Reading for “Your week, rebuilt with AI”

For the $25 webinar on Wednesday, November 4, 2026: Your week, rebuilt with AI. You don't need to read any of it first.

1. Get started writing prompts in Microsoft Copilot

   Microsoft Support

   A short, practical guide to what goes into a good request: the goal, the context, the source to use and what you expect back. It works in any assistant, not just Copilot.

2. Google Workspace with Gemini prompt guide

   Google Workspace

   Google's guide to prompting, with ready examples sorted by role and task. Good for finding a starting point for the jobs in your own week.

3. Prompting best practices

   Anthropic (Claude docs)

   Written for developers, but the first sections are plain advice anyone can use: be clear and direct, give context, and show an example of what you want.

4. OpenAI Academy

   OpenAI

   OpenAI's learning site, with courses and recorded events on using ChatGPT for everyday work. Some replays ask you to sign in.

5. Draft emails with Gemini in Gmail

   Gmail Help (Google)

   How the built-in drafting works in Gmail, step by step. Useful even if you use another tool, because it shows the draft, refine and check loop.

6. Summarize an email thread with Copilot in Outlook

   Microsoft Support

   Catching up on a long thread in one step. Read it alongside the summarise-and-list-actions prompt on the five-prompt starter card.

7. “Take notes for me” in Google Meet

   Google Meet Help

   How AI meeting notes work in Meet: who can turn them on, who's told, and where the notes go. Worth knowing before you switch it on in a meeting with clients.

8. Catch up on meetings with Microsoft Copilot in Teams

   Microsoft Support

   The Teams version: recaps, action items and questions about a meeting you missed. Check a recap against your own memory before you act on it.

9. Study finds ChatGPT boosts worker productivity for some writing tasks

   MIT News

   A controlled experiment with professionals doing everyday writing tasks. The write-up is honest about its limits, including that factual accuracy wasn't checked.

10. Navigating the jagged technological frontier

    Harvard Business School

    A field experiment with consultants: AI helped a lot on tasks it was good at, and made people worse on a task just outside what it could do. The reason to hand over one job at a time and check it.

Every link was opened and checked on October 24, 2026. Each one is public, with no paywall. None of these sources is connected to the workshops.