gleanwork Using Glean for Personal Productivity
This skill drives queries about the user's own work life — their recent activity, what they accomplished, what's pending, what's urgent. It pulls from user_activity, meeting_lookup, search (with from:me / owner:me), and memory to assemble a personal view rather than an enterprise-wide one.
Two shapes of question
Most personal-productivity asks fall into two shapes:
- Activity / accomplishments — "what did I work on?", "summarize my week", "what shipped?". See reference/activity.md.
- Priorities / blockers — "what's urgent?", "what needs my attention?", "what's waiting on me?". See reference/priorities.md.
The two overlap (a recent activity feed is the substrate for triaging priorities), but the output the user wants is different: activity is retrospective, priorities are prospective.
Tool reference lives in using-glean
user_activity, memory, search, and meeting_lookup are documented canonically in the using-glean skill:
../using-glean/reference/user-activity.md— date-range mechanics, the inclusive/exclusive end-date pitfall../using-glean/reference/memory.md—memory+memory_schemafor personalization../using-glean/reference/search.md— for documents the user authored or was mentioned in../using-glean/reference/meeting-lookup.md— for meetings the user attended
This skill carries the workflow on top.
Cross-cutting rules
- Quality over volume. A status update of 5 real accomplishments beats a list of 20 trivial activities. Filter aggressively per reference/activity.md.
- Distinguish "did" from "viewed".
user_activityreturns both. Surface creates / edits / decisions; demote pure views. - Cite sources. Every claim should link back to a doc, meeting, or commit so the user can verify and dig deeper.
- Personalize via memory. When framing a summary,
memory(especiallyRolesAndResponsibilitiesandActiveProjects) tells you what themes the user thinks they work on. Group by those themes when possible. - Apply vetting. Even self-activity should be filtered. See
../using-glean/reference/vetting.md.
Related skills
- project-awareness — quick status read on a project (when the user isn't the subject)
- using-glean — general enterprise knowledge search