Today - Daily Productivity Skill

Overview

A daily ritual skill that reviews your workspace activity, summarizes progress, identifies blockers, and suggests focus items for sustained productivity. Features interactive review mode that guides you through priority setting and progress tracking.

Quick Start

bash

# Interactive review (auto-detects morning/midday/evening)
/today

# Specific modes
/today morning    # Full review + set priorities
/today midday     # Quick progress check
/today --eod      # End-of-day wrap-up

# Weekly review
/today --week

# Cron automation (runs at 6 AM)
0 6 * * * /path/to/workspace-hub/scripts/productivity/daily_today.sh

Interactive Modes

Mode	When	Duration	What It Does
Morning	Before noon	5 min	Full review, set 3 priorities
Midday	Noon-5pm	2 min	Progress check, log blockers
Evening	After 5pm / `--eod`	3 min	Wrap-up, capture tomorrow's focus

Morning Flow

•Review yesterday's git activity
•See open TODOs and in-progress work
•Interactive: Choose your top 3 priorities
•Optional: Block focus time

Midday Flow

•Quick status on priority #1
•Log any blockers
•Adjust priorities if needed

Evening Flow

•Mark priorities as done/partial/blocked
•Capture blockers for tomorrow
•Set tomorrow's starting focus

When to Use

•Start of workday ritual
•After returning from break/vacation
•Weekly planning sessions
•Automated daily reports via cron
•Before standup meetings

Instructions

Daily Review Process

Execute these steps in order:

1. Gather Context (Automated)

Collect data from these sources:

Source	What to Extract
Git logs	Commits from last 24h across all repos
TODO files	Open items in `TODO.md`, `TASKS.md`
Specs	In-progress specs in `specs/modules/`
Calendar	Today's meetings (if integrated)
Notes	Recent entries in daily notes

2. Generate Daily Summary

markdown

## Daily Summary - {DATE}

### Completed Yesterday
- [ ] List completed tasks from git commits
- [ ] Closed issues/PRs

### In Progress
- [ ] Active branches/PRs
- [ ] Open specs/plans

### Blocked/Waiting
- [ ] Items awaiting input
- [ ] Dependency blockers

### Today's Focus (Recommended)
1. **High Priority:** [Most impactful task]
2. **Quick Wins:** [Tasks completable in <30min]
3. **Deep Work:** [Requires focus time]

3. Long-Term Productivity Suggestions

Analyze patterns and suggest improvements:

Pattern	Suggestion
Many small commits	Consider batching related changes
Stale branches	Clean up or merge abandoned work
Repeated context switches	Block focus time for deep work
No tests in commits	Add TDD to workflow
Large uncommitted changes	Commit more frequently

4. Create Daily Log Entry

Save to logs/daily/{YYYY-MM-DD}.md:

markdown

---
date: {YYYY-MM-DD}
generated: auto
reviewed: false
---

# Daily Log - {DATE}

## Summary
[Auto-generated summary]

## Priorities
1.
2.
3.

## Notes
[Space for manual notes]

## End of Day Review
- [ ] Completed priorities
- [ ] Blockers encountered
- [ ] Tomorrow's focus

Data Sources Configuration

Configure in .claude/config/today.yaml:

yaml

today:
  sources:
    git:
      enabled: true
      lookback_hours: 24
      repos:
        - .  # Current repo
        - ../related-project

    files:
      todo_patterns:
        - "**/TODO.md"
        - "**/TASKS.md"
        - "**/.todo"

      notes_dir: "logs/daily"

    calendar:
      enabled: false  # Requires calendar integration

  output:
    daily_log_dir: "logs/daily"
    summary_format: "markdown"

  automation:
    cron_enabled: true
    notify_on_complete: false

Cron Setup

Installation

bash

# Make script executable
chmod +x scripts/productivity/daily_today.sh

# Add to crontab (runs at 6 AM daily)
crontab -e
# Add line:
0 6 * * * /path/to/workspace-hub/scripts/productivity/daily_today.sh >> /tmp/daily_today.log 2>&1

Cron Script Features

•Generates daily summary without interactive Claude
•Creates log file in logs/daily/
•Can trigger notifications (configurable)
•Supports multiple workspace roots

Examples

Morning Ritual

code

User: /today

Claude: ## Daily Summary - 2026-01-21

### Completed Yesterday
- Merged PR #42: Add user authentication
- Fixed 3 bugs in payment module
- Updated API documentation

### In Progress
- Feature: Dashboard analytics (branch: feature/analytics)
- Spec: Mobile app redesign (specs/modules/mobile-v2/)

### Blocked
- Waiting: Design review for mobile spec
- Dependency: Backend team to deploy auth service

### Today's Focus (Recommended)
1. **High Priority:** Complete analytics dashboard tests
2. **Quick Wins:** Review open PRs (2 waiting)
3. **Deep Work:** Start mobile navigation implementation

### Long-Term Suggestions
- Consider: 15 context switches yesterday - block 2h focus time
- Action: Stale branch `feature/old-feature` (30 days) - archive or delete

Weekly Planning

code

User: /today --week

Claude: ## Weekly Summary - Week of 2026-01-20

### Accomplishments
- 23 commits across 4 repositories
- 5 PRs merged, 2 pending
- 2 specs completed

### Patterns Observed
- Most productive: Tuesday (8 commits)
- Most meetings: Wednesday (4 hours)
- Suggestion: Protect Tuesday mornings for deep work

### Next Week Focus
1. Complete mobile spec review
2. Ship analytics v1
3. Technical debt: Refactor auth module

Best Practices

Do

•Run /today at consistent time each morning
•Review and adjust auto-generated priorities
•Update end-of-day notes before closing
•Use cron for consistent data collection
•Archive old daily logs monthly

Don't

•Skip the review - consistency builds habits
•Overload daily priorities (max 3-5 items)
•Ignore long-term suggestions repeatedly
•Let daily logs accumulate without review

Error Handling

Situation	Action
No git activity	Note "No commits" - suggest catching up
Missing config	Use defaults, create template config
Calendar unavailable	Skip calendar section, note in summary
Cron fails	Check log at `/tmp/daily_today.log`

Metrics

Track these for productivity insights:

Metric	Target	Description
Daily completion rate	>70%	Priorities marked done
Focus time	>4h/day	Uninterrupted work blocks
Context switches	<10/day	Task transitions
Commit frequency	3-8/day	Healthy progress indicators

Output Locations

Output	Location
Daily logs	`logs/daily/{YYYY-MM-DD}.md`
Weekly summaries	`logs/weekly/{YYYY-WW}.md`
Cron output	`/tmp/daily_today.log`
Config	`.claude/config/today.yaml`

Related Skills

•context-management - Manage context efficiently
•planning - Detailed planning methodology

Version History

•1.1.0 (2026-01-21): Add interactive review mode with morning/midday/evening flows
•1.0.0 (2026-01-21): Initial release with daily review, cron support, long-term suggestions