You use Claude to write a personalized morning briefing — your priorities, your tone, your life. Then you use Make.com (free) to automatically send that message to your phone every morning as a real text. No API key. No monthly cost. Just a text that shows up before the day gets loud.
What you need: a Claude account (you have one), a Make.com account (free to create), and a Gmail account. That's it.
Module 01 — Write your templates with Claude
Before you set up any automation, you need the actual message. This is where Claude comes in — not to send the text, but to write the template that gets sent every day. Get this right and the automation basically runs itself.
Open Claude and use this prompt. Customize the details for your actual life.
Claude will give you a template. Ask it to adjust the tone, shorten it, or rewrite it until it sounds exactly like something you'd actually want to wake up to.
Good morning. Today: 1) Finish proposal 2) School pickup 3pm 3) Call back Dr. Lee. Remember: permission slip due Friday. You've got this.
While you're here, ask Claude for a short task reminder format — for when you need a specific nudge at a specific time.
Save both templates somewhere easy to find — your Notes app, a Claude Project, or just keep this chat open. You'll paste them into Make.com in the next step.
Module 02 — Set up Make.com
Make.com is a free visual automation tool — think of it like a flowchart that runs on a schedule. You connect pieces together and it does the work. No code involved.
Go to make.com and sign up with your email. The free tier gives you 1,000 operations per month — a daily text uses about 30 per month, so you have plenty of room.
No credit card required for the free tier. You won't be charged anything for this setup.
Once you're in, click "Create a new scenario." You'll land on a visual canvas with a big + button in the center. This is where you'll build your automation — one step at a time.
A scenario is just a sequence: trigger → action → action. Yours will be: every morning at 7am → send an email → lands on your phone as a text. That's it.
Module 03 — Schedule your daily text
This is the core setup. Three steps: tell Make.com when to run, connect your Gmail, and set the destination — your phone number via your carrier's email-to-text address.
Click the + button → search for "Schedule" → select it. Set it to run Every Day at the time you want your morning text — 6:30am, 7am, whatever works for your mornings.
Pick a time before the chaos starts — before school drop-off, before you open email. The briefing works best when it's the first thing you read.
Click the + after your Schedule trigger → search "Gmail" → select "Send an Email." Connect your Gmail account when prompted.
Now fill in the email fields:
To: your carrier email-to-text address (see cheat sheet below)
Subject: leave blank, or type a single word like "morning"
Body: paste your Claude-written morning briefing template here
Hit "Save" then toggle the scenario to Active. Before you wait until tomorrow morning, click "Run once" to send a test text right now and confirm it lands on your phone.
It might take 2–3 minutes to arrive the first time. If it doesn't show up, double-check the carrier address in the cheat sheet below — one wrong character and it won't deliver.
Module 04 — Add task reminders
The morning briefing runs every day automatically. Task reminders are one-offs — you set them up when you need them, they fire once, and they're done.
Back in Make.com, create a new scenario. This time when you add the Schedule trigger, choose "Once" and pick the exact date and time you want the reminder to fire.
In the Gmail module, paste the task reminder Claude helped you write in Step 2. Activate it. Done — it'll send once at that time and stop.
"Send the invoice before EOD Thursday." "Call the pediatrician at 9am tomorrow." "Pick up the cake before 5pm Friday."
Any time you'd set a calendar alert but want it to feel more like a direct message to yourself.
Every few weeks, open Claude and ask it to refresh your morning briefing template — new priorities, different schedule, a season that calls for a different tone. Paste the updated version back into Make.com.
Carrier email-to-text addresses
Replace [number] with your 10-digit phone number (no dashes or spaces). For example: 2125550100@vtext.com
| Carrier | Email-to-text address |
|---|---|
| AT&T | [number]@txt.att.net |
| Verizon | [number]@vtext.com |
| T-Mobile | [number]@tmomail.net |
| Sprint | [number]@messaging.sprintpcs.com |
| Cricket | [number]@mms.cricketwireless.net |
| Boost Mobile | [number]@sms.myboostmobile.com |
| Metro by T-Mobile | [number]@mymetropcs.com |
| US Cellular | [number]@email.uscc.net |
Copy-paste starter templates
Write me a short morning briefing I'll receive as a text every day. I'm a mom of [X kids, ages]. I [work from home / go into an office]. Include: my top 3 priorities for the day (leave placeholders), one thing to remember, and one short grounding line. Keep the whole thing under 300 characters. Warm tone, not corporate.
Write me a short, direct reminder text I can send myself at [time] on [day]. The reminder is: [task]. Keep it under 120 characters. Friendly but direct — not robotic, not cutesy.
Here's my current morning briefing template: [paste it]. My life has shifted — [describe what changed]. Update the template to reflect this. Keep it the same length and tone.
Want Claude to write a fresh briefing every single morning?
This guide uses a static template — same format each day, you fill in the priorities. That works for most people and costs nothing.
If you want Claude to dynamically generate your briefing each morning based on your calendar, current priorities, or whatever you feed it — that's possible too. It requires connecting a Claude API key inside Make.com and a small amount of additional setup.
We'll cover that in a future guide. For now, the static template gets you 90% of the value in a fraction of the time.
The day goes better when it starts on purpose.
A 30-minute setup. A text that lands every morning before the noise starts. Three priorities in your hand before you open your inbox.
Set it up once. Let it run.
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