Get a weekly summary of overdue work

Set up an AI worker that reviews overdue tasks and gives you a short report of what needs attention.

Get a plain summary of what is late, who it belongs to and what to do next, without going through every project yourself.

Steps

Open AI Workers in the sidebar and select Create your own.
In What should your worker do?, describe the job. For example: "Review tasks that are past their due date. Group them by project and by who they are assigned to, note anything blocked, and suggest one next step for each. Do not change any tasks." See Write worker instructions.
Enter a Name, such as "Overdue work reviewer".
Open Advanced settings and, under Workspace changes, choose Read and prepare files only, so the worker can read your tasks but not change them. See Worker access and approvals.
Select Create worker.
On the worker page, under Give [worker] work, write this week's job, such as "Summarise overdue work as of today", and select Start work.
Open AI Workers › Work, open the assignment, and read the summary. Check a few of the tasks it lists against Productivity › Tasks.
Select Accept work if it is right, or Request changes and say what to fix. See Review worker results.

Worker result ready for review, with Request changes and Accept work

You're done when you have an accepted summary of overdue work in AI Workers › Work, and a worker you can give the same job to each week.

A worker does not run on a schedule by itself. Give it the job each time, for example every Monday morning.
If the summary misses tasks or lists the wrong ones, make the instructions more specific, such as naming the projects to check.
Once you trust the results, you can switch Workspace changes to Ask me before making changes. You then approve each change it suggests.