Wake up to a morning brief Claude wrote overnight
Set up a scheduled task so Claude scans your calendar, inbox and the news while you sleep — and has a prioritised brief waiting for you at 7am.
What this looks like
One step on screen at a time. Read it, do it, tap Next.
Wake up to a morning brief Claude wrote overnight
Step 1 of 8
Understand what a scheduled task is
A scheduled task is a saved prompt Claude runs on a timetable — daily at 7am, every Monday at 8, whatever you choose. Each run is a full Claude session: it can search the web, read your conn
Checkpoint
You can explain it: a scheduled task is a prompt that runs itself on a schedule.
Before you begin
Tick these off as you sort them. Stopping halfway to create an account is how a fifteen-minute build becomes an hour.
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Ticks are saved on this device, so you can come back to them.
- Account
Scheduled tasks run on Pro, Max, Team or Enterprise. The free tier can't run anything while you're away.
- Credential
The brief gets genuinely useful when it can see your calendar and inbox. Have the login handy — you'll connect them as connectors in step 2.
- Know-how
What do you actually need at 7am? Meetings today, urgent emails, numbers that moved, industry news? Your answer becomes the brief's template.
The basics — ticked once, remembered everywhere
- Account
Either the hosted version or a self-hosted install. Everything here works the same on both — the only visible difference is the shape of your webhook URLs.
Create a workspace - Know-how
Adding a node, connecting two of them, and pressing Execute. If any of that is new, the free primer covers it in about ten minutes.
- Credential
You will paste at least one secret during setup. A password manager beats a notes app, and it stops you pasting a live key into a chat window by accident.
The shape of the setup
The Claude features you will touch, left to right, in the order you use them.
What you will build
Jump straight to any step, or print the list and tick it off beside your Claude tab.
If something goes wrong
Everything ready?
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