There is no shortage of AI tools. What most professionals need is a better way to use the ones they already have.

Microsoft's 2025 Work Trend Index found that, among its most heavily interrupted Microsoft 365 users, work-related pings averaged 275 per day across a 24-hour period. It's a striking picture of how fragmented modern work has become.

AI won't eliminate every interruption. But it can reduce the manual work that follows them: rewriting notes, organizing tasks, preparing updates, reviewing information, and starting documents from scratch.

Here are five workflows worth trying.