Evening Prep

You are given the following context for my day: $ARGUMENTS

Please create a new note in the "Daily Notes" folder.

The title should be "Daily Note - YYYY-MM-DD" using today's date.
Below the title, link to the Weekly Note for the current week using format: [[Weekly Note - Month Day, Year]] where the date is the Sunday of the current week

Step 1: read tomorrow's calendar events

Use the Microsoft 365 connector's outlook_calendar_search tool to fetch tomorrow's events:

afterDateTime: tomorrow at 00:00, beforeDateTime: tomorrow at 23:59
query: "*", order: "oldest", limit: 25

🚨 TIMEZONE: The connector returns times in UTC (ISO strings ending in Z). Convert each to Eastern Time before displaying — EDT = UTC−4 (mid-Mar to early-Nov), EST = UTC−5 otherwise. Flag any isAllDay events (PTO/OOO) as out-of-office rather than meetings.

Step 1b: Check tomorrow's Runna workout

Fetch the Runna ical feed (see CLAUDE.md "Data Sources") with curl -sL <url> and find the VEVENT whose DTSTART is tomorrow's date.

If one exists: the workout block is 9:00 AM + X-WORKOUT-ESTIMATED-DURATION (fall back to the high end of the duration range in SUMMARY/DESCRIPTION if that field is missing) + a 20-minute shower buffer after.
Check that block against tomorrow's calendar events from Step 1. If clear, note AJ is free for the workout and what time he's clear by. If a meeting falls inside the block, flag it by name and time so AJ can decide whether to move, shorten, or skip the workout.
If no workout is scheduled tomorrow, skip this silently — do not add a Workout section.

Step 2: Under the Agenda heading

Format my calendar events in a simple Markdown table with columns: Time (ET), Event Name, Owner, and Duration

Time should be the FIRST column
Put a star next to any events that overlap with other events
Put two !! next to any events starting before 9 AM ET or after 5 PM ET
Do not include personal appointments that don't affect my work day
My work day goes from 9 AM ET to 5:30 PM ET. Use this to determine my availability. Let me know how much unscheduled time I have.
Directly beneath the Agenda table, if Step 1b found a workout scheduled tomorrow, add a one-line Workout note stating whether the 9 AM block is clear or naming the conflicting meeting.

Step 3: Get task data

This Notion MCP has no filter/query tool and view:// URLs aren't fetchable, so use the search → fetch → filter pattern (see CLAUDE.md "HOW TO QUERY THESE DATABASES"). Do NOT try to fetch views and do NOT print any "falling back" message.

Get this week's focus projects — read the current Weekly Note (Weekly Notes/Weekly Note - <Sunday's date>.md) and use its listed focus projects + weekly goals. (Only if that note is missing: notion-search the Projects collection collection://2c0abd6c-450a-807a-a3d7-000b8d8aaecc with page_size: 25, fetch the results in parallel, and keep those with Focus this week = __YES__ and Status = "Active".)
Find candidate tasks — notion-search the Tasks collection collection://2c0abd6c-450a-8085-80a0-000ba136a154 with page_size: 25, max_highlight_length: 0, and a query seeded with the focus-project names plus "blocking due this week suggested today".
Fetch candidate task pages in parallel to read their real properties (Status, Suggested for today, Due date, Blocking, Priority, Project).
Filter & rank locally: drop Status = "Done" or "Blocked". Rank the rest by (1) Blocking populated, (2) Suggested for today ≤ tomorrow, (3) soonest Due date.

Format the note with the following sections:

Under Suggested Tasks list up to 3 tasks from the ranked set above (Blocking-others tasks always come first). For each, show the task name, related project, and a Notion link.
Under Key Projects list this week's focus projects with their weekly goal.

If a search legitimately returns no qualifying open tasks, say so plainly — never invent tasks to fill the list.

Step 4: Mark Top Tasks in Notion

The Tasks Tracker has a Top Task checkbox property and a Top Tasks view (filtered to Top Task = true AND Status != Done) for surfacing the current day's Big 3 at a glance. At most 3 tasks may be checked at any time.

Present the Suggested Tasks from Step 3 to AJ and let him confirm or swap any of them before finalizing.
notion-search the Tasks collection (collection://2c0abd6c-450a-8085-80a0-000ba136a154) filtered/queried for Top Task = true (or check the pages already known from recent notes) to find any tasks still marked from a prior day.
Any currently-marked task whose Status = "Done" gets Top Task set to false immediately — regardless of whether it's in today's agreed set (it can't be, since Step 3.4 already drops Done tasks). Don't wait for a replacement to unmark a completed task.
For each other currently-marked task that is NOT in today's agreed set, notion-update-page to set Top Task = false.
For each of the (up to 3) agreed tasks, notion-update-page to set Top Task = true.
Never have more than 3 tasks checked at once — unmark old ones before marking new ones.

Note: this only unchecks stale Done tasks when an evening-prep run touches them. It isn't real-time — if AJ marks a task Done in Notion outside of this flow, the checkbox stays checked until the next evening-prep pass (though the Top Tasks view already filters out Status = Done, so it won't show there regardless). True real-time un-checking would need a native Notion automation (Settings → Automations → when Status is set to Done → uncheck Top Task), which isn't something these tools can create.

Formatting Rules

Always provide a tl;dr summary at the top of the note
Add a "## Table of Contents" section after the frontmatter using Obsidian internal link syntax [[#Heading Name]] for all H2 sections
Include all major sections: tl;dr, Agenda, Suggested Tasks, Key Projects, Suggested Reading, etc.
Format all date displays as Month, Day Year

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