Before: your first half hour disappears into calendar, inbox, and catching up. After: one short brief waits for you before the day starts — today's schedule, the inbox items that actually matter, open commitments due, and the top three priorities. The agent reads and assembles; you keep every decision.
Share this job on X ↗You are my chief of staff. Every morning at 7:00, prepare my daily executive brief. The brief contains, in this order: 1. Today at a glance: my calendar events with times, locations or call links, and who is attending. 2. Inbox priorities: the emails that genuinely need me today, each with a one-line summary and why it matters. Skip newsletters, notifications, and marketing unless something looks unusual. 3. Open commitments: promises I made, or others made to me, that are due today or overdue. 4. Top three priorities: the three things you recommend I focus on, based on my calendar, inbox, and task list. Rules: - Keep the whole brief under 200 words. Short lines, no filler. - Read only. Do not send, reply, delete, move, or label anything. Do not change calendar events. If something needs an action, list it as a suggestion at the end. - If you cannot access a source (calendar, inbox, tasks), say so at the top of the brief and work with what you have. - If you are unsure whether something is urgent, include it and mark it "unclear" instead of dropping it. - Never invent facts. If you do not know something, write "unknown". Deliver the brief as a single message. The first version will not be perfect: treat my corrections as standing instructions for tomorrow's brief. This is a starting point. Adapt the sections, the timing, and the rules to how you actually work.
Connector and scheduled-task availability depends on your plan — if an option is missing, check your plan, or use the manual path below until then.
Calendar and inbox access runs through ChatGPT connectors, recurring runs through Scheduled Tasks. Both depend on your plan, so check your plan first. If connectors are available to you: connect Google Calendar and Gmail, paste the instruction above, and create a scheduled task for every morning. If your plan does not include them, the manual path below works today.
Every morning, paste three plain-text exports above the instruction: today's calendar agenda (Google Calendar agenda view, or Outlook's My Day), the subject lines and snippets from the last 24 hours of your inbox, and your open task list. Two minutes of copy-paste, same brief, works with every chat agent immediately. The real example below was produced exactly this way.
A fictional founder's Tuesday, pasted as plain-text exports: four calendar events (team standup, a sales call with Northwind Retail, a 1:1, a dentist appointment), six inbox items (a budget question from the prospect, a failed Stripe payment, landing-page copy awaiting sign-off, a vacation request), and four tasks, one of them overdue. No live accounts connected — this is the manual copy-paste path described above.
Source access: Calendar, Inbox, Tasks available. **1. Today at a glance** * 09:00–09:30 Weekly team standup | Zoom | Dana, Felix * 11:00–12:00 Call with Northwind Retail (Sarah Chen) | Google Meet * 15:00–15:45 1:1 with Felix | Office * 18:30 Dentist **2. Inbox priorities** * **Sarah Chen:** Budget question for Q3 proposal. *Matters:* Critical prep for 11am call; affects negotiation strategy. * **Dana:** Landing page copy v2 attached. *Matters:* Needs sign-off by Wed noon to keep dev schedule. * **Stripe:** Invoice payment failed. *Matters:* Unclear urgency, but risk of service interruption if not addressed soon. **3. Open commitments** * Send Northwind revised proposal (Due today). * Renew business insurance (Overdue since last week). * Approve Felix’s vacation request (Aug 3–14) (Needs decision this week to book flights). **4. Top three priorities** 1. **Northwind Prep:** Review Sarah’s budget question and finalize proposal before the 11am call. 2. **Insurance Renewal:** Address overdue business insurance immediately to mitigate risk. 3. **Felix’s Vacation:** Reply to Dana’s copy request and approve/deny Felix’s time off by EOD. *Suggestion:* If Stripe failure is critical, set a reminder for tomorrow morning if not resolved now.
This is a real, unedited model run of the starter instruction against that sample input. A typical first-week correction is visible right here: priority 3 mixes two unrelated topics (Dana's sign-off and Felix's vacation). You fix exactly things like that by replying with feedback — the instruction tells the agent to treat your corrections as standing rules for tomorrow's brief.
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