# Your email replies, drafted before you're up

From the tuitiv free library: tuitiv.ai/free/drafts

## Set-up steps

1. **Have Claude Cowork set up with a project.** You need the Claude desktop app, a project, and that project pointed at one folder on your computer. If that isn't done yet, the Starter Pack walks you through it: tuitiv.ai/free/setup.
2. **Switch off two privacy settings first.** Settings, then Privacy: "Help improve our AI models" off, "Location metadata" off. Grey, not blue. You're about to connect your inbox, so do this before, not after.
3. **Connect two things: your email and your calendar.** Settings, then Connectors. Gmail and Google Calendar, or Outlook and its calendar. That's all this needs. I'd avoid adding anything else for it, especially apps you only half trust: every connector is another place your inbox can flow to.
4. **Check your voice file is current.** If Claude doesn't know how you write, the drafts sound like a very polite bank. Your voice file needs your sign-offs, your greetings, the phrases you overuse and the words you'd never use.
5. **Run the prompt once by hand.** Paste prompt 01 into a new task, then read every draft in your email's drafts folder. Adjust the prompt until you'd send most of them with small changes.
6. **Schedule it.** Scheduled tasks, new task, weekdays at 6.30am, paste the prompt, save.

## The prompts

### 01. Draft my replies

Paste into a scheduled task for weekdays at 6.30am.

```
Read every email that arrived in the last 24 hours. Skip newsletters, receipts, notifications and anything automated.

For each email that needs a reply from me, write the reply in my voice, short, and save it as a draft in my email.

Rules:
→ Never send anything. Never delete anything.
→ Don't draft replies to people I've never emailed before. List them under "New people" instead.
→ If an email needs a decision I haven't made yet, don't draft it. List it under "Needs you" with one line on what's being asked.
→ Check today's calendar and flag any email that relates to a meeting I have today.

Finish with a five-line summary: how many drafts, what needs me, and anything urgent.
```

### 02. Make the drafts sound more like you

Run after a week, with a few drafts you changed before sending.

```
Here are five drafts you wrote and the versions I actually sent: [paste the pairs].

Tell me what I changed each time: length, greetings, tone, phrases I added or cut.

Then update the drafting prompt with those rules so next week's drafts need fewer changes. Show me the new prompt.
```

### 03. Handle the important people differently

For clients, your board, your business partner.

```
Add this to my morning drafts: for anyone on this list [names or email addresses], don't draft a reply.

Put them at the top of the summary instead, with a one-line description of what they need and how urgent it is. I'll write those myself.
```

### 04. The loose-ends sweep

Once a week, for the replies that never went.

```
Every Friday at 4pm, look at my email drafts folder and my sent mail for the week.

List any drafts older than two days that I never sent, and any email where someone is waiting on me (they asked something and I haven't answered). One line each, oldest first.

Don't draft anything new.
```

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