Inbox, calendar & follow-ups

Morning brief from inbox and calendar

Every weekday before work, your dot reads today's calendar and overnight email and sends one short brief: meetings, prep, replies owed.

dots101 template Checked Sep 30, 2026 Not yet run on a live dot by us
Runs
On a schedule
Connect
Gmail, Google Calendar
Setup (estimate)
~5 min
Category
Inbox, calendar & follow-ups
Prompt
Every weekday at 7:30 AM Pacific for the next four weeks, prepare my morning brief. Read today's calendar and any email that arrived since 6 PM yesterday. In one message in ChatGPT, list: today's meetings with the one thing I should prepare for each, any overlaps or meetings without an agenda, and emails that need a reply from me today, each with a one-line summary. Skip newsletters and notifications. Don't reply to, archive or label anything. If there is nothing that needs me, say so in one line. Confirm the schedule.

Paste it into your dot's conversation in ChatGPT. Edit anything in [brackets] first.

How it works

  1. Connect your email and calendar through Plugins. Reading is enough for this job.
  2. Change the time and time zone in the prompt to yours, then paste it. Your dot should confirm the schedule back to you. You can review it later under Scheduled in your dot’s profile.
  3. The brief arrives in your ChatGPT conversation each weekday. Tell your dot what to add or drop (“skip internal standups”) and it adjusts.
  4. The prompt ends after four weeks on purpose. OpenAI recommends giving recurring work an end date, and it’s a natural point to decide whether to keep it.