Three tiles from one prompt
Joan booked a fifteen-minute call with one goal: get Claude working with xTiles, and finally get Gmail hooked up properly. xTiles was already connected to Claude — if yours isn't yet, connecting takes three clicks. Gmail and Google Calendar were added from Claude's own connector list, and that was the whole setup: nothing extra to configure on the xTiles side.
Then came a new chat and one pasted prompt. Claude read the inbox and the calendar, asked for permission before writing anything, and three tiles appeared on the day's page in the xTiles Planner.
What each tile is for
- Morning — a short summary of the day, so you know its shape before opening a single app.
- Today's meetings — pulled from Google Calendar, so the schedule sits next to everything else.
- Important emails to review — the messages from Gmail that actually need you, instead of the whole inbox.
Together they answer the first questions of a workday — what's happening, who you're meeting, and what's waiting — on one page, before you've opened Gmail or your calendar yourself.
Four choices to make before tomorrow's brief
The first run is a starting point, not the finished routine. After it, four small decisions shape what you'll see every morning.
Summary or tasks
The default output is a readable summary. Ask instead for tasks with due dates and Claude creates those — they land on your Planner like any other task. The format is just how you phrase the request.
By hand or on a schedule
The same prompt can run as a scheduled task, so the tiles are waiting when you open xTiles. See how to schedule a daily brief.
Low or medium effort
For a prompt that reads several connected tools at once, raise the effort setting next to the model selector from low to medium. It gives a noticeably better result without a big jump in usage.
Which tools come next
More connectors follow the same browse-and-connect path in Claude. Add them when you're ready — the brief only reads what's connected.
Claude asks before it writes
The connection works inside Claude: you talk to Claude, and it reads or updates your Planner and projects. Before creating the tiles, it asked for permission — which was exactly what Joan wanted to confirm.
Always asking me first before it makes a change. Right. Joan, confirming how Claude works with xTiles
That holds when you move from summaries to tasks, too: nothing lands in your workspace until you approve it.
One working prompt is enough for day one
Joan's bar for the call was clear: "That's all I want today. Just simply to start today." A single prompt that fills the morning page is a real start — the choices above can come one at a time, as tomorrow's brief shows you what's missing.