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Athena starters for meetings and productivity

Prepare for meetings, clear the inbox, and keep projects on track. 9 starters, 2 of which run on a schedule. Each shows what it needs, what it delivers, and the full prompt to copy.

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Athena starters for meetings and productivity are 9 ready-made prompts grouped into Meetings, Email and Projects. 2 run on a schedule: Athena runs them once, delivers a spreadsheet, PowerPoint deck and Word document, emails them to you, and repeats on the cadence you pick. A few need a connected app: calendar (Outlook or Gmail calendar), email (Outlook or Gmail). The rest need no setup.

FIG. 01 / MEETINGS AND PRODUCTIVITYMEETINGSPrep for my next meetingNotes to action itemsMy week at a glanceEMAILInbox triageSummarize a long threadFollow-ups I oweSCHEDPROJECTSProject status updateSCHEDProject planPrioritize my tasksFIG. 01 / MEETINGS AND PRODUCTIVITYMEETINGSPrep for my next meetingNotes to action itemsMy week at a glanceEMAILInbox triageSummarize a long threadFollow-ups I oweSCHEDPROJECTSProject status updateSCHEDProject planPrioritize my tasks
FIG. 01The meetings and productivity starters by group. SCHED marks a starter that runs on a schedule; each has its own page.
Contents
  1. 01Meetings
  2. 02Email
  3. 03Projects
  4. 04Why run it in Athena
  5. 05For your team
  6. 06Related dispatches
  7. 07Questions teams ask

01Meetings

Prep for my next meeting

Attendees, last discussion, and open items.

Setup
Needs Calendar (Outlook or Gmail calendar); Needs Email (Outlook or Gmail)
Runs
When you ask
Outputs
An answer in chat
Needs CalendarNeeds Email
Show the prompt
Prepare me for my next meeting: who is attending and their roles, what we discussed last time, open items, and what I should get out of it.
Open in Athena

Opens a new Athena chat with this prompt ready to send. If you're not signed in, you'll sign in first and land in the same chat.

Notes to action items

Decisions and owners, plus the follow-up email.

Setup
No setup needed
Runs
When you ask
Outputs
An answer in chat
No setup needed
Show the prompt
Turn these meeting notes or this transcript into decisions, action items with owners and dates, and open questions: [paste or attach]. Then draft the follow-up email.
Open in Athena

Opens a new Athena chat with this prompt ready to send. If you're not signed in, you'll sign in first and land in the same chat.

My week at a glance

What to prepare, decline, and not miss this week.

Setup
Needs Calendar (Outlook or Gmail calendar); Needs Email (Outlook or Gmail)
Runs
When you ask
Outputs
An answer in chat
Needs CalendarNeeds Email
Show the prompt
Look at my calendar and email for this week. Tell me what to prepare for, which meetings I could decline or shorten, and the deadlines I must not miss.
Open in Athena

Opens a new Athena chat with this prompt ready to send. If you're not signed in, you'll sign in first and land in the same chat.

02Email

Inbox triage

Unread mail sorted, with replies drafted.

Setup
Needs Email (Outlook or Gmail)
Runs
When you ask
Outputs
An answer in chat
Needs Email
Show the prompt
Go through my unread email. Sort it into needs a reply today, can wait, and FYI, draft replies for the first group, and list anything with a deadline.
Open in Athena

Opens a new Athena chat with this prompt ready to send. If you're not signed in, you'll sign in first and land in the same chat.

Summarize a long thread

What was decided and who owes what.

Setup
Needs Email (Outlook or Gmail)
Runs
When you ask
Outputs
An answer in chat
Needs Email
Show the prompt
Summarize the email thread about [subject]: what was decided, what is still open, and who owes what by when.
Open in Athena

Opens a new Athena chat with this prompt ready to send. If you're not signed in, you'll sign in first and land in the same chat.

Follow-ups I owe

People waiting on you, oldest first. See how it runs →

Setup
Needs Email (Outlook or Gmail)
Runs
Every Monday at 7am, or every weekday or monthly instead
Outputs
spreadsheet, PowerPoint deck, Word document; emailed to you after every run
Runs on a scheduleSheetDeckDocNeeds Email
Show the prompt
Find emails from the last 30 days where someone is waiting on a reply or deliverable from me. List them oldest first with what they asked for, and draft a short reply for each. Deliver three files in my company's brand. If I have Word, PowerPoint, or Excel templates in Athena, ask once which to use and build every file from them, keeping their layouts, styles, and formulas. For the brand, use my company's design system if one exists. Otherwise find my company's website (search the web if you are not sure of the domain), run design_system_retriever on it to get the real logo, colors, and fonts, and save the result with create_design_system so every run matches. Use the real logo image; never redraw it or type the company name in its place. The files: (1) a spreadsheet with one row per follow-up (person, subject, asked for, date, days waiting, draft reply); (2) a PowerPoint deck with the logo on the title slide, a one-slide summary, a slide per section with a chart wherever there are numbers, and a so-what slide; (3) a Word document with the logo in the header, the full brief, and every source cited. Brand colors and fonts throughout, one idea per slide, no walls of text. Finish with a short summary in chat that links all three. When each run finishes, this one included, email me the three files from Athena: send them to my own email address with the chat summary in the body. If Athena cannot send email in this workspace, say so instead. When you are done, ask me if I want this every Monday at 7am (or every weekday, or monthly instead). Also ask which sections to keep and confirm my IANA time zone (for example America/New_York), and pass it explicitly when creating the schedule. If I choose a schedule, set up a scheduled agent that runs this same brief on it, keeps the spreadsheet asset ID and any template IDs in its instructions, reads the latest dated tab before each run, and reports only what changed since the last run. It says plainly when nothing material changed, and says comparison is unavailable if the prior tab cannot be read. Each run adds a dated tab to the same spreadsheet and makes a new dated deck and document. Whenever I give feedback on a run, in this chat or a later one, update the scheduled agent's instructions (and the template or design system when the feedback is about how the files look) so every later run follows it, then tell me exactly what you changed.
Open in Athena

