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Set up a cron job that gives you a morning briefing every day — summarizing your calendar, unread emails, and pending tasks.

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Prerequisites

  • Gateway must be running
  • Connect Gmail, Google Calendar, and optionally Linear or Notion toolkits

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Steps

1

Open Control UI

Click “Open your OpenClaw” from the Dashboard.
2

Go to Cron Jobs

Navigate to the Cron Jobs tab in the Control section.
3

Create New Job

  • Name: Morning Briefing
  • Schedule: At 8:00 AM (your timezone)
  • Execution: Isolated
  • Prompt: “Give me a morning briefing: summarize my Google Calendar events for today, check for urgent unread Gmail messages, and list any in-progress Linear issues assigned to me.”
  • Delivery: Announce (posts to chat)
4

Enable

Toggle the job to enabled. It will run at 8 AM every day.

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Example Output

Your AI might respond with something like:
Morning Briefing — March 4, 2026 Calendar (3 events):
  • 9:00 AM — Storefront M2: iOS B2B Polish
  • 12:00 PM — Bridge Intro Meeting (Google Meet)
  • 2:00 PM — Storefront M2: Device Pairing Flow
Email (2 urgent):
  • Invoice from AWS — payment reminder
  • Team standup notes from yesterday
Linear (1 in-progress):
  • Fix Solana transactions not showing (Urgent)
You can adjust the prompt anytime. Try adding “and suggest 3 priorities for the day” for AI-powered task prioritization.