Morning Drafts: a scheduled task that reads what arrived overnight and writes a reply to everything that needs one, in your voice, saved as a draft. It never presses send. That's the whole design.
The full prompt, with the rules that stop it sending anything
The scheduled task settings, the two connectors you need, and the ones I'd avoid
The fix list for when it's too nice, too long, or drafts the wrong things
Twenty minutes to set up in Claude Cowork. About ten minutes a morning to read, tweak and send.
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What's waiting at 7am
In your drafts folder, plus one short summary:
A draft reply to every email that needs one from you, short, in your voice
A "needs you" list of anything that needs a decision you haven't made yet. It won't guess at those.
Flags on emails linked to a meeting you have today, so the reply and the meeting don't contradict each other
A five-line summary, so you know what's waiting before you open a single message
What it won't do: send anything, delete anything, or answer newsletters, receipts and people you've never emailed before.
Set it up in six steps
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Schedule it. Scheduled tasks, new task, weekdays at 6.30am, paste the prompt, save.
The prompts
01 is the drafting task. 02 to 04 make it sound more like you and catch what slips.
01 · THE DRAFTS
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 · AFTER A WEEK
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 · VIPs
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 · FRIDAYS
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.
It errs on the side of charm. Add "direct and warm, no more than one line of pleasantries" to prompt 01, or run prompt 02 after a week.
It drafted replies to things I'd have ignored
Tell it what to ignore: "no replies to cold pitches, recruiters or anyone asking to pick my brain". It'll leave them alone.
What if it sends something?
The prompt tells it never to send, and it's only ever asked to save drafts. Read your first week of drafts closely, the way you would with any new assistant.
Which connectors would you avoid?
Anything this job doesn't need. Email and calendar do all of it. Every extra connector is another route your inbox can travel, so add them for a reason, not because they're there.
It didn't run this morning
Open Scheduled tasks and check the task's history. The usual reason is the laptop was asleep or the Claude app was closed. Leave the app open overnight, or move the time.
What next
Prompts are the first layer. The system is the point.
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