/today

Every morning I type /today into Claude and it creates this dashboard

Every morning I type /today into Claude. Then I get a coffee. A few minutes later, today’s dashboard is up and the day is already written for me.

Thursday, March 26. An “updated” timestamp. A little block of copy that starts with “Two meetings that matter today” like it’s my job to be organised. You can see that Claude even reminded me about the proposal due March 23, still open. Slightly judgy in my opinion.

I didn’t add a task for that proposal. Claude knows because it read it in a meeting transcript. When I type /today, Claude scans my emails, my calendars, my meeting transcripts.

The dashboard has a task page. I can add tasks the normal way. But Claude also proposes tasks it thinks I’ve committed to, and it gives me three options, Accept, Edit, Dismiss, like I’m moderating my own life. If I hit Accept, it goes into my list. If I hit Edit, I can fix the title or the date before it becomes real.

It’s not a nicer task list. It’s a system that keeps comparing what I’ve said I’d do to what I’ve actually committed to somewhere. If there’s a mismatch, it doesn’t create tasks behind my back. It politely proposes one, tells me why, and waits for a button press.

Then there’s my Progress page. I am very proud of this one. If you want to know what matters to somebody, look at what they do, not what they say. Claude tags my meetings, my emails, and the work I do inside Claude, which is most of it, and it tracks the time and the tokens without me having to label anything. That’s the trick. If I have to tag stuff, I won’t. Or I’ll do it for two days, then lie to myself.

So now I can see the week as it actually happened. I spend a lot of my time building things, which is a priority for me at the moment. I think it should be a priority for all marketers.

I built the dashboard, partly out of curiosity of what it is possible (a lot) but also to help me from doing admin badly, or doing it twice, or doing it late. I’ll write about it in more detail in my book.