Reshape your calendar around your Oura readiness score

Every weekday at 6:30am, check my Oura recovery data and reshape my day around it. Run this on a schedule, since Oura does not send outgoing notifications when new scores appear.

Start by pulling my Oura data. Use List Daily Readiness for today's readiness score, List Daily Sleep for last night's sleep score, and List Daily Stress for my recent stress pattern. Request the last 8 days from each rather than only today, because I want every number compared against its own trailing 7 day average. If today's readiness or sleep score has not synced yet, say so plainly in the briefing and skip all calendar changes rather than guessing at a number.

Then read today's schedule from my primary Google Calendar with List Events, scoped to today in my calendar's own time zone, expanding recurring events into individual instances so you see the real shape of the day.

If today's readiness is below 70, treat it as a recovery day. Look through today's meetings and identify the ones that look optional or low stakes. Good signals: it is a recurring sync rather than a one time conversation, it has a large attendee list where my attendance is marked optional, it has no agenda or description, or it has no clear decision that needs me in the room. Weigh these together instead of applying any single rule mechanically, and leave anything that looks like a client meeting, an interview, a one to one, or a session I organise alone. For each meeting you flag, give me the title, the time, and one short sentence on why it looks skippable.

Important: propose these as candidates only. Do not decline, delete, or move anything on my calendar, and do not message any organisers or attendees. I decide what actually gets cut.

Still on recovery days, find the largest free gap in my working day and use Create Event to block a 45 minute recovery window inside it. Title it something clear like "Recovery block" and note in the description that it was added because readiness came in low. Place it away from the very start and end of the day where possible, and if there is no free gap long enough to hold it, skip the block and tell me the day is too full to fit one.

If today's readiness is 80 or above, treat it as a high capacity day. Do not add a recovery block. Instead, look at the gaps between my meetings and tell me which single slot is the best window for deep work, preferring the longest uninterrupted stretch and calling out how long it runs.

If readiness falls between 70 and 79, treat it as a normal day. Make no changes to my calendar and simply send the briefing with my scores and how the day looks.

Finally, send the whole briefing to me as a Slack direct message using Send a Message. Include my readiness, sleep and stress scores for today, how each one compares to its trailing 7 day average with the direction of the change, the meetings worth cutting with your reasoning, and either the recovery block that was added or the deep work window you recommend. Keep it short enough to read on a phone before the first meeting, use Slack formatting, and lead with the single most important takeaway about how today should be paced.

The 70 and 80 thresholds are defaults drawn from Oura's own guidance and should be easy to change: readiness under 70 signals prioritising rest, while scores in the mid 80s and above signal readiness for new challenges. If my scores usually run higher or lower than average, both numbers should be adjustable in one obvious place.