Tencent Buddy One is here, office ecosystem one-click connected WorkBuddy (with tutorial)

This is Cang He's 615th original article!

Hello everyone, I'm Cang He.

Fellas, Tencent has been keeping a big move this time.

It officially launched the cross-application AI collaboration system Buddy One, which connects WorkBuddy, Tencent Meeting, Tencent Docs, ima, and Tencent Cloud Drive in one click.

See how to connect: workbuddy.cn/buddyone

Honestly, I use these apps every day, but they've always worked separately.

After a meeting, I go to Tencent Meeting for minutes, write plans in Tencent Docs, search resources in ima, and store files in Cloud Drive. AI credits are also purchased separately for each app, and they hit the limit quickly.

Buddy One is meant to solve this. Its slogan is "Each does what it does best, working as one." In English it's "Buddy One, Work as One."

In short, each app continues doing what it's best at, with data and credits linked, and a single sentence can mobilize all four ends.

I experienced it in WorkBuddy. After linking accounts and completing necessary authorization, I just tell it what to do.

Searching for materials, organizing content, storing results — tasks that used to require switching between several apps can now be handed over to it in a chain.

This got me excited, and I hurriedly sorted out six playstyles to share with everyone. Tutorials will also be uploaded to the WorkBuddy Blue Book.

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Account linking is free

Open the Buddy One website, log in with your account, and click "Link now."

Linking a Buddy One ID is free. After completing account linking and necessary authorization, you can search across apps and execute tasks in WorkBuddy, and credits and membership benefits can be managed in one place.

After binding or upgrading a Buddy One ID, you'll also immediately receive 100 credits, with a notification in the message center. You can also claim a mystery box in the growth plan; the entry is at the end of this article.

You can see which accounts are linked in "Personal Center → Account Settings."

After joining, WorkBuddy credits will default to Buddy One credits, usable across WorkBuddy, Tencent Docs, ima, and Tencent Cloud Drive (Tencent Meeting is not yet involved in credit consumption).

Plan credits, event-given ones, and self-purchased ones all go into the same credit pool.

Previously, when one app's quota ran out, you had to go to that app and buy more separately. Now one pool is shared across all four ends, so tasks won't be blocked by quota halfway through.

Products like ima and Tencent Docs will default to using Buddy One credits first, but you can also manually choose which type of credits to use.

Meeting minutes sorting and archiving

A few days ago, our product WeSight received quite a few suggestions and feedback from users at the expo.

After returning, we held a meeting about these feedback to discuss how to optimize in the future.

After the meeting, minutes needed to be sorted, and key points needed to be saved into the knowledge base.

These tasks that originally required me to manually move back and forth, this time I handed them all to WorkBuddy.

Prompt: Retrieve the minutes of my most recent meeting, organize them into structured meeting minutes, write them into a Tencent Doc, including topics, conclusions, and a to-do list (with responsible persons and deadlines). Extract the core conclusions into a 300-word summary and store it in the ima knowledge base, archive the original materials to Cloud Drive in the "Meeting Archive" folder. After completion, send me the document link.

It found the minutes in Tencent Meeting, organized the topics, conclusions, and to-dos, and created a Tencent Doc.

Opening ima, the refined meeting key points were also saved to the knowledge base.

The archived files can also be seen in Cloud Drive.

This is comfortable. The full minutes are placed in the document for easy collaboration, key points stay in the knowledge base for later reference, and original materials are archived, so I don't have to manually move them across apps.

Meeting to-do query

Last week we had a CodexGuide product optimization meeting.

Today I was thinking, what were the to-dos from that meeting last week?

Suddenly I couldn't remember, so I directly asked WorkBuddy.

Prompt: Give me the to-do list for CodexGuide

Several to-dos were listed directly, no need to go through the entire meeting from scratch. It's quite convenient.

Summarizing meeting minutes to generate a weekly report

I wonder if everyone has this kind of trouble.

Several projects are advancing simultaneously, and after a busy week, when reviewing, I have to recall what I did.

So I asked WorkBuddy to organize all the meeting minutes from last week.

Prompt: Summarize all my meeting minutes from last week and write them into a weekly report document. For each project, write out this week's progress, key decisions, and next week's to-dos, and attach the document links for each meeting.

The progress, decisions, and to-dos for each project were organized, and meeting document links were attached, so you can click back to check details if needed.

After adding work that wasn't mentioned in the meetings, I had a fairly complete draft of the weekly report.

Cross-app search for GEO materials

When writing articles or making plans, I often need to go through previously saved materials.

For example, recently when organizing materials related to GEO, some are in Tencent Docs, some in ima, and some in Cloud Drive. I remember writing it, but I can't recall the file names or where they are stored.

This time I directly asked WorkBuddy to search across apps.

Prompt: Help me search all materials related to "Brand GEO Diagnosis" across Tencent Docs, ima knowledge base, Tencent Cloud Drive, and meeting minutes, and list them out with titles, locations, and a one-sentence content description.

It gathered the found materials into a list, with titles, locations, and content descriptions.

A glance tells me which one is useful, and I can follow the source to open the original.

As long as you remember the general content, you can search across all of them, saving you from going through each app separately.

