Your morning, on paper. Your mail, your calendar and the night's news, printed as a newspaper at seven, so the laptop can stay closed. Scroll to print
An announcement / The morning edition
Each morning at seven, a printer at home produces a private newspaper: the night's finance and AI news, the mail that needs an answer, today's appointments, and nothing that asks you to keep scrolling.
The idea
The first thing most people read each day is a lock screen. It arrives bright, unsorted and endless, and it asks for a decision before the kettle has boiled.
The Daily Journal reverses the order. While you sleep, it reads your inboxes, your Google Calendar and the overnight news, decides what matters and sets it in type. When you wake, the briefing is already on paper, finished and waiting in the tray.
It also ends. A few pages, three columns, a last line. Then you can put it down.
What you hold
A blackletter masthead, Georgia body type never smaller than 8.8 points, fine rules, captions and page numbers. Each story carries its source and the time it was published, so last night's news never passes for this morning's.
| Paper | A4, single-sided |
|---|---|
| Length | Two pages or more |
| Columns | Three per page |
| Ink | Black, laser |
| Printed | 07:00, every day |
The habit
Fold it beside the coffee. Circle the mail you must answer. Underline the figure you want to check later. Paper keeps its order: the same story is in the same place when you return to it.
By the time you open the laptop, you already know what the day holds, and what can wait.
02 / How the paper is made
Nobody stays up for it. The press keeps to a timetable, checks its own work and refuses to print anything it cannot stand behind.
Three wires, one paper
The morning run
It confirms today's date and checks that this edition has not already been made. A paper is never prepared twice.
New mail from each inbox is read in full. Nothing is marked read, moved, deleted or answered. An inbox that cannot be reached is named on the page.
Today's events come in from Google Calendar, with times, places and anything that needs preparing beforehand.
Finance and AI developments from the past day, opened at the original source. Event time, publication time and collection time are kept apart.
Plain summaries with every claim attributed. Duplicate stories are merged. Quotes, prices and deadlines are never invented.
Three columns, captioned pictures, page numbers. Every page is rendered and inspected for clipped or crowded type before approval.
One copy, A4, single-sided. The PDF is kept on file, and a ledger records the job so the paper prints exactly once.
Times between 06:30 and 07:00 are approximate.
What is printed
The sender asks for a signed renewal form before Friday. No form has been completed by the paper. Check the request in the signed-in account.
Private email / Sample sender / Received 05:22
Google Calendar / Sample events
Illustrative entries with invented senders and events. Passwords, codes and private links are never printed.
03 / The house rules
Seven standing orders, kept by the press every morning without exception.
Each story names where it came from and when it was published. Weekend market figures say which day they describe.
A ledger and a lock stop a second copy. If a print result is unclear, it is checked before anything is sent again.
If an inbox could not be read in time, the page says so. An old summary is never presented as fresh.
Generated engravings are captioned as artwork and never passed off as photographs of real events.
Mail is summarised, not sent, deleted or moved. Message bodies are treated as information, never as instructions.
No tips and no recommendations. Only what moved, and the evidence for why.
If the morning window passes, the press waits for tomorrow rather than deliver breakfast news at lunch.
The news will still be there at nine. The first quiet hour of the day will not.
The EditorDelivered to the tray at seven o'clock sharp. No subscription, no screen, no notifications.
Quiet mornings. Apply at the breakfast table, daily.
The urge to refresh. Last seen just before seven.
The laptop may remain closed until after breakfast. By order of the Editor.
04 / Get your own edition
The Daily Journal runs on your own computer, with your own AI coding agent. Your mail and calendar are read there and go nowhere except your printer.
Three ways to start
By agent / Claude Code, Codex, Cursor
Paste this into your agent. It fetches the code, connects the tools, asks your preferences and prints a test page before it schedules anything.
Set up The Daily Journal for me from https://github.com/thegreatLUCY/daily-journal. Clone it to ~/daily-journal-kit, then read SETUP.md there and follow it. Ask me before printing anything or scheduling the daily runs.
By plugin / Claude Code
Adds the skill and the print tools in one step. Then ask Claude to set up your daily journal.
claude plugin marketplace add thegreatLUCY/daily-journal claude plugin install daily-journal@daily-journal
By hand / Open source, MIT
The MCP server, the skill, bundled fonts and an invented sample edition, with set-up notes for any MCP client.
View on GitHub Download zip / 1.4 MB| You need | A Mac or Linux computer that is on at print time, and a printer it can reach |
|---|---|
| Your agent needs | Access to your mail and calendar, for example Gmail, Outlook and Google Calendar connectors |
| Cost | Free. Each morning's run uses your own AI subscription |