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Readouts: Summaries for your Email and Messaging

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This page provides an overview of Readouts. If you're ready to enable Readouts, see How to get email and messaging reports (Readouts).

What are Readouts?

Readouts summarize your emails and chart messages alongside meeting content, helping you stay organized and on top of your inbox. The currently supported apps are Gmail and Outlook for email, and Slack and Teams for messaging. 

Readouts are generated automatically, based on the significant topics or workstreams that Read's AI models are able to detect from your communication. This will allow you to easily track progress along the major themes or projects that are most relevant to your work.

You can easily filter to your Readout reports by selecting "Topic Readouts" from the Type filter on your Reports page: 

Contents of a Readout

Starting from the top and moving down the page, you'll find:

  • Summary: This is a recap of what has been discussed for this particular topic.
  • Takeaways: This section includes the action items and key questions identified from your conversations about this topic. By default, these are sorted by relevance to you, but you can also sort them by time. You can also click on the Ask Read links for particular takeaways to easily query among all of your meeting content and connected sources to help you find the answers to these bullet points.
  • Recent Conversations: This section includes a timeline of the updates and takeaways, organized chronologically going back to the beginning of the report.

Then on the right side of the report, you'll see a panel with two different tabs:

  • Overview: This lists the number and type of sources (i.e. how many email threads, messages, or channels were used to generate this report), along with keywords associated with the report and the list of who contributed to it.
  • Sources: This is where you can dig further into the actual sources of information in the Readout.
    • By default, this tab shows the different email threads or messaging channels that contributed to the report, along with links to view them in the source app.
    • When you click on different aspects in the report, like an action item or key question, the Sources tab will show the relevant excerpt from the email or message behind that item, along with a link to view it in the source.

Privacy and Security

Read knows that emails and messages often contain very private and sensitive information, but rest assured that privacy and security has been a core principle at Read since day one. To learn more about Read's commitment to privacy and security, please see this overview and FAQ.

By default, Readouts are not shared with others and are completely private to your account. You can choose to share them with other Read users (or later un-share them) using the "Share" button at the top of the report. 

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