Cortana

Yevhenii Tomberg

What is Cortana?

Cortana is a personal productivity assistant in Microsoft 365, helping your users achieve more with less effort and focus on what matters. The Cortana app in Windows 11 helps users quickly get information across Microsoft 365, using typed or spoken queries.

Main interface

What can you do with Cortana?

You can use following features using Cortana:

• Manage your calendar and keep your schedule up to date
• Join a meeting in Microsoft Teams or find out who your next meeting is with
• Create and manage lists
• Set reminders and alarms
• Find facts, definitions, and info
• Open apps on your computer, etc.

Let's see some simple commands what we can say to Cortana.

Calendar and Schedule Assistance

Cortana can help you manage your calendar. After you sign in to Cortana, you can connect your personal calendar or your work or school calendar so you can always keep track of your schedule.

• Am I free at 12:30 PM?

Calendar checking

• What's next on my calendar?

Calendar checking

Meeting Help

Cortana can help you quickly join an online meeting in Microsoft Teams using following queries:

• Join my meeting
• Who's my next meeting with?
• When is my next meeting with Pavel?
• Book a meeting with [person] at [time] about [topic]

Find Out About People in Your Organization

When you're signed in with your work or school account, Cortana can help you learn about people in your organization using following queries:

• Who is [employee name]?
• Who is [employee name]'s boss?

Make Lists and Set Reminders and Alarms

Cortana makes it easy to keep track of everything that needs to get done. You can ask Cortana to create a new list or add something to a list you already have.

• Add call Stanislav at 5 PM about my employment to task list

Task adding

And when you need to update or delete a task, just go into the To Do app on your PC to see and edit all of your lists.

Microsoft To Do

You can also ask Cortana to set a reminder or an alarm when you need to get something done. Try:

• Remind me to buy bread in Maxima after class at 7 pm

Microsoft To Do

• Set an alarm for 11 am

Alarm setting

Open Apps

• Open Microsoft Teams

Open teams

• Open Bluetooth settings

Bluetooth

Get Definitions and Quick Answers

• What's the definition of integer?

Definition finding

• How tall is Tallinn TV Tower?

Tallinn TV Tower

• How much is 1000 USD in EUR?

Currency exchange

Get Weather Forecast and News Updates

• Weather forecast

Weather forecast

• Will it raining tomorrow?

Rain tomorrow

• News about Ukraine

Showing news

Sources

1. What Can I Do With Cortana in Windows? (Microsoft Article)
2. Official Microsoft Cortana Documentation