Meeting Insights in Mobile Outlook

If you live off your mobile device, you know it’s not very easy to look at a meeting on your calendar and find any related information that might help you prepare. Now in the mobile version of Outlook on iOS and Android, there’s a new feature called Meeting Insights, and it will gather any documents or emails that might be relevant for you. It’s a great example of how Microsoft is using machine learning to make you more efficient. Here’s what it looks like…

Here’s my Outlook calendar on my iOS phone. For this illustration, I’m going to focus on my 1:15 pm meeting with HR:

When I click into that calendar entry, I get all the associated details that I would expect to see:

But if I scroll down, I see the new Meeting Insights section. That has files that are related to this meeting (this particular one is stored in OneDrive), as well as any related emails that Outlook could find: