# Run a recurring summary or check-in

Schedule alfred_ to summarize a topic, project, or queue on a regular cadence, daily, weekly, or your choice.

Source: https://get-alfred.ai/docs/prompt-book/cross-tool/recurring-summary  
Updated: 2026-05-01

Works in: Chat, Text

## The prompt

- Every \[CADENCE], summarize \[TOPIC] and \[DELIVER WHERE].

The standard daily briefing is one recurring report. This prompt is about setting up *your own*, scoped to whatever topic, person, or queue you care about, on whatever cadence you want.

## What alfred_ does

1. Sets up a scheduled job, at the cadence you specified
2. At each fire time: pulls the data, summarizes, delivers
3. Output goes wherever you said (in-app, SMS, email, append-to-note)
4. Stays running until you pause or remove it

## What can be recurring

**Topic / project digest:**

- "Every day at 9am, summarize any activities related to the 10 PMF companies"
- "Every Monday, give me a status on the Acme deal"

**Queue digest:**

- "Every morning, what's on my list today?"
- "Every Friday at 5pm, what didn't get done this week?"

**Person digest:**

- "Every Monday, summarize anything new from the Acme team"
- "Daily, anything from my CEO that I should see first"

**Tracking append:**

- "Every day at 9am, append today's PMF activity to the 2026 PMF note", see [Track a topic in a running note](https://get-alfred.ai/docs/prompt-book/cross-tool/append-to-running-note)

## Adjusting the standard daily briefing

The default morning briefing is itself a recurring summary you can tune:

- "Set my morning briefing to 6:30am"
- "Move my morning briefing to 7am"
- "Add the calendar section to my morning briefing"
- "Skip the briefing on weekends"

## Pausing or removing

When the project ends, the recurring report should too:

- "Pause the 2026 PMF digest" (real user phrasing)
- "Stop the daily Acme summary"
- "Turn off the Monday status report"

To check what's running:

- "What recurring summaries do I have?"
- "What workflows are scheduled?"

## Output channel

You can specify where you want it:

- "...send it to me on SMS"
- "...email it to me"
- "...just put it in my morning briefing"
- "...append to my \[NOTE] note"

## Related

- [Track a topic in a running note](https://get-alfred.ai/docs/prompt-book/cross-tool/append-to-running-note)
- [What needs my attention?](https://get-alfred.ai/docs/prompt-book/tasks/morning-brief)
- [Daily briefing reference](https://get-alfred.ai/docs/routines/morning-brief#whats-in-it)

## Variations

- Every day at 9am, summarize any activities that relate to those 10 PMF companies
- Set my morning briefing to 6:30am
- Every Monday morning, give me a status on the Acme deal
- Every Friday at 5pm, summarize what got done this week
- Pause the 2026 PMF digest

## Best for

Ongoing tracking on something specific, a deal pipeline, a project, a queue, a relationship, that should keep updating without you having to ask.