Follow along with the webinar: Codex for everyday work
Use this guide to follow along with the Codex for everyday work webinar. You’ll see how Codex can help with everyday work by creating and updating real outputs, working across context, and giving you a clear loop for handing off tasks and reviewing the result.
Codex is a coding agent from OpenAI, but the patterns in this webinar are useful beyond software teams: project briefs, trackers, decks, summaries, workflows, and daily planning.
Resources to bookmark
What to remember
Key ideas
- Codex can help you build usable outputs across the tools and files where work already happens.
- A good first task is useful this week, specific enough to hand off, and easy to review.
- Codex works best as a loop: give a clear assignment, review the result, then steer the next version.
Mini-demo: Create and revise a file
Key ideas
- Codex can create actual files in a project folder, not just suggest text.
- You can inspect the files yourself and ask Codex to revise them.
- A small first task is a good way to build confidence before trying a larger workflow.
Follow along
Use this prompt in Codex (try Voice Mode for fun!):
Create a file called team-announcement.txt with a short announcement that says our team is testing Codex this week. Keep it friendly, clear, and under 100 words.
Oh, and create an image that says "you can just build things with Codex" on a blue background with white font. Add a flower icon on the top right just for fun.
Then ask Codex to revise the image:
Can you change the image by shifting the flower icon down to the bottom right?
What to notice
Create: Codex makes a text file and a simple image.
Check: Open the files in the project folder and review what Codex made.
Revise: Ask Codex for one specific change.
Notice: You are editing a real file, not just generating a one-time answer.
Demo: Build a daily work brief
Key ideas
- Work gets hard when context is spread across your calendar, messages, email, docs, and follow-ups.
- A daily work brief gives you one clear starting point for the day.
- Codex should flag missing access, uncertainty, and anything that still needs your judgment.
Follow along
Use this prompt as a starting point, then customize it with the tools and sources you actually use:
Set up a weekday work brief that starts in the morning and keeps checking throughout the day. At the start of the day, review today’s calendar, unread direct messages and mentions from the last 24 hours, unread email from the last 24 hours, and recent context that affects today’s priorities.
Create a short brief with priorities, meeting prep, messages that need replies, decisions I owe, and useful FYIs. Draft replies only when the next step is clear, and flag anything you cannot access or cannot confirm.
Review while Codex works
Clear assignment: Did you specify what to check, what to create, and what to flag?
Codex works: Watch for sources, permissions, and progress.
Review result: Confirm what Codex used and what it could not access.
Steer or repeat: Ask for changes before you rely on the brief.
Final check: confirm what Codex used, what it could not access, and what still needs your judgment.
Try one clear task this week
Pick one task that is useful, clear, and easy to review. Start small, then decide whether it should become a recurring workflow.
