Your morning,
sorted.

What lands every morning

One page, before 7 AM

The setup

Five steps

1. Get Claude on a paid plan

   Go to claude.ai and sign up. Scheduled tasks need a paid plan (Pro or higher). The free plan can't run anything on a schedule.

2. Connect Gmail and Google Calendar

   In a new chat, click +, then Connectors, and turn on Gmail and Google Calendar. Sign in with your Google account and approve the permission screen.

   On a work Google account, your admin may need to mark Claude as trusted first. Using Outlook? Connect Microsoft 365 instead; a work account needs admin approval.

3. Copy the prompt

   This is the whole brief. Change the time or the word count if you want.

   Every weekday morning, build my Morning Brief from my Gmail and Google Calendar. Keep it under 250 words.
   
   1. TODAY: my calendar events in time order. One line each: time, what, where or link. Flag conflicts and back-to-back meetings with no break.
   
   2. WAITING ON ME: emails from the last 24 hours (on Monday, since Friday) that need a reply or a decision from me. Skip newsletters, receipts, promotions, and automated notifications. One line each: who, what they want, by when. Top 7, most urgent first.
   
   3. TOP 3: the three things that would make today a win, based on the above.
   
   4. DRAFTS: for the two most urgent emails, write a short reply in my voice and save it as a Gmail draft. Never send anything.
   
   If something is unclear, say so in one line instead of guessing.

   Copy the prompt

4. Schedule it

   Paste the prompt into a new chat and add one line:

   Schedule this every weekday at 6:30 AM.

   Claude shows you the name, the time, and the instructions. Check them and click Schedule. It runs in the cloud, so your laptop can be closed.

5. Read it for a week, then tune it

   The first few briefs will be too long or include things you don't care about. Don't quit; tell Claude what to change: "shorter," "skip anything from the school PTA," "put meetings with clients first." By Friday it reads like you wrote it.

Ground rules

Keep it safe