Briefs and routines
A morning brief that tells you what the day needs from you
Ask for a morning brief once, say at 7:30 on weekdays, and it arrives every morning as one card. It covers your meetings, the emails waiting on you, promises coming due, work in progress and anything your assistant held back so it would not interrupt you. The same goes for any other report you want on a schedule.
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How it works
- 01
Say when you want it
"A morning brief every weekday at 7:30", or "every Friday at 4, review my week". Any regular report works the same way.
- 02
Check the schedule card
It shows the exact times in your time zone and when the first one runs. Nothing is scheduled until you press Set it up.
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Read it, act on it
The brief arrives as one card in sections. Suggestions inside it can be answered on the spot, line by line.
What is in a morning brief?
A morning brief is one card with two to five sections. It draws on your calendar for the day, the emails waiting on you, your reminders, work in progress or waiting on your answer, promises coming due, and suggestions your assistant held for the brief. It can also include news on topics you care about.
Each suggestion in the brief is on its own line with its own answer, so you can say yes to a nudge, put off a reminder and skip a clean-up without leaving the card. If something has been dealt with since it was written, its line says "Already taken care of".
Can it do other things on a schedule?
Yes. Anything you would ask for once, you can ask for regularly: "Every Monday at 8:30, give me the pipeline summary." An evening brief and a weekly review ("every Friday at 4") work the same way. Each routine runs in the background and posts its result in your conversation.
Routines are listed under Scheduled with their next run and their history, and you can pause one, run it now or cancel it there. To change a time, just say so ("move it to 8:00"); you get a card with the old time struck through to confirm.
What happens when I travel or the clocks change?
Routines run at the local time they were set for, so a 7:30 brief stays at 7:30 when daylight saving starts or ends. If you change your own time zone, routines set in it move with you; a routine you set in another zone on purpose stays where it was.
If our side was down when a routine was due, only the latest missed run is caught up, within a few hours, so you never get a pile of stale briefs.
How do reminders work?
"Remind me at 4 to call Rahul" goes off at 4:00 in your time zone, in your conversation, with Done and Snooze (ten minutes, an hour, or 9:00 tomorrow). It is listed under Scheduled until then.
With notifications on, a reminder also reaches your phone or desktop, even when the app is closed. Reminders you set are the one thing that still comes through during quiet hours.
How do I control what interrupts me?
Tell it in plain words. "Only ping my phone for urgent things; everything else in my morning brief" becomes a set of rules that it reads back to you and lists in Settings. Quiet hours hold every notification except reminders you set.
If you want a break, "Pause everything you do on your own" stops routines, briefs and suggestions in one go. Your own requests and reminders carry on, and everything resumes when you say so.
What it won't do, or doesn't do yet
- A brief can only include what is connected. Without Google connected, it covers your conversation, reminders and promises, and says it cannot see your calendar or inbox.
- You change a routine by asking in the conversation. There are no time pickers in Scheduled yet.
- Up to 20 routines per person.
Questions people ask
What time does the morning brief arrive?
At the time you ask for, in your own time zone. Weekdays only, every day, or particular days all work.
Can I get it by email?
Yes. You can ask for a daily email at a time you choose, with whatever your rules send to email. The brief itself always appears in your conversation too.
Can I change what goes into it?
Yes. Ask in plain words, for example "leave the news out of my morning brief". A change to a routine comes back as a card for you to confirm. Rules like "put newsletters in the brief instead of pinging me" are read back and listed in Settings.
What is a weekly review?
A brief that looks back over the week: what was done, what your assistant handled on its own, promises still open and the week ahead. Ask for one on the day and time you want, for example Friday at 4.
Will it wake me up?
No. Quiet hours hold every notification except reminders you set yourself. Anything else that arrives overnight waits for your morning brief or the end of quiet hours.
How do I stop a routine?
Say "cancel the pipeline summary", or open Scheduled and press Cancel. You can also pause it and resume it later.
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It also does
- AI meeting prepAbout 30 minutes before a meeting, Bumblebee sends a brief: who is coming, your last exchanges, what is still open, the files involved and points to have ready.
- AI email assistantBumblebee reads your Gmail, tells you what needs you, writes replies in your style into Drafts, and by default sends nothing until you approve it on one card.
- AI meeting follow-upWhen a meeting ends, Bumblebee drafts the recap in your Gmail Drafts, keeps the action items as promises, and nudges you when someone has gone quiet.
- AI chief of staffAn AI chief of staff takes on ongoing work, keeps going while you are busy, and asks you once before anything leaves your hands. Here is how Bumblebee does it.
Hand it the first thing on your list.
Sign in, give your assistant a name and tell it what you're working on. It takes about five minutes.
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