During Coffee with Claude Time

I keep my laptop off at night which means when I boot up in the morning, I’m greeted by Claude wanting to share my coffee as it starts a set of three tasks. While Claude scampers around to gather VAT receipts, make updates to several of my slide decks, and alerts me to money pots, I tap into Inoreader and Fabric to see what they’ve discovered while I was sleeping.

Letting Claude run part of my morning means I save more than 30 minutes before I finish my cup of coffee. It also means I have to review a set of scheduled tasks that I have set up to run automatically without me actively watching.

Being able to have Claude run scheduled tasks automatically is the second reason why I started paying for Claude Pro. The first reason to pay €22 a month to Claude is to get high quality writing that sounds like me. To inherit my authentic voice, I populated Claude with samples like this blog post. By doing that, Claude should produce text that appears to be written (or dictated) while I’m finishing my morning brew.

I started depending on simple Claude automations in early 2025. Letting Claude accomplish low-risk tasks like generating Morning Briefs or scavenging my rat’s nest of folders to compile information I really needed before I blocked it with my spam filters.

I still don’t let Claude send messages before I review them, make purchases, or take other actions that are difficult to undo. But I let Claude wake me up with annoying alarms when I finds a CLASS-A item while I’m sleeping.

I need to pause tasks that don’t need to run at the moment. They burn tokens and use electrical power. I think about reviewing my scheduled tasks that sit in the “Scheduled” page of Claude’s left sidebar. It’s not good for the earth to let a task run in the background if I’m not going to at least review its output. I also have some scheduled tasks running when my laptop is turned off. I’ll explain how that works in another blog post. You might be able to guess what I’m doing with Cloud-based services by scrolling through my Inside View photos.