☀️ productivity recipe
Morning Briefing AI Routine for Mac
Start your day with a personalized summary of your schedule, important emails, and news.
Who it's for
Busy professionals who want to walk into the day already knowing what matters, without opening five apps first.
What lands in your morning
A single written brief waiting for you at 8 AM: today's schedule, the emails that need a reply, and the news worth knowing, in one scroll.
The exact prompt
Paste this into a new routine.
Write me a morning briefing for today. Start with a one-sentence overview of my day, then list my meetings with times, then the three most important things in my inbox that need a reply, then a short roundup of news in AI and startups. Keep it skimmable with short bullets and a friendly tone.
Schedule
Every day at 8:00 AM
cron: 0 8 * * *
Intelligence
Fast tier
Set per routine to control spend.
Required connectors
None needed, runs out of the box.
Set it up
Running in under a minute.
Step 01
Install Routines
Download the notarized DMG, drag Routines to Applications, and sign in with Google once.
Step 02
Pick the Morning Briefing recipe
Open the recipe library and choose Morning Briefing, or paste the example prompt into a new routine.
Step 03
Set the schedule
Keep the default 8:00 AM daily, or change it in plain English like "every weekday at 7am".
Step 04
Let it run
Routines writes the brief to your local output history each morning, even if your Mac was asleep at 8 AM.
Sample output
What a run looks like.
Your morning, June 12
Done- Three meetings today, first deep-work block until 11:00 AM.
- 2 emails need a reply: Ana (term sheet), Stripe (payout).
- AI news: two model releases worth a 2-minute read.
Saved to your local output history · never uploaded
FAQ
Questions about this recipe.
Does the Morning Briefing need any accounts connected?
No connectors are required to start. It runs out of the box, and you can connect Gmail or Calendar later to fold your inbox and schedule into the brief.
What if my Mac is asleep at 8 AM?
Routines catches up on wake. When your Mac comes back, it runs the missed briefing retroactively and flags that it ran late, so you never miss it.
Where is the briefing stored?
Every run is saved to a local output record on your Mac, rendered as a card in your history. Nothing is uploaded to a vendor cloud.
Can I change what the briefing covers?
Yes. Edit the prompt anytime to add or drop sections, change the tone, or point it at different topics. Changes apply on the next run.
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Run Morning Briefing on your Mac.
Install Routines, paste the prompt, set the schedule. It runs locally and the output stays on your machine.
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