ChatGPT reads your calendar, inbox, Slack and Drive and hands you one brief before you sit down. Connect 4 apps, paste 2 prompts, and it runs every weekday. One line it never crosses: it reads, you decide.
The first 40 minutes of your day go to finding out what your day is. Calendar, inbox, Slack, the folder someone shared last night. By the time you know what matters, the best hour is gone.
ChatGPT Work can read those 4 places and hand you one brief before you sit down. What is on today, who needs a reply, what changed since yesterday, what to decide. Connect the apps once, paste 2 prompts, and it runs every weekday.
One line it never crosses: it reads and reports, you decide. That sentence stays in every version of the prompt, and this page explains why.
The first one builds the brief. Run it by hand the first few mornings. The second one schedules it. Both keep the same last line.
Run this the first morning and correct what comes back.
Build my daily work brief using @Google Calendar, @Gmail, @Slack and @Google Drive. Review today's meetings, unread messages, follow-ups and project notes. Summarize my top priorities, meeting prep, replies needed, decisions to make, important FYIs, and anything where you are missing context. Do not send messages, edit files, or create tasks.
Once the brief looks right, this one makes it run every weekday.
Prepare my daily work brief every weekday at [the time you sit down, e.g. 7:30am].
Check the same sources and only highlight new or changed priorities, meetings, replies, decisions and blockers since yesterday.
Do not send messages, edit files, or create tasks.
That sentence is the last line of both prompts and it stays in every version you ever write. Without it, a brief that "helps" can reply to a client for you, move a file, or add a task you did not ask for, at 7am, before you have seen any of it.
With it, the brief is a report. Everything it suggests, you do, or you do not. The time saved is the reading. The judgment is still yours, and that is the part clients are paying for.
The prompt above was written for someone with a team and a manager. This one is for someone with clients and an invoice pile. Same rules, different eyes.
Build my daily work brief using @Google Calendar, @Gmail, @Slack and @Google Drive.
Review today's meetings, unread messages, follow-ups and project notes.
Flag first, at the top: any message from a possible new client, anything mentioning an invoice, a payment or a deposit, and anything from [your 3 most important clients, by name].
Then: today's meetings with 2 lines of prep each, replies I owe with who and how long they have waited, decisions I have been putting off, and anything where you are missing context.
Under 250 words. Plain English. Skip newsletters and notifications.
Do not send messages, edit files, or create tasks.
And the correction line for day 2, so you do not have to think of it at 7am:
About this morning's brief: [what was useful] was useful. [What it missed] was missing. [What was noise] was noise, drop it. Keep everything else the same tomorrow. Do not send messages, edit files, or create tasks.