The daily chore worth handing off
Chloe is a medical student with ADHD who moved their whole system into the xTiles planner — in place of a separate to-do app and a calendar app, and found it a lot easier to use than Notion. It runs on phone and desktop, and it's opened every day: small tasks get checked off as they happen, tomorrow's tasks are planned ahead, and class notes and PDFs live on the same pages.
One part of the routine was still manual: moving unfinished tasks forward. When we showed Chloe that Claude can review overdue tasks and reschedule them to today, the reaction — quoted above — said it all. The chore was already happening, just by hand.
It isn't that the planner wasn't working. Asked about xTiles as a whole, Chloe said it has "helped so much, cut down a lot of my time where I just spend trying to make a plan and make a schedule." Handing the daily reschedule to Claude is another place to trim that same time.
What Claude does with your overdue tasks
Inside a Daily Brief workflow, Claude works through a set of steps before your day starts. One of them is reviewing every task that slipped past its date and rescheduling it to today, so yesterday's unfinished work is already waiting on today's page instead of sitting overdue.
It's one step in a longer workflow rather than a separate tool. A brief can also include:
- Overdue tasks, rescheduled — everything you didn't finish moves to today automatically.
- Chat highlights — important threads and mentions from tools like Slack, so you don't have to scroll back to find them.
- Meeting notes — a summary of the notes from the tools you already use.
The reschedule step is one part of the workflow, not all of it. When Chloe asked whether they could choose just a few things for Claude to handle instead of everything, the answer was yes — you decide what goes in.
Why rescheduling by hand adds up
Rescheduling one task is quick. Rescheduling a handful every morning is not — as we put it on the call, "sometimes you have a lot of them, a lot of steps." Each leftover task needs to be found, opened, and moved, and the whole thing repeats tomorrow.
For many people with ADHD, that small daily decision about yesterday's leftovers is exactly the kind of friction that eats the start of a day. Keeping yourself organized takes real effort, which is why it's worth delegating the repetitive part to Claude: set the workflow once, and it keeps running.
How to set it up
Open the Claude workflows page
Go to the xTiles workflows page, which collects the ways to use xTiles with Claude. Watch a workflow video if you'd like to see one in action, then click Start with Claude.
Answer a few questions
Claude asks a couple of questions about you and which tools you want to use alongside xTiles.
Ask for the overdue step
Tell Claude you want it to review your overdue tasks and reschedule them to today. It sits alongside anything else you include.
Review the draft and save it
Claude gives you a draft of what the workflow produces. If you like it, save it to xTiles.
Schedule it
Set the workflow to run on a schedule and it works every day without you triggering it. See how to schedule a daily brief for timing ideas.
What changes once it runs on its own
You open your laptop and the leftovers from yesterday are already on today's page. There's nothing to drag, no list to scan for what slipped, and no deciding again where each task should go. The workflow runs on its own schedule, so it doesn't depend on you remembering to trigger it.
By the end of the call, Chloe was opening the workflows page to try it — and asked to be sent the link.
A companion step: log what you finished
The same setup can also look back at the end of the day. Claude reviews what you did — meetings, Slack threads, even a webinar — and creates completed tasks for work that never made it onto a list. Chloe's reaction:
Oh, okay. I like that. Chloe, medical student, on tasks logged automatically as completed
Read more about how it works in AI-logged completed tasks. Together, the two steps cover both ends of the day: yesterday's leftovers move forward in the morning, and today's finished work gets recorded at night.