Opens a new Athena chat with this prompt ready to send. If you're not signed in, you'll sign in first and land in the same chat.

03Projects

Project status update

Progress, risks, and decisions from email and meetings. See how it runs →

Setup
Needs Email (Outlook or Gmail); Needs Calendar (Outlook or Gmail calendar)
Runs
Every Monday at 7am, or every weekday or monthly instead
Outputs
spreadsheet, PowerPoint deck, Word document; emailed to you after every run
Runs on a scheduleSheetDeckDocNeeds EmailNeeds Calendar
Show the prompt
Build the weekly status update for the project I name. Ask me which project and where its tracker lives. Pull this week's progress, risks, and decisions from my email, meetings, and the tracker, and show status against milestones. Deliver three files in my company's brand. If I have Word, PowerPoint, or Excel templates in Athena, ask once which to use and build every file from them, keeping their layouts, styles, and formulas. For the brand, use my company's design system if one exists. Otherwise find my company's website (search the web if you are not sure of the domain), run design_system_retriever on it to get the real logo, colors, and fonts, and save the result with create_design_system so every run matches. Use the real logo image; never redraw it or type the company name in its place. The files: (1) a spreadsheet with one row per milestone (milestone, owner, due, status, risk, decision needed); (2) a PowerPoint deck with the logo on the title slide, a one-slide summary, a slide per section with a chart wherever there are numbers, and a so-what slide; (3) a Word document with the logo in the header, the full brief, and every source cited. Brand colors and fonts throughout, one idea per slide, no walls of text. Finish with a short summary in chat that links all three. When each run finishes, this one included, email me the three files from Athena: send them to my own email address with the chat summary in the body. If Athena cannot send email in this workspace, say so instead. When you are done, ask me if I want this every Monday at 7am (or every weekday, or monthly instead). Also ask which sections to keep and confirm my IANA time zone (for example America/New_York), and pass it explicitly when creating the schedule. If I choose a schedule, set up a scheduled agent that runs this same brief on it, keeps the spreadsheet asset ID and any template IDs in its instructions, reads the latest dated tab before each run, and reports only what changed since the last run. It says plainly when nothing material changed, and says comparison is unavailable if the prior tab cannot be read. Each run adds a dated tab to the same spreadsheet and makes a new dated deck and document. Whenever I give feedback on a run, in this chat or a later one, update the scheduled agent's instructions (and the template or design system when the feedback is about how the files look) so every later run follows it, then tell me exactly what you changed.
Open in Athena

Opens a new Athena chat with this prompt ready to send. If you're not signed in, you'll sign in first and land in the same chat.

Project plan

Milestones, owners, dependencies, and risks.

Setup
No setup needed
Runs
When you ask
Outputs
spreadsheet
SheetNo setup needed
Show the prompt
Build a project plan for [project] in a spreadsheet: milestones, tasks, owners, dates, dependencies, and the top risks with mitigations.
Open in Athena

Opens a new Athena chat with this prompt ready to send. If you're not signed in, you'll sign in first and land in the same chat.

Prioritize my tasks

Your list by urgency and impact, with a weekly plan.

Setup
No setup needed
Runs
When you ask
Outputs
An answer in chat
No setup needed
Show the prompt
Prioritize this task list by urgency and impact: [paste]. Say what to drop or delegate, and lay out a plan for this week.
Open in Athena

Opens a new Athena chat with this prompt ready to send. If you're not signed in, you'll sign in first and land in the same chat.

04Why run it in Athena

A chat assistantAthena
What you getText in a chatReal Excel, Word, and PowerPoint files in your templates
Working togetherOne person, one chatYour team and the agent in the same file, live
MistakesRegenerate and start overEvery edit attributed; undo or roll back any change
Next runStarts from scratchBuilds on the last run and on your feedback
Your dataCopy and pasteDocuments, email, and warehouse, under each person's access
Where it runsTheir cloudYours, if you need it
TABLE 1Why run it in Athena: the same prompt in a chat assistant and in Athena.

05For your team

06Related dispatches

07Questions teams ask

How do I use a starter?

Open a new chat in Athena, paste the prompt, and replace anything in square brackets with your details before sending. Athena asks for anything else it needs.

Which starters run on a schedule?

These run on a schedule: Follow-ups I owe, Project status update.

Do these starters need connected apps?

A few need a connected app: calendar (Outlook or Gmail calendar), email (Outlook or Gmail). The rest need no setup.

Can I use my own templates?

Yes. The scheduled starters ask once which of your Word, PowerPoint or Excel templates in Athena to use and build every file from them. With no template, they use your company's logo, colors and fonts.