Protect my mornings from meetings
Set a rule that mornings stay meeting-free unless explicitly allowed, with polite auto-replies to requests.
The prompt
Don't let anyone book me before 11am on weekdays. Reply politely when they try.
Most professionals’ best cognitive hours are in the morning. Most calendars are scheduled by people who don’t share that constraint. alfred_ enforces the boundary.
What alfred_ does
- Sets a calendar policy: morning hours marked busy or unavailable
- Detects new meeting requests in those hours and auto-responds with an alternative
- Drafts the response in your tone: brief, polite, suggesting an afternoon slot
- Logs any exceptions you approve so the rule stays consistent
Tips
- Make it concrete: “no meetings before 11am” works better than “I prefer afternoons”
- Whitelist exceptions: “Unless it’s my CEO or a customer interview”
- Pair with focus blocks: morning protection + a 9-11am focus block on the calendar is the full pattern
Related
Variations
- Block 8-11am on my calendar every weekday as focus time.
- Reject any meeting requests for mornings unless I say otherwise.
- Push all morning meeting requests to afternoon.
- Set a policy: no meetings before noon.
Best for
Knowledge workers who do their best creative or analytical work in the morning and lose it to back-to-back meetings.