How to get a morning brief of your day with AI
Start each day with one short message that pulls together today's meetings, emails that need a reply and the tasks that matter most, instead of checking five apps.
- ⏱ Time1 hour to set up
- 💰 CostFree to start
- 🎯 DifficultyMedium
- 👤 ForPersonal
Steps
Write down what "urgent" means for you, for example "someone is waiting for my reply within 24 hours". Without this rule, newsletters end up in your brief.
Tool: ChatGPT
Try this prompt:Help me write 5 simple rules for what counts as urgent in my email and tasks, and what can wait. Ask me 3 questions about my week first.
Connect a no-code agent to your email, calendar and task list with read-only access, and have it run every weekday at 7:00.
Tool: Zapier Agents
Prefer an assistant that already works with Gmail and Google Calendar? Set it up to send one brief each morning and to write drafts only, never send.
Tool: Lindy
Use this instruction for the brief itself, then shorten it after a week if it's too chatty.
Tool: Claude
Try this prompt:Every morning, give me: today's meetings and what I need to prepare, emails that need a reply from me today, the 3 tasks that matter most, and anything overdue. Link each item to its source. Keep it under 150 words.
Keep your tasks in one place so the brief has something clean to read.
Tool: Todoist
Tools used
Zapier Agents
Easiest start for non-coders: agents that act across 7,000+ apps you already use.
Free tier, paid plans
Lindy
No-code AI assistants that handle email, meetings, scheduling and follow-ups across your apps. Good first agent for non-coders.
Free tier, paid plans
Claude
Anthropic's assistant for writing, analysis and code, now with decks, spreadsheets and scheduled tasks. A top pick for long documents and careful reasoning.
Pricing not verified
Todoist
Popular to-do list and task manager, now with AI tools and agents to break down and plan tasks.
Free plan, paid plans
n8n
Best for no/low-code agent builders: visual workflows with AI agent nodes and 400+ integrations, self-hostable.
Free self-host, cloud plans
Learn how
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Questions
Is it safe to let an AI read my inbox?
Start with read-only access and drafts only. Don't let the agent send email, move meetings or pay anything without you approving it first.
Why is my brief full of unimportant things?
The agent doesn't know your priorities yet. Give it a written rule for what is urgent, and tell it which senders always matter.
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