Office Productivity

Our inboxes, calendars and chat threads can easily hijack our best intentions for deep work, clear boundaries and healthy collaboration. That’s where Viva Insights for Outlook help. Embedding actionable, personal insights right in your email client to help you reclaim time, prioritise meaningful work, and protect your wellbeing.Below are the top features about Viva Insights.: […]

Best Outlook AI Companion for Writing Emails Outlook remains the go-to email tool for millions of professionals. It’s use for so many cases, we could fill the entire blog just about this: closing deals, reporting to clients, or managing internal updates, speaking with students, colleagues from high-school… your day runs on emails. But here’s the […]

We use Email Signatures at Actor and we’ve found out how important are those for businesses using Microsoft Exchange / Outlook Cloud. Here’s our vendor-neutral guide to centrally managing Outlook email signatures across Microsoft 365 (cloud) and on-prem/hosted Exchange—with all the well-known options in one place, plus what each is best for. Option Works with […]

Your email signature is more than just your name at the bottom of an email. It shows professionalism, gives people an easy way to reach you, and keeps your communication consistent. In Outlook, you can set it up once and it will appear automatically on every new email or reply. How to Create an Email […]

Reddit is a community driven platform that is very helpful for millions of users. Here’s our top list of communities related to productivity they you should follow, engage and learn from. Core Productivity & Self-Improvement Time Management & Systems Study & Academic Productivity Habits, Mindset & Lifestyle Career & Work Productivity Tools, Tech & Note-Taking […]

Executive Assistants are very important for executives, managers, directors. Their support is very valuable, even if not very visible. How to be proactive as an EA when you have free time Being an executive assistant isn’t always about reacting to tasks. The best moments to shine are often when things are quiet, and you can […]

After describing Viva Insights Outlook add-in in another post, here’s how ActorDo Outlook plugin it’s a good alternative to Viva Insights. We’ll start with the most clear difference: From this perspective, Viva Insights moves a bit faster and feels more natural within Outlook. ActorDo is perfectly integrated in terms of interface and works as good […]

Scheduling meetings shouldn’t be expensive or complicated. That’s why we built the Actor Appointment Scheduler — a simple tool that works across all your calendars and gives you full control over how meetings get booked. Works Across All Your Calendars Most of us have more than one calendar — work, personal, side projects. Actor checks […]

If you’d like to keep your Outlook and Gmail (Google Contacts) lists synchronized, here are your best options. From manual methods to third-party tools that support automatic syncing: ActorDO, as an AI Assistant has this feature in our backlog. However it’s not yet implemented. Manual Syncing (Free) Export from Outlook and Import into Gmail This […]