Morning & Inbox

How it works

The mechanics of this kit, plainly — what runs and when, where the data lands, and what you look at.

• Morning sweep runs weekdays · 7am and keeps the Your day dashboard fresh. Each weekday it reads overnight mail and sets out what needs you.
• Morning replies runs weekdays · 8am, in 2 stages: Lark reads and picks (handing over needs reply), then Lark drafts the replies (handing over drafted).
• What is captured lands in the Things that need you dataset, which lives at Data/Things That Need You in your vault — yours to open, search, and edit like any other file.
• What is captured lands in the Senders to review dataset, which lives at Data/Senders To Review in your vault — yours to open, search, and edit like any other file.
• The Your day dashboard reads from the dataset. What's open, what's handled, and everything that needs you — at a glance.

The wiring, in one breath: Morning sweep writes to Things that need you · Inbox triage writes to Things that need you · Things that need you shown by Your day · Your day kept fresh by Morning sweep · Morning replies reads Things that need you · Lark holds Inbox triage · Day view and wrap up reads Things that need you · Unsubscribe list reads Things that need you · Unsubscribe list writes to Senders to review.

Getting the most from it

A kit earns its place when it changes what you look at and what you say, not when it is installed. This is the rhythm that makes it pay.

• Start the day from Your day, not from the inbox. The sweep has already sorted overnight mail into what needs you; the rest can wait for an afternoon pass.
• Read the drafts before your first meeting. Lark writes into your drafts folder and never sends, so a five-minute edit-and-send is the whole morning routine.
• Mid-day, ask Lark to triage on demand — "what has come in since this morning that needs me" — instead of opening the inbox yourself.
• Say what the sweep got wrong — "newsletters never need me", "anything from finance does" — and the short-list gets shorter; those rules are remembered.
• Tell Lark how you write — "shorter", "I sign off with just my initial" — and it saves that as a preference; every draft after follows it.
• At the end of the day, ask Lark to wrap it up. It shows what is still open, which replies look handled from your sent mail, how many drafts are still waiting and what is first tomorrow. It closes nothing until you say, and it cannot remind you at a set time.
• Ask Lark "what does my day look like" and it lays today's calendar beside what needs you, and says so when someone waiting on you is also in one of your meetings. Connect your calendar under Connectors if you want it in the view; without it you get the list and Lark says so.
• Once in a while, ask Lark who you could unsubscribe from. It counts what has arrived and what you never opened or answered, lists the senders on Senders to review, and marks each one as you tell it. You unsubscribe yourself, from the link inside the message.
• Have two inboxes? Under Connectors choose Add another Gmail account, then tell Lark to include it. The sweep, the reply pass and every ask read both, each draft is saved in the inbox the message came to, and Your day shows one list. If that inbox ever lapses, the sweep says so on its card.

Make it yours

Nothing here is fixed. The pieces are ordinary agents, routines, datasets and dashboards, so anything you know about shaping those applies. Retire whatever earns nothing.

Things people usually change first

Say any of these in chat, or edit them on the kit’s page in the app.

• What earns a place on the list, and what is left off it.
• When the sweep runs, and whether it runs at weekends.
• Whether replies are drafted for you, or only flagged.
• How the day board is grouped.
• Which inboxes are read: add a second Gmail account under Connectors, then tell Lark to include it.
• Which calendar counts as yours when Lark lays out your day.

Your first run

Installing starts a short setup conversation — not a form. Answer roughly, correct later.

1. Adding the Kit offers the first sweep right away: connect your email on the same screen, start it with one tap, and watch it read back through the last week and set aside what genuinely needs a reply or a decision — a short list instead of a full inbox. Prefer not to connect email? Tell Lark what is sitting there instead, and the list builds by hand.
2. When that first sweep finishes, Lark leaves a short note in your 1Presence inbox saying what it set aside — how many things, from how many senders — and invites two minutes together: who always matters, what must never make the list, and when you would like the digest each morning. How the drafted replies should read — the sign-off, brisk or warm — rides the same conversation.
3. From then on it raises a short card only when something new needs you — otherwise it stays quiet.
4. You correct what it set aside, in chat. Those corrections make the second morning better than the first.

Watch the first pass, then tell it what you would have done differently — that correction teaches it more than any setup could.

The essentials

Learning, preferences and run costs work the same in every kit — so they are covered once, in the Kits guide.

Living with a Kit — the Kits guide →

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