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Today brings your commitments, updates, and meetings into one page. Daily Brief is the private summary Athena prepares from your connected work at your chosen local time. Use it to review your day, open supporting sources, and keep track of the priorities you complete. Each member controls their own brief in an enabled workspace.

How to turn on Today and set up a Daily Brief

  1. Open Workspace Settings
  2. Turn on Today
  3. Open Daily Brief settings
  4. Set your schedule
  5. Connect your sources
  6. Refresh
  7. Work your checklist

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Enable Today for your workspace

Only the workspace owner role can change this setting:
  1. Open Workspace Settings, then Home.
  2. Find Today and Daily Brief.
  3. Turn on Use Today as the workspace home.
Today is on by default for a workspace that has never saved this setting, and members are enrolled automatically at 08:00 in their browser time zone. You only need these steps if someone turned Today off. Today becomes the starting page for members. Turning the workspace setting off restores the previous home page and disables the brief controls for members.

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Set your schedule

  1. Open User Settings, then Daily Brief. You can also open Daily Brief settings from Today.
  2. Turn on Prepare my Daily Brief.
  3. Set Prepare at to your preferred local time.
  4. Enter your Timezone as an IANA timezone, such as America/New_York.
  5. Select Save changes.
Turn off Prepare my Daily Brief and save to stop your scheduled brief. This personal choice does not turn off Today for other members.

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Connect sources and refresh

  1. Open Today. If you have no connected sources, select Connect sources.
  2. Connect a source you can access. Today reads from Calendar, Inbox, Team chat and Projects. Your to-dos come from those sources.
  3. Return to Today and select Refresh to request a fresh brief. If you have no brief yet, the page also offers Prepare my brief.
  4. Wait while the page shows Preparing. Open the source links to review the underlying work.

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Update your checklist

  1. Select an item’s checkbox to mark it complete.
  2. Clear the checkbox to reopen it.
  3. Select Not mine on an open item to dismiss it from the visible checklist.
  4. Select Prep where available to start a session about that item.

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Good to know

Your brief is private. Preparing it reads the connected work you can access. Refresh is unavailable while preparation or source checking is in progress, or when the page asks you to connect sources. Available content depends on your connections.