Start every day with a 5-minute briefing of what actually matters
Your calendar's real priorities and the emails that arrived overnight, ready for you before your first coffee refill
- Runs while your laptop is closed
- Reports in Littlebird and by email
- Free plan includes 5 routines
You have three priorities today, and two overnight emails need you this morning.
- Priorities: the Birdseed Brands pitch at 10:00 AM, Casey Reed's design review at 1:00 PM and the Q4 budget due at 5:00 PM.
- Urgent: Dana Whitfield wants the final deck by 9:00 AM, and Avery needs your sign-off on the vendor security review before noon.
- Can wait: 31 other emails arrived overnight, and none of them is time-sensitive.
The problem
Most mornings start the same way: you open the inbox to check one thing and surface 40 minutes later behind on your own day. The calendar says one thing, the inbox screams another, and the actual priorities live in your head until a meeting steals them.
For founders and executives, that first hour sets the trajectory. Spend it reacting and the whole day runs on someone else's agenda.
What it does
This routine runs every morning at 7am. It reads today's calendar, picks out the three commitments that actually matter, and checks what landed in your inbox overnight that genuinely needs you.
You get one short briefing: today's top three priorities and the urgent emails. Everything else can wait, and now you know it can.
Try the prompt
Copy it into a new Littlebird routine, then set the days and times that fit your schedule
- Open Littlebird and go to Routines. Open the menu next to New Routine and choose Set up manually.
- Paste the prompt into Instructions, then set the days and time under Run.
- Littlebird runs it on schedule from then on. You can pause or edit it anytime. Auto-pause is on by default and pauses it if reports go unread.
You can also choose Create with Littlebird and describe the routine in chat.
Every morning at 7am give me a briefing: today's calendar top 3 priorities and any urgent emails that came in overnight
Why make it a routine?
A chat can write you a morning briefing if you paste in today's calendar and forward the overnight mail. That is the 40 minutes the briefing was supposed to save.
This routine reads Google Calendar and Gmail on its own at 7am, plus what was on your screen yesterday, and picks the three commitments that matter and the emails that need you.
One short briefing, before the inbox sets the agenda for you.
Frequently asked questions
Does it read my whole inbox?
It looks at what arrived overnight and surfaces what needs you today. Everything else stays in the pile, untouched and unread by anyone but you.
What does a morning briefing cost?
Routines run on every plan, including the free Basic tier. Plus, at $17 per month billed annually or $20 monthly with a 14-day trial, adds more capacity for people who stack several routines.
Can I change what counts as a priority?
Yes. Edit the prompt in plain English, for example 'include my 1:1s' or 'ignore newsletter senders', and the next briefing follows your definition.
Is my calendar and email data private?
Littlebird is independently audited for SOC 2 Type II and is GDPR and CCPA aligned, and your data is never sold or used to train models.
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Littlebird is free to start, and your routines also work on the web, iPhone and Android
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