No IT department
“It's just me. Work and personal live in the same inbox, and nobody administers my account but me.”
Most tooling in this space assumes there is someone above you: an admin who approves the app, a domain to verify, a plan to be on. If you are the whole company, that is a wall before the first useful minute.
An ordinary personal Google account connects here exactly like a Workspace one. You click Connect, you approve the scopes yourself, and you are done — because the account you are approving is the account you own.
The skills below are the ones that pay off fastest when nobody else is going to do the work: the inbox, the week, and the documents you keep meaning to tidy.
“My inbox is full of things I don't need to read, and the two that matter are buried.”
A clean inbox and one self-addressed digest of what actually needs you, labelled so every action can be audited or undone.
“I have meetings across three calendars and I find out about conflicts the morning of.”
A week-ahead agenda across every account, with conflicts and unanswered invites called out.
“Every morning I open three inboxes and two calendars to find out what today actually needs from me, and I still miss the clash between them.”
One self-addressed brief: today's events across every calendar with the conflicts called out, the mail that needs a human grouped by account, and a task created for each thing you owe someone, with the noise labelled and marked read so it can be audited or undone.
“Every Friday someone asks what I got done this week, and I rebuild the answer from memory.”
A written weekly update in Google Docs, built from your own calendar and sent mail, with a Sheet that indexes every week.
“The same report lands in my inbox every week and I file it by hand, or I forget to.”
Attachments filed into the right Drive folder, without the files ever passing through the conversation.
“The assistant reads my doc, tells me what to change, and then makes me go and change it myself.”
The edit applied in the document, in the right place, without a rewrite of everything around it.
“The summary already exists. Turning it into slides is an hour of work nobody wants to do.”
A structured deck built from the document you already wrote, ready to edit rather than ready to present.
Not quite you?
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