Daily Briefing

What it does

Every morning at 7am (or on demand), it pulls:

• Multiple Google calendars (2 work and 2 personal)
• Unread email from the past 12 hours, ranked by sender salience
• Slack DMs and threads I’m tagged in
• Today’s task list (Tick Tick)
• Linear issue updates
• Apple health stats - yesterday’s summary, sleep (separate skill)
• Daily stoic quote (local Kaggle dataset)
• Time blocks suggestions & prompt to run a time blocks assistant skill

Then it produces a single one-screen briefing: meetings with prep status, decisions waiting on me, three things I should actually do today, and what I can punt.

Why it exists

This type of feature might seem trivial to a lot of people, but for people with ADHD brains, sitting down at your desk in the morning is the mother of all context switches and can be really difficult and sent you straight into an overwhelm spiral. Especially with split attention across multiple work streams. A little help with the friction and chaos can make it manageable and quick. The skill is a context-loader: by the time I read it, my next move is already obvious.

What it shows

• AI as scaffolding for executive function, not as a replacement for thinking
• Composing existing tools (calendar, email, Slack, TickTick MCPs) into one workflow
• Designing for the actual moment of use: first coffee, low cognitive bandwidth
• Claude agents, skills, routines, MCP connectors (local and pre-built)

Hacks

You can’t use the standard Google connector to connect to more than one workspace account at a time. Claude will insist you can - you can’t. The workaround in use for now is standard connector for one account, local MCP server for one account and a swift script that works on Apple mail and Calendar for the other two. Not great. It means routines have to run locally. But it’s stable and working for now.

Stack

Claude Code skill · Google Calendar API · Gmail API · Slack API · TickTick API