Every weekday at 10am, a clean brief lands in Slack — client by client, most urgent first. Nobody sent it. Nobody wrote it. It just happened.
Think of it like a sharp colleague who reads all your project emails before you arrive, figures out what needs your attention, and leaves a note on your desk. Except this one never sleeps and never gets the priority wrong.
Your Gmail inbox is the mailroom. At 10am, a sorting office worker clocks in, picks up everything from the NB Projects pile, hands it to a sharp senior colleague who reads it all and writes a clean brief — then pins it to the Slack noticeboard. The worker runs on a timer. Nobody switches him on.
Seven pieces. Each one has one job. Here's the plain English version — and what you'd compare it to in the real world.
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Emails grouped by client, most recent first. Each one flagged urgent, heads up, or FYI. A watch-out at the bottom if anything looks like it's escalating. No walls of text. No forwarded threads.
You could forward emails manually. You could check Gmail yourself every morning. But this approach solves three real problems that manual methods can't.
The Morning Brief means something different depending on your role. Here's the one-line version for each.