How to Build a Morning Briefing Bot That Texts You Every Day

Most people start their day reacting. Checking emails, scrolling, putting out fires before they've even had coffee.

This changes that. Here's how I built an n8n workflow that sends me a personalized morning briefing every day at 6:45 AM, straight to Telegram. Takes about an hour to set up and runs forever.

What It Sends You

Every morning you get a single Telegram message with:

Today's date and a one-line weather summary
Your top 3 priorities for the day (pulled from a Google Sheet you maintain)
One calendar event reminder if you have something today
A short motivator generated by Claude. Not generic. Tailored to what you're working toward.

That's it. No noise. Just what you need to lock in.

The Tech Stack

n8n: runs the whole workflow on a schedule
Claude API: generates the daily motivator
Google Sheets: your priority list lives here
Google Calendar: pulls today's events
Telegram Bot: delivers the message to your phone

The Workflow Structure

Schedule Trigger (6:45 AM)
  → Google Sheets (fetch priorities)
  → Google Calendar (fetch today's events)
  → Claude (generate motivator)
  → Format Message
  → Telegram (send)

Total nodes: 6. Build time: under an hour.

Step 1: Set Up Your Priority Sheet

Create a Google Sheet with one tab called Priorities. Three columns: Priority, Status, Notes.

Keep your top 3 active priorities in rows 1 through 3. Update it whenever your focus shifts. The workflow pulls whatever is in those rows. What you write there is what shows up in your briefing.

Step 2: Create the Telegram Bot

Open Telegram and message @BotFather
Send /newbot and follow the prompts
Copy the bot token
Message your new bot once, then go to https://api.telegram.org/bot{YOUR_TOKEN}/getUpdates to grab your chat ID

You'll need both the token and your chat ID for the n8n credentials.

Step 3: The Claude Prompt

This is what makes the briefing feel personal instead of robotic. In the Claude node, use this prompt:

You are a morning coach. The user's name is [YOUR NAME].

Their top priorities this week:
1. {{$json["Priority1"]}}
2. {{$json["Priority2"]}}
3. {{$json["Priority3"]}}

Their goal: [YOUR GOAL, e.g. replace warehouse income with AI services by end of year].

Write a 2-sentence morning motivator that is direct, honest, and grounded in what they are actually working on. No fluff. No generic inspiration quotes. Sound like a person who believes in them.

The output is different every day but always relevant because it knows what you're actually building.

Step 4: Format the Final Message

Use an n8n Code node to assemble everything into one clean message block:

const priorities = [
  $('Google Sheets').item.json.Priority1,
  $('Google Sheets').item.json.Priority2,
  $('Google Sheets').item.json.Priority3,
];

const events = $('Google Calendar').all();
const todayEvent = events.length > 0
  ? `📅 ${events[0].json.summary} at ${events[0].json.start.dateTime}`
  : 'Nothing on the calendar today.';

const motivator = $('Claude').item.json.content[0].text;

return {
  message: `☀️ Morning Briefing\n\n🎯 Today's Priorities:\n1. ${priorities[0]}\n2. ${priorities[1]}\n3. ${priorities[2]}\n\n${todayEvent}\n\n💬 ${motivator}`
};

Step 5: Schedule It

Set the Schedule Trigger to fire at whatever time you want your briefing. I use 6:45 AM on weekdays. The whole run takes about 8 seconds.

Download the Template

The full n8n workflow JSON is on the Free Tools page. Import it, swap in your credentials, update the Claude prompt with your name and goal, and it's running.

Want help wiring this up? Book a free call. I can usually get it running with you live in 20 minutes.