Copilot in Outlook will prioritize your emails based on their importance

Outlook will use Copilot to prioritize your emails. This means that high-priority emails in your inbox will be analyzed by the AI model and then summarized to provide a summary right when you open the email platform.

Microsoft announced this capability at the Copilot: Wave 2 event. It will automatically perform these tasks, so every time you open Outlook, you will be updated with the most important emails of the past or current day.

The Redmond-based tech giant says Copilot in Outlook can also be taught to remember specific topics, keywords, or people important to users, thus ensuring that those emails are marked as high priorities.

Here’s what the entry says:

Prioritize my inbox by Copilot marks high priority mails in your inbox and provides a short summary of the mail’s importance in the message list and the reading pane. Mails can be sorted and filtered by Copilot’s priority. In Web and New Outlook for Windows, you can also choose to have Copilot mark low priority mails. #newoutlookforwindows

Microsoft plans to release a public preview of the capability in December 2024.

In other news, SharePoint will also use AI to let admins compare sites, and organizations will have access to Copilot agents and pages to streamline productivity.