Synced, the AI inbox assistant, can create documents when a message or your own request calls for one. It produces Word documents, PowerPoint decks, Excel spreadsheets, and PDFs, using context from your connected mail and files and the brand colors and fonts you set. The finished file is attached to a draft reply in Decide for your approval, and every file Synced creates is kept in the Files screen. You can ask for changes and Synced revises the same document.
The file types Synced can create
Word documents
One-pagers, memos, briefs, proposals, and meeting notes as .docx files.
PowerPoint decks
Slide decks as .pptx, including rebuilding a deck someone sent you with changes.
Excel spreadsheets
Trackers, budgets, and tables as .xlsx files.
PDFs
Finished documents for sending when the other person shouldn't be editing.
From a late-night request to an attached deck
Documents start the same way as everything else in Synced: a message comes in, or you ask for something directly. Synced reads the request, gathers the material (the thread, attachments on the message, files in Drive or OneDrive), builds the file, and checks it before handing it to you.
An illustration. The deck and the reply wait in Decide. Open the file to check it before you send.
Revising a document without starting over
First drafts of decks are rarely final. Tap Reprompt on the approval card and say what to change ("swap slides 2 and 3", "add a column for Q2", "cut it to one page"), and Synced edits the same file rather than generating a new one from nothing.
The same works days later from a different conversation. Ask for changes to "the budget tracker from last week" and Synced searches the files it already made before assuming it needs to build a new one.
Brand colors and fonts on every file
In Settings, Brand lets you pick a header font, a body font, and a primary color. Synced works out the background, surface, secondary, and accent colors from the primary, and applies the set to every Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and PDF file it makes. So the deck for Nadia doesn't arrive in default blue.
Finding documents in the Files screen
Every file Synced creates is saved to Files, reachable from the top of Messages. Filter by All, PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, images, or ZIP, search by name, open a file to read it, share it through your phone's share sheet, or select several and delete them. Files made for a specific request also show up on the related Task and in the conversation.
Limits of Synced document creation
- Synced doesn't edit files in place in Google Drive or OneDrive. It reads them (Drive access is read-only) and creates a new file.
- No Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides output. Files come out as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or PDF.
- It can't invent the numbers. If the figures a deck needs aren't in your connected sources, Synced asks you for them in Decide.
- Documents aren't sent anywhere until you approve the message they're attached to.
For heavily designed pitch decks with custom illustration, a designer and a presentation tool will still do better. Synced is for the deck you need by 9 AM that has the right numbers in it.