Teams Digest

Every morning, what moved in your Teams channels in the last 24 hours, and which of it wants you.

What you get

One page, waiting for you at 9. Every channel that moved yesterday gets one line — the channel, how many messages piled up in it, what it actually wants from you, and how urgent that is. The loudest channel does not win: the ones waiting on an answer sit at the top, and the fifty-message thread about the coffee machine sits at the bottom where it belongs.

Every channel is named with its team, like Marketing > General. Teams puts channels inside teams, and half the teams in a company have a General, so the team name is part of the address rather than decoration.

It covers the teams you are a member of. You never pick channels or keep a list up to date here — you widen it by joining a team and narrow it by leaving one, in Teams itself.

Chats are left out on purpose: one-to-one and group chats are not in this at all. Channels only.

Nothing is posted, replied to, reacted to or marked read. It only reads.

Not the same as Microsoft 365 Brief

If you have its sibling Microsoft 365 Brief as well: that one gives you one line per thing across mail, meetings and messages, answering what today asks of you — a notable Teams post shows up there as a single line among your meetings. This one gives you one line per channel, with a message count, answering what happened while you were away. A channel that took sixty messages and needs nothing from you is a line only this page can give you, and on a busy morning it is the most useful line on it.

How to look at it

Open the Channel Roundup app in this cabinet. It comes pre-filled with a made-up example so you can see the shape of it straight away — the page says clearly that those channels are fake. Your first real digest takes its place.

Before it can read your real Teams

Connect Microsoft 365 in Cabinet's integrations screen — Teams has no sign-in of its own, and the same one covers Outlook, Calendar and SharePoint too. It is an ordinary Microsoft sign-in; on a company account your IT department may have to allow it first, and the screen tells you what to hand them if they ask. Until you connect, the page keeps the example.

What's inside

• Teams Reader — the one agent. Reads the day's channels, writes the digest.
• Morning Teams Digest — the one routine. Runs at 09:00 every day.
• Channel Roundup — the one page. Opens on today, with a dropdown for earlier days.