The full prompt, the 5 connectors, and the schedule that drops a ranked daily brief in your Slack before you’re awake. Everything I actually use.
This is a Claude task that runs before you wake up, reads everything that came in overnight, and posts one ranked brief to your Slack or email by the time you’re pouring coffee.
It’s a synthesizer, not an inbox cleaner. It tells you what deserves your attention, what doesn’t, and the 3 things to do today in order. So you stop opening your laptop and drowning.
What you need
A paid Claude plan. Scheduled tasks aren’t on Free, so Pro ($20/mo, or $17/mo billed yearly) is the minimum (pricing). It works in the Claude desktop app or at claude.ai.
Your chief of staff is only as smart as what it can see. In Claude, open Customize (called Plugins on newer accounts), go to Connectors, and add these from the connector directory. Each one is a quick sign-in.
01
Google Calendar
Tells it what kind of day you’re walking into, from who’s in each meeting to what it’s about. It only needs to read. You don’t want it moving meetings on day one.
02
Gmail
Connect the inbox that gets your real work email. It looks at the last 24 hours, in and out, so it can see who’s waiting on you.
03
Slack
Most of your "who’s waiting on me" signal lives here, and it’s where the brief lands. You’ll list the channels that matter inside the prompt.
04
Your CRM or project tool
HubSpot, Asana, Linear, whatever holds your work in progress. This is where it sees deals and projects move. Don’t sell? Use your project tracker.
05
Notion and Google Drive
This is where your project briefs, goals and meeting notes live. If you use Granola for meeting notes, connect it too. More context means better dot-connecting.
This is the brain. It tells Claude where to look, who matters, what to skip, and exactly how to deliver. Copy it, then fill in every [bracket].
01
Open Scheduled
In Claude, click Scheduled in the left sidebar, then New task, then Set up manually. Name it something obvious like "Morning Brief." On the newer Claude layout you can also paste the prompt into any chat and say "run this every weekday at 6:45am," then click Schedule.
02
Paste the prompt
Drop in your filled-in prompt. Pick a model if you want one other than the default.
03
Pick the time
Choose Weekdays and set it about 30 minutes before you wake up, like 6:45am. Save, then hit run once so you can see the first brief right away.
04
Pick where it lands
A Slack canvas in a channel just for you (#daily-brief or #just-me) is best. Email works if you don’t live in Slack. Skip text or push alerts, you don’t need another notification.
Heads up
Scheduled tasks run in the cloud, so they keep going with your laptop closed. The exception: a task that needs files or apps on your computer only runs locally. This build uses connectors only, so it runs in the cloud. (How scheduled tasks work)
Your first brief is a draft. Spend 5 minutes each morning for the first 2 weeks on this.
01
Add what’s missing
Whatever you wish had been in the brief, add to the prompt as a new section, a new source or a new VIP.
02
Cut the noise
Anything you keep skimming past goes on the skip list. Be ruthless. The brief gets better fast when you cut.
03
Update your VIPs
Add whoever you wish it had flagged. Remove whoever doesn’t really matter anymore.
What done looks like
By week 3, you open your laptop, read the brief in 90 seconds, and know exactly what to do first. No more starting your day in your inbox.