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Work & OperationsDone with Dots 2026-10-21
Catch calendar conflicts and triage the inbox
A writer gave Dots calendar and email access; it spotted a rescheduled event's date mismatch and flagged urgent messages in his inbox.
- What They Did
- Harry McCracken connected OpenAI's Dots agent to his Gmail and Google Calendar, and to Dropbox. Without being asked, it compared a speaking engagement on his calendar with a confirmation email and flagged that the dates differed. It also picked out messages it judged urgent from an inbox full of PR pitches. Dots runs on a cloud Linux computer.
- How It Went
- The date mismatch turned out to be real: the organizers had rescheduled and never told him. Dots also found a freelance author's message that had sat unanswered for weeks, and its sense of what mattered was dead-on.
- Worth Knowing
- Dots is limited to ChatGPT tiers that start at $100 a month, and it needs broad access to your email and calendar to work.
Try it yourself with Dots
Review my calendar and email for the next [number] days. Flag any events whose dates or times don't match between the calendar and related emails, especially rescheduled ones, and list the urgent unread messages that need a reply from me today. Give me a short summary of conflicts and urgent items with a suggested fix for each. Don't reply, accept, decline, or change anything without showing me first.
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