Claude Code · Anthropic
Triage email and add drive time to your calendar before you wake
A newsletter writer replaced a 45 minute morning routine with Claude Code automations that triage email overnight, add traffic based drive time events to his calendar, and draft a time blocked day.
What they did
An email triage job runs at 5:30 AM and a calendar prep job at 5:45 AM that adds drive time events using live traffic data through a Google Cloud API key. A single morning command starts six agents in parallel, and a time blocking workflow builds the day's schedule, grouping errands by location.
How it went
The poster says his task list is current by 6:15 AM and drive times are already on the calendar when he sits down, at a fraction of what he estimates a virtual assistant would cost.
Worth knowing
These are the author's own claims with no measured results in the free part, setup took him a weekend, and the detailed steps are behind a paywall. No failures are described.
Try it with Claude Code
Set up a scheduled job that runs at <time> each morning: triage my unread email in <your inbox> and turn action items into tasks in <your task manager>, skipping duplicates. Then check today's events in <your calendar> that have a location, estimate travel time from <your home area>, and add drive time blocks before each one. Finish with a suggested time blocked plan for the day.
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