Start every day with a brief and a time-blocked calendar

The day's meetings, the newsletters worth reading and focus time blocked around both, before the day starts.

In the post: time blocking the day took five minutes.

Connect the apps here, then add the workflow. Kavela runs the workflow when you press Run until you clear it to run on its own.

The workflow

Exactly what will run, and the app each step works in. You can change any step before you add the workflow.

Every weekday at 6am

  1. Google Calendar

    Read today's calendar and the newsletters from overnight.

    In Google Calendar

  2. Write a short brief: the day's meetings and the points worth knowing.

    By your agents, in Kavela

  3. Google Calendar

    Block focus time around the meetings.

    In Google Calendar

  4. Before each 1:1, add notes from the last conversation.

    By your agents, in Kavela

Customize

What should the workflow know about you?

How should each step be done?

1Read today's calendar and the newsletters from overnight.Google Calendar
2Write a short brief: the day's meetings and the points worth knowing.
3Block focus time around the meetings.Google Calendar
4Before each 1:1, add notes from the last conversation.

Which other apps should the workflow use, and how?

Where should results go, and how should each message read?

Take the workflow further

Each app below adds a step. Turn one on to see the step in the workflow above; the app joins the setup.

  • Typefully Freemium

    Turns an idea from the brief into a post draft

    Sign in once

  • Slack Free

    Sends you the brief as a message

    Sign in once

What to expect

A second agent checks every run against the workflow's checklist before the result reaches you.

Small slips are fixed first
A result close to passing is corrected before the check.
A miss goes back
A result missing a check goes back with the exact gap and is redone.
Three tries, then you
If the result still falls short after three tries, you get the work and what is missing.

Put the workflow to work.

Connect the apps here, then add the workflow. Kavela runs the workflow when you press Run until you clear it to run on its own.