Connect your Google Calendar and Gmail once. Then one prompt tells you everything you've committed to this week and what's going to collide. It only reads. Nothing moves unless you tell it to.
Help me plan my week. Use my Google Calendar and my Gmail. This is read-only. Don't create, move, accept, decline or delete any calendar event, and don't send, archive, label or delete any email, unless I ask you to in this chat. 1. Calendar: list every event from Monday to Sunday this week, grouped by day, with the time and who's involved. 2. Inbox: check my email from the last 7 days. Pull out anything I've promised to do, anything someone has asked me to do, anything waiting on my reply, and any date or deadline that isn't on my calendar yet. 3. Collisions: flag double bookings, meetings back to back with no break, deadlines that land on a packed day, and any day that looks overloaded. 4. Sort everything into two groups: Must look at immediately Can wait a day Give one line for each item on why it's in that group. Finish with the decisions I need to make to fix this week, with the quickest ones first.
Tell it what you want in plain words, like Move my Thursday 2pm to Friday at the same time. The Google Calendar connector can create and update events, so Cowork can make the change for you. Keep Cowork's permission mode on Manual and it asks before it acts.
Yes, Claude Cowork can plan your week once you connect Google Calendar and Gmail. One prompt lists every event this week, pulls promises and deadlines out of the last 7 days of email, flags double bookings and overloaded days, and sorts it all into what needs you now and what can wait a day. Cowork needs a paid Claude plan.
Go to Customize, then Connectors, click the + next to Connectors, find Google Calendar and click Connect. Sign in with Google and allow access, then do the same for Gmail. On Team and Enterprise plans, an admin has to switch on the Google Workspace connectors first.
Yes, the Google Calendar connector can create, update and delete events. Tell Cowork what you want in plain words, like "Move my Thursday 2pm to Friday at the same time." Keep Cowork's permission mode on Manual and it asks before it acts.
Yes, with a scheduled task in Cowork. Click Scheduled in the left sidebar, then New task, paste your prompt and set the frequency to Weekly. Scheduled tasks run remotely, so they run even when your computer is asleep or the app is closed. They're included on every paid Claude plan.
No, Anthropic doesn't train its models on what Claude reads through the Gmail, Calendar and Drive connectors. There is one exception: on a personal plan with training switched on, anything you copy from those tools into a chat can be used.
The bonus turns the prompt into a scheduled task that's waiting for you every Monday, shows you how to teach it your own priorities, and gives you a Friday prompt to wrap up the week.
How I prioritize: Must look at immediately means anything from a client, anything due in the next 48 hours, and anything involving money or a signature. Can wait a day means internal updates, newsletters, FYI threads and anything with no deadline. If you're not sure which group something belongs in, put it in Must look at immediately and tell me why you weren't sure. [Add or change the rules so they fit how you work]
Help me wrap up my week. Use my Google Calendar and my Gmail. Read-only: don't change any event or send any email unless I ask you to in this chat. 1. List the meetings I had this week and any follow-up I promised in them or in email that I haven't sent yet. 2. List emails from this week still waiting on my reply, oldest first. 3. Look at next week's calendar and flag anything I need to prepare before Monday. 4. Sort the open items into Must look at immediately and Can wait a day, with one line each on why. Keep it short enough to read in two minutes.
Schedule the Friday prompt the same way: Weekly, Friday afternoon. Scheduled tasks are included on every paid Claude plan.
Prompts, step-by-step guides and checklists you can put to work today.