Saturday morning to Sunday evening. The exact setup order, the exact /schedule prompts, the exact time blocks. By Monday at 7am, your week is already running underneath you.
This isn't a "10 things you could do." It's a 48-hour execution plan. Two hours and 45 minutes of setup spread across Saturday and Sunday. Each automation has the exact /schedule prompt to copy, the time it takes to set up, and what you'll see hit your inbox Monday morning.
What You Need Before You Start
Claude Pro or Max plan. Claude desktop app installed. Connectors set up for Gmail, Calendar, Drive, and Slack (Customize → Connectors). If you don't have these on yet, do that first — takes 5 minutes total.
How /schedule Works
Type /schedule in any Claude chat. Pick frequency (daily / weekly / weekdays / monthly). Paste the prompt. Pick the time. That's it — it runs automatically. Note: scheduled tasks fire only when your computer is awake and the desktop app is open.
Your Weekend Setup Schedule
What you'll see Monday morning: Your inbox is already triaged. Drafts are saved for routine replies. Urgent emails are flagged. The summary is in your Drive at 7am, before you even open your phone.
What you'll see Monday evening: A daily entry of what got done, what's in progress, what's next tomorrow. By month-end, you've built career receipts your performance review can't ignore.
What you'll see Monday at 8am: A digest of every long Slack thread from the last 24 hours — what was decided, what's open, what action items are headed at you. 30 seconds of reading replaces 20 minutes of scrolling.
What you'll see Monday morning: A 1-page brief per meeting on tomorrow's calendar — attendees researched, past context pulled, questions drafted, objections predicted. You walk in already prepared.
What you'll see Monday morning: 30 minutes before any client meeting on your calendar, a deep-research brief lands in your Drive — their company, their recent moves, their priorities, the one smart question to ask.
What you'll see next Friday at 5pm: /Downloads sorted by file type. Old installers and screenshots gone. Receipts filed. The desktop you walk into Monday is clean.
What you'll see on the 1st: Last month's receipts processed, categorized, summarized. The spreadsheet is updated. The "April panic" never happens because the work is already done.
What you'll see at 7:30am Monday: The week framed. The 3 things that matter most this week. Open threads you're holding. Decisions waiting. Deep work blocks suggested. Coffee, then go.
What you'll see Sunday at 4pm: Your week's biggest piece of content turned into 8 social posts — tweets, LinkedIn, IG, newsletter teaser. Schedule them and you've got the week's content done in 20 minutes.
What you'll see Sunday at 5pm: A draft of next week's newsletter, pulled from your work log + content + open insights of the week. You polish, not start. 20 minutes of editing replaces 2 hours of writing.
If 2.5 hours of setup is too much for one weekend, do it across 2-3 weekends. Pick the daily ones first — Inbox Triage, Work Log, Slack Digest. Run them for a week. Then add the rest.
By the time all 10 are running, you'll forget what your week looked like before. That's the whole point.
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