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The Outlook plugin brings Langdock into Microsoft Outlook, so your email, calendar, and AI assistance stay side by side. Use it to catch up on a full inbox, get the key points from long threads, draft replies, and prepare your meetings without switching tools. Langdock knows which email or calendar event you have open, so you can ask about it directly instead of copying content into a separate chat.

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How to install Langdock for Outlook

Install the Langdock Add-in from the Microsoft Marketplace and connect it to your Langdock account. The plugin is available in Outlook on the web and desktop.
Before you can sign in, an admin needs to enable the Outlook plugin in the workspace integration settings. If it is not enabled yet, point your admin to the Plugin Setup Guide.
1

Get the Add-in

Navigate to the Langdock for Outlook page on the Microsoft Marketplace, click Get it now, and confirm your details in the dialog that appears.
Langdock for Outlook listing on the Microsoft Marketplace with the Get it now button
2

Open in Outlook

After the Add-in is added to your account, click Open in Outlook Web.
Langdock for Outlook confirmation page with the Open in Outlook Web button
3

Sign in to Langdock

Return to your inbox, open an email, and click Langdock in the Outlook toolbar. Without an open email, the apps in the toolbar are disabled. Click Continue and sign in through your browser. Copy the sign-in code, paste it into the Complete sign-in screen in Outlook, then click Continue.
Langdock sign-in screen for Microsoft Outlook with the Continue button
4

Connect Outlook

On the Connect Outlook screen, click Connect for Outlook Email and Outlook Calendar. The plugin uses these two integrations to read message content, search your mailbox, and work with your calendar. If both integrations are already connected in Langdock, this screen is skipped.
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Pin the pane

Click the pin icon at the top of the Langdock pane. Outlook closes an unpinned pane when you switch between emails. A new compose window also opens without the pane, so pin it there once as well.
Apps pane in Outlook with Langdock listed and the pin icon at the top
You can now use Langdock while Outlook stays open. Start with a specific question about the email or calendar event you are viewing.
Connect Outlook Email and Outlook Calendar with the same Microsoft account you use in Outlook. Otherwise Langdock works with a different inbox and calendar than the one in front of you. Skipping the connection is fine, you can always catch up on it later. Until then, Langdock only sees the subject and participants of the open email or event.

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Working with Langdock in Outlook

The Outlook plugin is useful whenever the work starts in your inbox or calendar. Open an email or a calendar event, open Langdock next to it, and ask for what you need.
Outlook plugin card showing the Outlook icon and text Use Langdock inside of Microsoft Outlook

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Common use cases

  • Catch up on your inbox: Get a summary of what came in and what needs your attention.
  • Summarize long threads: Pull the key points, open questions, and next steps out of a conversation without rereading every message.
  • Draft replies: Ask for a response based on the open thread, then refine tone and content in the chat.
  • Compose new emails: Ask Langdock to write or expand a draft. It can fill in the body, the subject, and the recipients.
  • Organize your inbox: Sort messages into folders and clear out what’s done.
  • Plan your week: Check your schedule, and create or update calendar events from the same conversation.

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Example: Research stats and draft the reply

Say a colleague asks for something you would normally research in a separate chat. Sarah is building a deck for a customer webinar and needs three current stats on how teams use AI at work, each with a source she can cite. Open the email, open Langdock next to it, and describe what you need.
Email with a research request open in Outlook and the Langdock pane with the prompt typed in the chat input
Ask Langdock for the research and the reply in one prompt: Find credible stats on how teams use AI at work and draft my reply with the numbers and their sources and then draft the reply to Sarah
Langdock pane in Outlook running a web search for the requested statistics
Langdock searches the web, collects the numbers with their sources, and writes the reply into the draft. You review the text in Outlook exactly as it will be sent, with every stat linked to its source.
Reply draft in Outlook written by Langdock with three sourced statistics and the Langdock pane explaining the numbers
In the chat, Langdock summarizes which numbers it used and flags the caveats. From there, keep refining: make it shorter, adjust the tone, or add a second source.

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Next steps

After the first response, you can keep working from the same panel:
  • Ask follow-up questions about the thread or event
  • Use your Skills to draft replies that follow your team’s writing guidelines
  • Enrich your reply with results from a Web Search
  • Work with your connected integrations without leaving Outlook

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Edit permissions

Langdock always asks before changing an open draft by default. You can switch from Ask before edits to Accept all edits in the Edit permissions menu in the chat input. When Langdock wants to write into the draft, the Edit Outlook draft? dialog shows the fields it is about to change:
  • Allow once: Applies the edit. Langdock asks again for the next one.
  • Always allow edits: Applies the edit and skips the dialog for the rest of the current chat.
  • Deny: Rejects the edit and leaves the draft unchanged.
In both modes, edits apply only to the open draft and never send it. Langdock sends an email or invitation only when you ask it to and confirm the action.

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Preferences

Open the plugin menu in the top bar and select Preferences to customize the plugin. Two settings shape how your plugin chats behave:
  • Instructions: Add custom instructions that apply only to chats in the Outlook plugin, for example Keep replies short and to the point.
  • Default model: Choose the model that is preselected whenever you start a new plugin chat.
Both are independent of your global account settings. You can also switch the theme and delete all plugin conversations here.