01The afternoon after the meeting
Picture the five o'clock meeting. The important things have been said and three chores remain that aren't work, just logistics: copy what was discussed into a document and leave it where the team will find it; find the email in which the accountant asked for the papers (was it Monday or Tuesday?); and move Thursday's appointment to six, because it no longer fits. Each one is ten minutes of tabs, and the afternoon goes into them.
That is the problem I wanted to lift off you. Saelyx already prepares the minutes of your meetings; what was missing was reaching the place where the work really ends: your email, your calendar, your files.
02What it reads and what it prepares
You connect your Microsoft account, block by block, and ask for things by talking (on the Mac, iPhone and iPad) or in the web chat:
- Email. It searches by text, sender, days or unread only, and reads one in full. “Read me the latest email from the accountant.” It also drafts a new email or a reply, but that waits for your yes.
- Calendar. It shows your upcoming events and creates, moves or cancels one, with a Teams link if your account is a work one. “Move the five o'clock one to six.”
- Tasks and people. It creates and completes To Do tasks, turns a meeting's action items into tasks (“Turn today's meeting action items into tasks”) and looks someone up by name to fill in recipients.
- OneNote and Teams. It saves a note or the minutes to a notebook called Saelyx, and looks at your teams and channels so it can post to one.
That's 21 tools, and Saelyx picks them; you talk as usual. It has two limits I wanted to make plain: it doesn't wander through your email on its own (without the read-email block there is no email) and it doesn't read your Teams messages.
03What waits for your yes
Reading and searching are yours and reversible. What leaves your account is not: sending an email or a reply, creating, moving or cancelling an event, posting to a Teams channel. For all of that Saelyx first prepares a draft, reads it to you (who, what and when) and waits. Until you say yes, it doesn't say “sent” or “created”.
- A yes works once and expires after ten minutes. If you say no, it discards the draft.
- If the network drops in the middle of a send, Saelyx tells you it doesn't know whether it went out, instead of repeating it. Check your Sent folder before trying again.
- There's a limit of 25 sends a day: emails, channel messages and events that notify other people all count.
- It doesn't copy your mailbox. Saelyx doesn't sync your emails or your events: it reads them when you ask, and what it reads stays in that conversation's history for the periods in the privacy policy.
A plain warning: Saelyx can't undo an email once it's sent. Listen to the draft before you say yes.
04The minutes, all the way to where they belong
When the minutes are ready, Saelyx can copy them on its own to your OneDrive or
SharePoint, as a Word document in a folder per meeting (by default,
Saelyx/Actas). The transcript is copied only if you turn that on, and it
carries the voices of everyone else: save it only if they know.
From the meeting, the minutes go out by two routes, both with a preview:
- By Outlook. It suggests the attendees of the event in your calendar as recipients, lets you add a note and sends the minutes in the body of the email and, if they aren't too large, as a Word attachment. It leaves from your own mailbox.
- To Teams. It posts a summary in the meeting chat, or in a channel if you ask, and it needs a work or school account.
05Files in both directions
Outwards: “Save that report to my OneDrive.” It goes to the folder you chose, and if one with the same name was already there, it replaces it without warning; that is the only thing it touches. Inwards: “Find the accountant's contract in my OneDrive” and “Import it to my files.” Saelyx keeps a copy and the original stays as it was, up to 25 MB (2 MB if it goes to your knowledge, which takes only text and HTML).
It opens only the file you choose and never deletes anything from your OneDrive or SharePoint.
06In a company account
Some organizations require an administrator to approve Saelyx before any user can grant permissions. Then you see “Your organization needs an administrator to approve Saelyx before this permission can be granted”, with two buttons: open the guide for administrators and copy a message for yours. The administrators' page explains which permissions it asks for, how to approve them and how to revoke them. They are delegated permissions: if nobody has connected an account, Saelyx reaches nothing.
Two details. With a personal account, SharePoint, the Teams chat and channels aren't available; the rest is. And while publisher verification is still pending, the Microsoft screen may show “unverified” next to the name.
07Disconnecting
You tap Disconnect Microsoft in the Microsoft 365 sheet and Saelyx stops reading your calendar, saving or sending minutes, and working with your email, tasks and files. What is already in your OneDrive or SharePoint isn't deleted, and you can also revoke access from your Microsoft account.
08And Google Workspace
The same idea and the same rule are arriving for Google Workspace, but in early access while Google completes the verification of the app: it isn't open to everyone yet. Chat and Meet need a Google Workspace account; a personal Gmail won't do.
09Frequently asked questions
Which plan do I need?
All of this belongs to the Pro plan. Access to Saelyx is by invitation; pricing has the details.
What if my company won't let me grant the permission?
It's a planned case: an administrator in your organization has to approve Saelyx once. The app gives you the guide for them and a message ready to copy.
Can I disconnect whenever I want?
Yes. You disconnect from the Microsoft 365 sheet, or revoke access from your Microsoft account. What you already saved to OneDrive or SharePoint stays.
— Adianny
Senior DevOps engineer. I've spent about four years working with machine learning and MLOps, now as a tech lead; Saelyx is my side project.