Using knowledge base materials to write articles

Since materials can be found, I wanted to try using articles in the knowledge base for writing.

I asked WorkBuddy to check what knowledge bases are in ima.

I opened ima to compare, and indeed, they matched.

So I asked it to do a cross-search of the two knowledge bases and write a draft of an OpenClaw hands-on tutorial.

Prompt: Cross-search materials from the ima knowledge bases "Cang He's Articles" and "OpenClaw from Beginner to Master", and write a draft of an OpenClaw hands-on tutorial. It requires specific operation steps, pitfalls to avoid, and a colloquial style. Put it in Tencent Docs, and also give me three alternative titles.

The draft was directly written into Tencent Docs. I opened it and checked; it really has a bit of my usual writing style, and the cited materials have sources marked, which is easy to verify.

Articles I previously stored became the material for a new draft.

Previously when sharing the Obsidian knowledge base, some friends asked, since they aren't used to Obsidian, is there a simpler way?

I think WorkBuddy paired with ima is worth trying. Store materials in ima, and when needed, let WorkBuddy find them and organize them into a draft, without having to set up a local workflow yourself.

Following this idea, inspiration in ima can also be paired with Cloud Drive materials to make poster copy or creative plans.

Project material backup and organization

Beyond articles, I also tried organizing local project files.

When making the WeSight promotional video before, I accumulated nearly 1GB of materials that have been taking up space on my computer, so I wanted to back them up to Cloud Drive.

These files are recognizable now, but if I open them a few months later, I might have to think hard about which ones are final versions and which are reference materials.

So this backup, I also asked it to write a material description document.

Prompt: Back up this local project folder completely to Tencent Cloud Drive in the "Project Backup" folder, and also generate a material description document (listing what each file is and when it was used), saved as a Tencent Doc.

This way, the original files are in Cloud Drive and the material description stays in Tencent Docs. Next time I open these files, I can read the description first to know what each material is for.

After the backup is complete, I also need to check whether all files have been uploaded and whether the directory is correct.

With the files stored and the description in place, this organization is finally finished.

Buddy One VIP also includes 1TB shared storage, shared by the WorkBuddy database, Tencent Docs, ima, and Tencent Cloud Drive, useful for storing materials, writing drafts, and backing up files.

What's shared is the capacity; file access still follows each app's permissions.

Seeing this, some friends might ask: how much does this cost?

If you want to try it, no need to rush into buying a membership. By binding a free Buddy One ID, you can use your own materials to experience cross-app search, and you can also claim the 100 credits first.

I also did the math: WorkBuddy flagship is 700 yuan, Tencent Meeting Professional is 88 yuan, Tencent Docs Super Member Plus is 38 yuan, and if bought separately as a monthly subscription, it would be 826 yuan.

Buddy One VIP monthly subscription is 700 yuan/month, with a marked price of 1399 yuan, limited-time 50% off, which is 126 yuan less than buying separately.

It's like paying for one flagship subscription and getting the Meeting and Docs memberships included.

There are also 50,000 universal credits per month (20,000 base + 30,000 bonus), and the previously mentioned 1TB shared space. All four memberships are on one bill, one renewal date, so you don't have to remember multiple payment times.

Existing WorkBuddy flagship users can upgrade to Buddy One VIP for free, with no price increase, more benefits and the same price.

After purchasing VIP, my WorkBuddy is now the Buddy One VIP package, with a lot of credits, so I can pedal hard.

This trial, what I felt was most convenient, is that past actions can be continued later.

After a meeting, the content can be further organized into a plan; when writing a new draft, previously stored articles can be found and used as material. No need to search and copy between several apps yourself, and your tasks have fewer interruptions.

This is probably what Buddy One means by "each does what it does best, working as one."

For me, being a material porter fewer times is more practical than having one more chat window.

Now there's a growing trend: major tech companies are unifying subscription management for their various products, with shared credits, so users can subscribe once and enjoy different products under the company.

I think this is more convenient: account system, credit system, and AI quotas are all connected, and the walls between products are torn down.

Overseas, this has been going on for a while. Google bundles Gemini and cloud storage into its membership, Microsoft stuffs Copilot into Microsoft 365. X subscription can enjoy Grok Bot and Cursor quotas.

In the end, the second half of AI is about ecosystems.

No matter how strong a single app's AI is, it can only see its own patch of data.

The ceiling of an agent depends on how much context it can get.

Meetings, documents, knowledge bases, and files scattered across four apps are four data silos for AI.

And Tencent happens to hold the entire product matrix of office collaboration, knowledge management, cloud storage, and AI agents.

Once the account, credit, and data layers are unified, agents can truly have room to work.

From a user perspective, it solves subscription fatigue, no need to pay separately for each app or remember separate renewal dates.

From Tencent's perspective, it's turning individual point products into a collaborative network.

According to the official plan, this phase focuses on data interoperability, with memory interoperability coming in phase two. Once memory is also connected, AI will truly understand you.

If you want to try it, you can bind a free ID first, claim the credits and mystery box, then decide whether to go VIP:

Which step costs you the most time? Chat in the comments. If you found it useful, tap "Watching" and we'll see you in the next article.