How do I set up an AI morning briefing?

Ask Silk in plain words, for example "every weekday at 7, check my calendar and inbox and give me a briefing." Silk creates the schedule for you. 91% of Silk schedules are set up exactly like that, with no settings screen.

Which email and calendar apps does it work with?

Silk works on your own computer, so it can use what you already have open: Gmail and Google Calendar in your browser, Outlook, Apple Mail and Calendar, or Gmail and Google Calendar connected once in Silk's connected apps. It can even cover several accounts at once.

Will Silk send emails without asking me?

Only if you tell it to. The usual setup is for Silk to draft replies and leave them for you to approve. You decide in plain words what it may send on its own.

Does my computer need to be on?

Yes. Schedules run on your computer while Silk is running. Turn on Start at login and leave the computer awake, or pick a time when you know it will be on. A desktop or a Mac mini that stays on works well.

Can I get the briefing on my phone?

Yes. Pair Silk with Telegram and ask it to send the briefing there as well as saving it to your folder.

Can it do an evening recap too?

Yes. A popular pairing is a morning briefing and a nightly "what you got done today" note saved to your work folder. Just ask for both.

Use case · Morning briefing

An AI morning briefing that runs itself, every weekday

Set it up with one sentence. Every morning Silk reads your calendar and inbox on your own computer, drafts the replies that matter and has your day summarized before you sit down.

A morning briefing note made by Silk showing today's calendar, the three emails that need attention with drafted replies, and the top three priorities, next to the scheduled job card that made it.

You ask

“every weekday at 7, check my calendar and inbox and give me a briefing”

Silk does

01 Read today's calendar
02 Checked 41 unread emails
03 Picked out the 3 that need you
04 Drafted 2 replies for your review
05 Logged 1 new enquiry in the Leads sheet
06 Saved today's briefing to Work / Briefings

You get

Briefing-2026-11-03.md waiting in your Work folder at 7:00, with replies drafted and nothing sent without you

Most AI tools wait for you to open them. A briefing is the opposite: the work is done before you’ve had coffee.

It’s the most common way Silk users put it on a schedule. In 60 days, Silk users set up 215 recurring jobs that ran 2,436 times, and email tasks grew 3.2x in the last 30 days. 91% of those schedules were set up just by asking.

What you get

Today’s calendar, with anything that clashes or needs prep flagged.
Only the emails that need you, pulled out of everything that came in overnight.
Replies drafted and waiting for your OK, not sent behind your back.
New leads logged, for example website enquiries added to your Leads sheet.
Your top three for the day, based on deadlines, meetings and what’s overdue.
A dated note saved to your Work folder, and on your phone if you want.

How it works, step by step

Ask once. Say or type: “every weekday at 7, check my calendar and inbox and give me a briefing.” Add anything you care about, like “flag overdue invoices.”
Silk creates the schedule and shows it in Scheduled tasks. You can pause it or change the time any time, also just by asking.
At 7:00 it runs in the background on your computer, in the accounts you’re already logged in to.
It reads, sorts and drafts. Anything that needs a decision is drafted and left for you.
It saves the briefing and tells you it’s ready.

Silk on a phone over Telegram on the left, and Silk's Scheduled tasks window on the right listing a weekly sales summary, a morning inbox sweep, an SEO check and a social queue. — Schedules live on your computer. You can create them by text or voice from your phone too.

Versions people actually run

The front desk. “Every morning, sort my notifications and inbox, draft replies for anything from a client, and give me a checklist.”
The calendar merger. “At 2 PM every day, check all six of my Google accounts and copy tomorrow’s Zoom calls onto my main calendar.”
The evening recap. “Every night at 9, write a short ‘what I got done today’ note, dated, in my Work folder.”
The sales pulse. “Every Monday at 7, email me last week’s sales as a PDF.”

Tips

Say what matters"Anything from a client or about money goes to the top" teaches Silk your priorities.

Draft, don't sendStart with drafts. Once you trust it, let Silk send the routine ones.

Keep the computer awakeTurn on Start at login so the 7:00 run never gets missed.

Get it on your phonePair Telegram and the briefing follows you.

New to Silk? Read what Silk is, or see 10 ways people use Silk.

Questions

How do I set up an AI morning briefing?: Ask Silk in plain words, for example "every weekday at 7, check my calendar and inbox and give me a briefing." Silk creates the schedule for you. 91% of Silk schedules are set up exactly like that, with no settings screen.
Which email and calendar apps does it work with?: Silk works on your own computer, so it can use what you already have open: Gmail and Google Calendar in your browser, Outlook, Apple Mail and Calendar, or Gmail and Google Calendar connected once in Silk's connected apps. It can even cover several accounts at once.
Will Silk send emails without asking me?: Only if you tell it to. The usual setup is for Silk to draft replies and leave them for you to approve. You decide in plain words what it may send on its own.
Does my computer need to be on?: Yes. Schedules run on your computer while Silk is running. Turn on Start at login and leave the computer awake, or pick a time when you know it will be on. A desktop or a Mac mini that stays on works well.
Can I get the briefing on my phone?: Yes. Pair Silk with Telegram and ask it to send the briefing there as well as saving it to your folder.
Can it do an evening recap too?: Yes. A popular pairing is a morning briefing and a nightly "what you got done today" note saved to your work folder. Just ask for both.