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Morning Brain Starter prioritizes your Asana tasks based on the day of the week, ensuring you focus on the right clients and projects each day.

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How It Works

The system uses a day-of-week configuration to sort tasks by project priority. Tasks are grouped by project and ordered according to a priority list that changes each day.

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Configuration File

Task ordering is configured in config/asana_order.yaml:
asana_order.yaml
# Task order by day of week (project names only, not clients).
# Morning routine shows tasks ordered by this priority.
# Keys: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday (English, as returned by datetime).
# First items each day: 2 priority client projects; then the rest (Deep Work, Marketing, etc.).

Monday:
  - Tycho
  - Rocinante
  - Deep Work
  - Marketing
  - Management
  - Personal
Tuesday:
  - MCR
  - Acme
  - Marketing
  - Business Development
  - Management
  - Personal
Wednesday:
  - Mao-Kwikowski
  - Tycho
  - Deep Work
  - Marketing
  - Personal
Thursday:
  - SOPs
  - Management
  - Marketing
  - Personal
Friday:
  - Acme
  - Mao-Kwikowski
  - Management
  - Marketing
  - Personal
  - Wrap-up
Day names must be in English (Monday, Tuesday, etc.) as returned by Python’s datetime module.

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Client Focus by Day

The configuration supports a strategic weekly rhythm. From context/addons/asana-order-by-day.md:6-15:
DayClientNotes
MondayrocinanteRocinante Corp
Tuesdaymao-kwikowskiMao-Kwikowski
WednesdaymcrMCR
ThursdaytychoTycho
FridayacmeAcme
This table helps you plan which client gets priority attention each day for:
  • Meeting reviews
  • Bitácora updates
  • Project focus time
  • Communication

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Ordering Logic

Tasks are sorted using this algorithm:
1

Determine today's priority list

Look up the current day (Monday-Friday) in asana_order.yaml
2

Group tasks by project

All tasks are grouped by their Asana project name
3

Sort projects

Projects appear in the order defined in today’s priority list. Projects not in the list appear at the end.
4

Sort within projects

Within each project, tasks are sorted alphabetically by name (or by duration if using [1h] notation)
From /home/daytona/workspace/source/context/addons/asana-order-by-day.md:19-24:
  1. By day: Monday, Tuesday, … have different project priorities
  2. Within the day: Tasks are grouped by project and ordered by the day’s list (first project = first in list)
  3. Within each project: Alphabetical order by task name
  4. Optional anchors: First task like “Good morning”, last task “Good evening” if they exist in your list

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Example Scenarios

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Monday Focus

On Monday, your task list will show:
  1. All Tycho tasks
  2. All Rocinante tasks
  3. All Deep Work tasks
  4. All Marketing tasks
  5. All Management tasks
  6. All Personal tasks
  7. Any other projects (alphabetically)

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Friday Wrap-Up

On Friday, Wrap-up tasks appear last, perfect for end-of-week reviews:
  1. Acme tasks
  2. Mao-Kwikowski tasks
  3. Management tasks
  4. Marketing tasks
  5. Personal tasks
  6. Wrap-up tasks
  7. Other projects

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Matching Project Names

Project names in the YAML can be:
  • Exact matches: “Tycho” matches project named “Tycho”
  • Substrings: “Tycho” also matches “Tycho Website” or “Tycho Q1 Launch”
  • Case-insensitive: “tycho”, “Tycho”, and “TYCHO” all match
Project names must match your actual Asana project names. If a project isn’t recognized, its tasks will appear at the end of the list in alphabetical order.

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Customizing Your Schedule

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Add a New Day Configuration

Edit config/asana_order.yaml to add or modify days: 
Saturday:
  - Personal
  - Side Projects
  - Learning
Sunday:
  - Planning
  - Personal

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Change Client Days

Rearrange which clients have focus on which days: 
Monday:
  - ClientA      # Changed priority
  - ClientB
  - Internal
Tuesday:
  - ClientC      # Different client Tuesday
  - Internal

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Add Non-Client Categories

Include internal work categories: 
Thursday:
  - SOPs                    # Standard Operating Procedures
  - Documentation
  - Team Meetings
  - Management

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Integration with Morning Routine

The asana_lite script automatically applies this ordering when fetching tasks for the morning routine. When the morning agent shows your task list, it:
  1. Reads today’s priority order from the YAML
  2. Fetches all due/incomplete tasks from Asana
  3. Sorts them by project according to the day’s priority
  4. Presents them in the morning briefing

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No Configuration?

If config/asana_order.yaml doesn’t exist or today isn’t defined:
  • Tasks appear in default order (typically alphabetical by project)
  • All functionality still works, just without prioritization
  • Client Bitácoras - Client names should match between clients.yaml and asana_order.yaml
  • Demo Mode - Test task ordering with demo data

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