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Your Daily Inbox Summary

3 min

What you'll be able to do

  • Get a skimmable briefing of your whole inbox in under two minutes
  • Start each day knowing your top three priorities

KEY TAKEAWAYS

  • One prompt turns a full inbox into a short briefing: what's urgent, what can wait, what to ignore, and a suggested to-do list.
  • Read it with your coffee, pick your top tasks, and dive into only what matters.

Know what matters before you open a single email

Some mornings you don't want to process every email, you just want to know what's going on. The Daily Inbox Summary prompt reads a batch of messages and hands you a short briefing: what's on fire and needs you today, what's waiting on a reply but can sit a day, what's safe to ignore, and a suggested to-do list pulled from it all. It even flags any dates or deadlines buried in the text.

Read it with your coffee, pick your three most important tasks, and dive into only what matters. It's the fastest way to feel on top of your inbox without actually living in it.

Put it into practice

Paste this morning's inbox into the Daily Inbox Summary prompt and let its briefing set your top three tasks for the day.

PROMPTS FOR THIS LESSON

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Operations↻ Daily

Daily Inbox Summary

Paste your morning inbox and get a skimmable briefing: what needs you today, what can wait, and a short to-do list, all in under two minutes.

Operations↻ Daily

Daily Inbox Summary

You are my chief of staff. I run a [BUSINESS TYPE] in [CITY] and I am the [ROLE]. Below is a batch of emails from my inbox. Give me a short morning briefing so I know exactly where to spend my time today. Produce: 1. TOP PRIORITIES: the 3-5 emails that genuinely need me today, each a one-line summary with the sender and what they want. 2. WAITING ON A REPLY: anything where someone expects a response but it can wait a day or two. 3. FYI / NO ACTION: a one-line roll-up of everything else (newsletters, receipts, notifications) so I can ignore it with confidence. 4. SUGGESTED TO-DO LIST: turn the top priorities into an ordered checklist of 3-5 concrete actions for today. 5. TIME-SENSITIVE: flag any deadlines, meetings, or dates mentioned anywhere in these emails. Keep it skimmable, I want to read this in under two minutes. Here are the emails: [PASTE YOUR EMAILS HERE]
After you run this: Skim the briefing, knock out the suggested to-do list, then hand your top priorities to the Inbox Triage prompt to draft the replies.

What's next

Last step: lock all of this into a simple routine that runs the same way every day, even if someone else helps.