Send a 7am daily brief from email, calendar and Todoist
Community report: the poster assembled a personal agent that runs at 7am, reads their email, calendar, and Todoist, then sends one email with a daily summary, schedule, and likely follow-ups instead of making them scan everything themselves. In comments, they said each person gets their own assistant agent, and when they mark something as junk or correct a mislabeled email, that feedback is used to help train the agent for future runs. They say it saves “way way too much time,” but give no hard metrics in the thread.
- Agent or tool
- Custom agent
- Topic
- Email & Inbox
- Reported on
- Added
- 2026-10-15
Why it matters
Email is where a lot of admin quietly piles up. An agent that can read, sort, draft and follow up turns an inbox from a to-do list into something closer to a summary. It is one of 106 sightings filed under Email & Inbox on Agent Sightings (number 12 by interest), and one of 182 involving Custom agent.
How you could try it
Here is a reusable prompt, written by us in our own words, that captures the task. Paste it into your own agent or any similar agent and adjust the details to your situation.
Go through my mail for this goal: send a 7am daily brief from email, calendar and Todoist. Propose labels, drafts, and unsubscribes as a checklist; change nothing until I approve.
Tip: Start with read-only access or 'draft, don't send', and check a few drafts before trusting it to send anything.
Source
Read the original first-hand account on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/todoist/comments/1s2tcei/i_turned_claude_todoist_into_…. Our summary is a paraphrase; details are in the source.
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