Why Is Cortana Emailing Me?

The Daily Briefing email helps you stay in control of your calendar and be intentional about your day. Within a few hours of the start of your workday, you’ll get an email about any relevant items to help you better prepare for the day ahead, including:

• Prepare for meetings which shows you related tasks or documents related to today’s meetings.
• Manage tasks which reminds you of pending tasks from email.
• Make the most of focus time by scheduling time on your calendar that silences notifications for uninterrupted, independent work.

COOL FACT: Cortana learns when you get to work, and sends the email based upon what she predicts is the start of your workday. The timing is different for everyone based upon their work habits.

How Cortana Your Daily Briefing Emails Work

The insights and actions in the Briefing email are based on your Exchange Online mailbox data, such as email and calendar data. The insights are derived from data that is already available to you in your Exchange Online mailbox.

For example, if you want to determine what commitments you made to others, you could manually review each email in your mailbox. The Briefing email simply saves you from this tedious process.

What Emails? I’m Not Receiving Any

Like all AI, Cortana is data driven, and the more data that she has, the better she can predict your needs. If you haven’t received an email, fret not — Cortana just may not have enough data to provide you with a daily briefing email. The more you work in Office 365 with Teams, Outlook. SharePoint, and others the better your daily briefs will be. You could also be unsubscribed…

How Do I Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the Your Daily Briefing Email?

You can verify that you are subscribed to or unsubscribe to the “Your Daily Briefing” emails any time by visiting https://cortana.office.com (while logged into Office 365):

Also, each Daily Briefing email provides an unsubscribe link within the footer of the email:

Is Cortana Secure?

YES! All the information gathered for these daily briefing emails are completely secure, and for your eyes only! Briefing emails are personal and private and are only sent to you directly in your mailbox, which cannot be accessed by anybody else in your organization, including your IT admin or your manager — without leaving an audit trail.

Your Briefing emails are based on information that you already have access to but can’t quickly aggregate without help.

Briefing emails do not include any new personally identifiable information about anybody else in your organization. The insights and actions are based on information generated by you and your organization just by going about your regular workday. Your Briefing emails are based on information that you already have access to but can’t quickly aggregate without help.