Every morning, before I open Slack and even before I check email, I've started doing one thing that has boosted my producitivity and changed my workflow. I simply open Claude and type out my day including everything from professional meetings to my kids' evening activities.
I do this, not in the same way I would say, set up my weekly calendar, and definitely not in the same way I would journal about my day. I don't even elaborate much. It's just a quick, messy brain dump of everything on my plate. From the meetings and deadlines to random tasks rattling around in my head, in just 10 seconds of typing, I let Claude know what I've got going on and hit send.
From there, Claude summarizes it back to me. The magic of this is in the articulation, which, is something Claude does especially well. By doing this, I’m performing a cognitive offload. In neurology, this triggers a "closing of the loop." By externalizing the chaos of the day, it effectively stops the Zeigarnik Effect (the brain's tendency to obsess over unfinished tasks) from draining my mental battery before I’ve even had my first cup of coffee.
