How To Use AI With Your Work: Automate Routine Tasks and Reclaim Your Time with AI Automation

Reclaim your morning with a daily brief

Every morning used to start the same way: open up to eight tabs, check the market, read the top news, and repeat the same six checks. The problem was never finding information. It was doing the same routine every single day. That eats up 40 minutes, sometimes an hour, and checking X for news ends in doom scrolling.

Work Buddy fixes this with a scheduled automation. Instead of starting from zero each day, you get a brief waiting for you. It pulls the data, filters out what moved, and gives you a summary. The setup takes less than 15 minutes and only needs three things: a watchlist file, a prompt written once, and a schedule that runs the prompt on its own.

Set up two automations: daily and weekly

The watchlist file is plain text. It holds your ticker symbols and is the only file you edit regularly. The prompt is written once and controls the checks and the format. The automation handles the remembering.

This example uses a daily monitoring pass and a weekly deep dive. The daily pass runs Monday to Friday at 7:30 a.m. before market open. It checks price, volume, moving average position, and the one news item that matters for each name in your list. The weekly automation reads a separate file with a single ticker and runs every Friday after market close. It produces one full deep dive with a bull case, bear case, and valuation against peers.

A key mistake to avoid: the automation cannot see your previous conversation. Future runs only know what is in the prompt. Write the tickers directly into the automation prompt. Do not write "use my watchlist." If you skip this, the brief will be missing the stocks you care about.

Run it manually once before you schedule it

Before you automate anything, run the prompt manually one time. Read the output. Check if anything is wrong, missing, or too long. Fix the prompt now, not after. A bad prompt gives you a bad brief every single day, and you will stop using it.

Once the automations are running, the daily brief takes one or two minutes to skim. Look for what moved and what you need to care about. The weekly deep dive is the one you actually read. Check four things: freshness (did it pull live data), the big number that could change your decision, any confidence claim without data, and recommendation drift from the previous week.

This is the setup the channel uses. The daily brief lands in a folder and gets read with coffee. The weekly report goes to the team every Friday. If you want to take it further, a simple dashboard or website could show the same data at a glance, but that is a separate project.