Free template

Your phone texts you your schedule every morning. Automatically.

Set this up once in 20 minutes using free tools. No coding, no maintenance — just a clean AI briefing of your day waiting for you every morning.

Google Calendar

Make (free)

Claude AI

SMS / text

What you'll receive every morning

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Good morning! You have 4 meetings today. First up: standup at 9am. You have a solid 2-hour block from 11–1pm — perfect for deep work. Your busiest stretch is 2–4pm, so prep for that now. You're set up for a strong day. Make it count.

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The guide

5 steps. 20 minutes. Done forever.

Setup

Create your free Make account

Make (formerly Integromat) is the automation platform that connects all the tools together. The free plan is more than enough for this.

Go to my Make affiliate link and sign up for a free account
Verify your email and log in to your dashboard
Click "Create a new scenario" from the home screen

Free plan note: Make's free tier gives you 1,000 operations/month. This automation uses about 30/month — you'll never come close to the limit.

Connect

Link your Google Calendar

Add the first module in your Make scenario to pull today's events from your calendar.

In your scenario, click "+" and search for "Google Calendar"
Select "Search Events"
Click "Add" to connect your Google account and grant calendar access
Set the calendar to your main personal or work calendar
Set date range: start = today, end = today + 1 day

Date formula tip: Use Make's built-in variables — set start to {{now}} and end to {{addDays(now; 1)}}

AI layer

Add Claude to write your briefing

This is the magic step. Claude reads your raw calendar data and turns it into a clean, friendly morning summary — in your tone, every time.

Add a new module — search for "Claude AI" or "HTTP"
Connect to the Claude API (free tier available at claude.ai)
In the prompt field, paste the template below
Map the calendar events output from Step 2 into the {{events}} variable

Prompt template — copy and paste this:

Here are my calendar events for today: {{events}}.

Write me a short, friendly morning briefing in plain text.
Include:
- Total number of meetings
- The first event and what time it starts
- Any gaps I can use for focused work
- One motivating sentence to start the day

Keep it under 160 words. No bullet points. Write it like
a helpful friend texting me, not a robot.

Deliver

Send it to your phone via SMS

Connect a messaging module to deliver the AI summary straight to your phone as a text.

Add a new module — search for "Twilio" (easiest for SMS)
Sign up for a free Twilio account — the free trial includes a phone number
Set "To" as your personal mobile number
Set "Message" to the Claude output from Step 3

No Twilio? Use a Gmail module instead — email yourself at your carrier's SMS gateway address. Examples: yournumber@txt.att.net (AT&T), yournumber@vtext.com (Verizon), yournumber@tmomail.net (T-Mobile)

What lands on your phone

Good morning! You have 4 meetings today. First up: standup at 9am. You have a solid 2-hour block from 11–1pm — perfect for deep work. You're set up for a strong day. Make it count.

Schedule

Set it to run every morning automatically

The final step — set a schedule so the whole thing runs itself, every morning, without you touching anything.

Click the clock icon at the very start of your Make scenario
Set scheduling to "Every day"
Set the time to 30–60 min before your workday (e.g. 7:30am)
Click "Run once" to test — check your phone within a minute
Once it works, click "Activate scenario"

That's it. You never have to touch this again. Every morning at your chosen time, your phone gets a personalized AI briefing of your day — automatically.

Free, fast, and it just works.

No subscriptions. No maintenance. Set it up once and forget about it.

~20

minutes to set up

ongoing cost

lines of code