Claude Cowork, Notion, Google Calendar
Evan Tarver · May 26, 2026
About 1.5 hours a week on planning
TL;DR
What did Evan Tarver use Claude Cowork for?
Every Friday at 4 p.m. a Claude Cowork automation reviews how the week went, checks it against quarterly and annual plans in Notion, and puts next week's time blocks on Google Calendar. They say planning "went from 2 hours (inconsistently) to under 30 minutes (every week)."
What they did
They built one scheduled Claude Cowork automation that fires every Friday at 4 p.m. It runs a post-mortem on the past week's plan, reads the annual and quarterly plans stored in Notion, drafts next week's schedule and pushes the time blocks to Google Calendar. It also writes "decision traces," notes on how they actually work, to a Notion database it reads next time.
How it went
They say planning "went from 2 hours (inconsistently) to under 30 minutes (every week)."
"Planning went from 2 hours (inconsistently) to under 30 minutes (every week)"
— Evan Tarver
Worth knowing
- The first week has no post-mortem because there is no earlier plan to compare. It relies on goals and plans already written down in Notion.
- Price check: Claude: free plan; Pro: US$20/month, or US$17/month on a yearly plan (US$200/year) (checked Nov 1, 2026); Notion: free plan; Plus: US$12/month, or US$10/month on a yearly plan (US$120/year) (checked Oct 26, 2026).
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Try it yourself
Paste this into a chatbot, then add your own details underneath.
Here is last week's plan and what I actually finished: [paste]. Here are my goals for this quarter: [paste]. Write a short post-mortem (done, missed, why), then draft next week's schedule as time blocks with no more than three priorities a day, and note one pattern about how I really work.
Original post
See Evan Tarver's original post on YouTube → (May 26, 2026)
Filed under Admin & Inbox hacks · Content Creators
Sources
- Evan Tarver on YouTube, May 26, 2026 — the original post
- Claude pricing — checked Nov 1, 2026
- Notion pricing — checked Oct 26, 2026