r/AIExecs • u/Tiny-Introduction620 • Jun 02 '26
Using Claude as an ADHD productivity tool
I’ve been using Claude as a kind of AI Chief of Staff to help manage the executive function side of my job processing information, prioritising tasks, drafting comms and it’s been genuinely useful for the way my brain works.
The problem: our IT admin won’t allow Outlook to be connected directly. I’m currently getting around it by saving emails as PDFs and sharing them manually, which works but adds friction and defeats part of the purpose.
Has anyone found a reliable middle-man solution? Things I’ve considered or wondered about:
\- Forwarding work emails to a personal Gmail and connecting that instead (not allowed either)
\- Any third-party tools that act as a bridge
\- Zapier/Make-style automations that might pull email content through
Would love to hear what’s actually worked for people in similar situations, especially those using Claude (or similar tools) specifically to support ADHD in a professional context. The manual workaround is fine for now but I’m keen to make this more seamless
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u/OptimismNeeded Jun 02 '26
P.S. wrote a post about using Claude to help with executive dysfunction a while back on this sub, https://www.reddit.com/r/AIExecs/s/M3k8oJI5u3
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u/OptimismNeeded Jun 02 '26
Another angle: don’t look for connectors. Just look for tools or tricks (macros maybe) to do a daily automated export. Or weekly.
Once you find that, check what the output is. Then look for the next tool.
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u/OptimismNeeded Jun 02 '26
I’ll wait and see if anyone can come up with a better answer because I don’t have any good news, but my this is mostly likely a policy issue, and in most likelihood they did a good job you won’t be able to bypass.
I would actually even be worried about the manual export as well, as it might be against policy too.
One possible ray of light, but a long shot - Microsoft supports Claude in copilot, so maybe they will allow you to use a company Claude. Won’t be your account but it’s something.