A ranked morning brief
A handful of what actually needs you, most important first, with one line on each saying why. Everything else is a count, not a list.
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The Manager Playbook
Meeting notes become tasks on the list.
What people promised in the meeting lands as a task with an owner. Nothing is sent to anyone else.
How it helps
Promises in a meeting become tasks.
Promises become work
New transcripts become tracked items: one per commitment, with the owner it was given to, and one message saying what was created.
Threads that went quiet
Where you wrote last and nobody came back, a short follow-up is drafted in the same conversation. You send it, or you don't.
What's included
Four tasks
People who run a team, and spend the week in meetings about work other people are doing.
Morning email brief
Each morning, a ranked handful of what actually needs you. Everything else is a count.
Action items from meeting notes
Transcripts become tracked work: one item per commitment, with the owner it was given to.
Learn from my email
Keeps how you write, what you have committed to, and facts about the people you work with.
Follow-ups when nobody replied
Quiet threads get a short follow-up in the same conversation.
What happened
What a run looks like.
After the preview run, Faber leaves a plain-English record of what it read and what it prepared. Nothing in it went to the team except the one message you already asked for.
Example runManager
- Sent the morning brief at 7am: 5 things that needed you, 23 that did not.
- Read 2 new transcripts and created 6 tracked items with owners.
- Posted one message naming what was created.
- Drafted 3 follow-ups for threads that went quiet.
Good fit when
You run a team from meetings.
Commitments made in a meeting are supposed to land on a tracker, and often stay in the notes.
The morning starts by scanning a calendar and an inbox to work out the shape of the day.
Follow-ups you owe sit in threads you have not opened since you sent the last message.
You want the brief and the drafts, not something acting in the team's tools unread.
Setting it up
Connect the shared apps once.
One set of connections
All four use the mailbox, calendar, and the place you track work. You connect each once, not once per task.
Keep the ones you want
Every task has a checkbox and they all start ticked. Unticking one drops it, and drops whatever it was the only task that needed.
One preview to read
They run a preview on your real work with every action held back. You read what they would have done before any of it is real.
What it costs
Setting all four up is free. Running them is what counts.
You install all four and read all four preview runs whatever plan you are on. What your plan limits is how many run on their own afterwards.
They all run free for 14 days, then they stop until you upgrade.
Pro is $20 a month and runs five at a time, so this playbook fits inside it.
Set up the Manager playbook.
Connect the mailbox, the calendar and the tracker, read the preview on your own week, and approve.