daily Life

Tina Huang

Tina lists where AI actually pays off across a workday and several entries are exactly the email moves the article describes — checking and summarizing inboxes, drafting replies, editing for tone, organizing brain-dumped tasks. Useful as a reality check on what's worth automating versus what just needs a better template.

What you should get from this: Identify practical AI email moves: summarize threads, draft replies, adjust tone and organize follow-up work.

Watch or know first: None — watchable cold.

AI Expert note: Only some entries are about email; use it as the reality check it's framed as — which inbox moves are worth automating — and skip the rest.

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Also worth watching

13:13

How to Use Copilot to Automate Meeting Notes in Microsoft Teams!

Scott Brant

Scott Brant's broader Copilot work is the closest thing to an honest demo of how an integrated AI assistant changes the daily Outlook/Teams loop — drafting replies, summarizing threads, pulling action items into tasks. Nominally about meetings, but the same reflexes transfer straight to Outlook for anyone in a Microsoft 365 shop. (No single AI-for-email video clears the 100k-view bar with a beginner inbox-zero focus, so this is the strongest adjacent walkthrough.)

What you should get from this: Understand how integrated assistants can connect email, meetings and tasks into one reviewable work loop.

Watch or know first: Most useful if you live in Outlook and Teams on a Microsoft 365 plan.

AI Expert note: Nominally a meetings video — it's here because no AI-for-email walkthrough clears our quality bar with a beginner focus, and these Copilot reflexes transfer straight to Outlook.

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