Summarize a 30-message thread before your call.

The call is in ten minutes. The thread has thirty messages. Six people weighed in. Half of it is "just following up." You're supposed to sound like you read it all.

What you do

Forward the thread:

To: [email protected]

Give me the picture before my 3pm call with the client. Decisions, open questions, and anything I'm expected to answer.

Your assistant strips the quoted noise, works through the actual conversation, and hands you a brief:

• Decision made: contract scope locked on July 30
• Open: invoice #2041 still unapproved
• Awaiting your input: whether to extend the pilot to Q4
• Watch for: two people raised the pricing question and never got an answer

You walk into the call with the full picture — and you didn't read thirty messages to get it.

Why it works

Thread summaries are the most "email" task there is: pure reading, no thinking. It's exactly the kind of work that belongs with an assistant. You get the judgment call back — what's open, what's yours to answer — and someone else handles the reading.