How to automatically identify your most important tasks from emails and calendar events

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Merlin finds your highest-impact priorities from inbox and calendar, then helps you complete them with a single click

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1. Merlin scans through your emails and calendar automatically to spot which tasks will make the biggest difference to your work
2. The tool ranks your priorities based on deadlines, sender importance, and how much impact each task has on your goals
3. Instead of manually sorting through hundreds of emails, Merlin pulls out the critical action items and presents them in one clean list
4. You can complete identified tasks with just one click, eliminating the back-and-forth between your inbox, calendar, and task management
5. The system learns from your work patterns over time, getting better at recognizing what truly matters versus what can wait