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How I use Claude to sort my inbox every hour (and draft the replies)

I run more than one business, for me and for clients, and email got so overwhelming that I stopped reading it. So I built an inbox assistant in Claude that sorts my email every hour, finds the people waiting on me, drafts the reply and puts a task in ClickUp. Here's the skill to download, and how to install it, connect it and put it on a routine.

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The Routine That Turns Every Client Call Into Tasks

I have so many meetings and so many clients that I'd forget what we discussed. So I built a routine that reads the notes from every call, files them in the client's folder and puts the actions into ClickUp. Here's how it works, the skill to download, and the prompts to set it up.

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The First AI Employee I'd Build as a Non-Techie Founder: An AI COO

If you're curious about AI employees but overwhelmed by all the skills and pieces you'd need, build one employee first: a COO. I built mine on top of ClickUp, and now I hand it a task and it decides which skills and which employees to use. Here's how to set it up, step by step, with the skill file template and the prompts.

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The Morning Brief: The Routine That Tells Me What Today Is

I haven't manually checked my calendar first thing in the morning for months. A routine reads my calendar, my tasks, my leads and my goals before I'm at my desk, and tells me what today is and what my focus should be. Here's what's in it, the prompts that build it, and how to make it look like your brand on your phone and your laptop.

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Claude Routine or AI Employee? How to Tell Which One You Need

A lot of people set up a routine in Claude and think they've got an AI employee. A routine is a reminder that wakes AI up at a set time. An AI employee picks up the work you give it, does it and hands it back for review. Here's the difference, the five questions that tell you which one a job needs, and the two prompts that set each one up.

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