Default Summary Types | Single-Click Summaries

Explore all built-in Single-Click Summary types in Pieces, including Day Recap, Standup Update, Time Breakdown, and more.

Default Summary Types

Single-Click Summaries include preset summary types designed for common workflow needs. Each type generates insights tailored to your specific work patterns and captured activities.

Summary Type Description
Today's Headlines Breaking news and headlines personalized to your professional world, based on your recent work context.
What's Top of Mind Identifies recurring topics and priorities from your recent workflow, ranked by importance.
Morning Brief Provides everything you need to kickstart your day, compiled from your recent activities.
Standup Update Generates a three-part update: what you did, what's next, and blockers—perfect for team standups.
Meeting Prep Adds prep events to your Google Calendar based on upcoming meetings, giving you time to review context and prepare.
Day Recap Compiles an end-of-day summary of your accomplishments, completed tasks, and overall activity.
Time Breakdown Organizes your daily work into projects with in-depth time breakdowns, showing what you worked on per project throughout the day.
Week Recap Provides a comprehensive overview of your week at a glance, including key activities and patterns.
AI Habits Analyzes how you interact with AI tools, showing patterns in questions asked and topics queried.
Professional Persona Provides work style analysis and professional summary based on your workflow patterns.
Collaboration Patterns Identifies who you work with and how, revealing collaboration dynamics in your workflow.

Today's Headlines

Personalized industry news based on your recent work context.

Uses Perplexity to find news articles and headlines related to what you've been working on, delivering a bite-sized overview of your industry—so you stay informed without leaving your workflow.

When to use:

  • Start your day informed — Catch up on industry trends relevant to your projects
  • Prepare for client calls — Have talking points ready from current news
  • Stay current passively — No extra research needed

What's Top of Mind

Recurring topics and priorities from your recent workflow, ranked by importance.

Helps you understand what's been occupying your attention and what matters most in your current work—surfacing themes you might not have noticed.

When to use:

  • Prioritize your day — See what actually needs attention first
  • Identify focus drains — Spot what's consuming your mental energy
  • Reset after distractions — Get back on track quickly

Standup Update

Three-part update: what you did, what's next, and blockers.

Generates a ready-to-share standup format perfect for team meetings. Copy it directly into Slack, Teams, or your standup bot.

When to use:

  • Daily standups — Walk in prepared with your update written
  • Manager check-ins — Share progress without scrambling to remember
  • Async updates — Post status updates in Slack or Teams

Meeting Prep

Adds prep events to your Google Calendar based on upcoming meetings.

Analyzes your captured workflow context—recent documents, conversations, and activities related to each meeting's attendees and topics—and creates calendar events that give you time to review before you join.

When to use:

  • Block prep time — Get calendar events for meeting preparation
  • Review context — See relevant docs and notes before important meetings
  • Recall history — Remember past conversations with attendees

Day Recap

Concise summary of your accomplishments, blockers, and feedback from today's activity.

Compiles an end-of-day summary ready to share or save—so you have a clear record of what you got done.

When to use:

  • Log off for the day — Wrap up with a clear record of what you accomplished
  • Tomorrow's standup — Have yesterday's wins and blockers ready to share
  • Check in with your manager — Show concrete progress without digging through tickets

Time Breakdown

Organizes your work into projects with in-depth time breakdowns.

Reconstructs your billable hours from captured workstream context—categorizing activity by project and providing structured time blocks you can review, refine, and submit.

When to use:

  • Fill out your timesheet — Accurate hours without manual tracking
  • Invoice clients — Billable hours organized by project
  • Review where time went — See what you actually worked on

Tap Discover More from your Home Dashboard to find Time Breakdown. Choose a preset time range that matches your reporting needs:

  • Last 24 Hours — Daily timesheet submissions
  • Last 2 Days — Catch up on a missed day
  • Last Week — Weekly billing cycles or sprint reviews
  • Last 2 Weeks — Bi-weekly invoicing
  • Last 30 Days — Monthly reviews or end-of-month billing
Time ranges longer than 24 hours can take longer to generate—sometimes 15 minutes or more—depending on the amount of data to process.

Once generated, you can view, edit, copy, export, or use the Time Breakdown as context for a Conversational Search chat to ask follow-up questions.

Week Recap

Comprehensive overview of your week at a glance.

Provides a high-level view of your weekly productivity, accomplishments, and patterns—so you can wrap up the week informed.

When to use:

  • Friday wrap-up — End the week with a clear picture of what you did
  • Weekly team reviews — Come prepared with your week's highlights
  • Plan next week — Reflect on what happened before deciding what's next

Morning Brief

Everything you need to kickstart your day, compiled from your recent activities.

Starts your day informed about what you've been working on and what's coming up—no digging through emails or notes.

When to use:

  • Start your workday — Jump in with full context
  • Return from time off — Get back up to speed quickly
  • Review your plate — See what's on deck today

Professional Persona

Work style analysis and professional summary based on your workflow patterns.

Surfaces your professional habits, strengths, and work patterns—giving you language for how you actually work.

When to use:

  • Update LinkedIn or resume — Get accurate descriptions of your work style
  • Performance reviews — Have concrete examples of your strengths
  • Self-reflection — Understand how you work best

Collaboration Patterns

Identifies who you work with and how, revealing collaboration dynamics.

Discovers your collaboration habits and team interaction patterns—showing your working relationships at a glance.

When to use:

  • Identify key collaborators — See who you've been working with on a project
  • Prepare for 1:1s — Review your recent interactions with a teammate
  • Understand your footprint — See your collaboration patterns across the team

AI Habits

Analyzes how you interact with AI tools, showing patterns in questions and topics.

Helps you understand your AI usage patterns and how you leverage AI assistance in your workflow.

When to use:

  • Reflect on AI usage — See how you've been using AI tools
  • Identify common topics — Spot what you ask AI about most
  • Optimize your workflow — Find opportunities to use AI more effectively


Want to create your own summary types? See Customization & Templates.