The morning-loop problem nobody talks about
You open the laptop. Sidebar has eight chat sessions from yesterday. Which one was the auth refactor? Did the migration finish or did you park it half-done? Was there a test failure you said you'd come back to? You click into three sessions, scroll the bottom of each, finally remember — and ten minutes are gone before you've written a single line.
This loop happens every single day to anyone using AI coding tools on more than one project. There's an open issue on the official Claude Code repo asking for exactly this kind of cross-project daily report. Nobody has shipped it. The CLI tools that exist are session-by-session — they tell you about *one* conversation but never stitch the whole picture together.
Daily Briefing in Onevium 1.1.6 is that page. Open it in the morning, get one screen that summarizes everything you did yesterday across every project, what's still open, and a one-click button to jump back into the right session. No more sidebar-archaeology.
What's on the page
The layout borrows the standup format because it travels well — three sections, ordered by what you actually need to act on:
- Pick up where you left off — the hero block at the top. Sessions that have unfinished tasks, uncommitted changes, or an assistant message still waiting for your reply. Each one shows a two-line summary plus a Continue button that resumes the right session in the right project. This is the part you'll actually use every day.
- Yesterday's takeaways — decisions you made, things you learned, what actually shipped (commits, completed tasks, session summaries). Folded by default so the page doesn't get noisy; expand when you want a recap.
- Needs your attention — scheduled tasks that failed, sessions where the AI asked a question you never answered, open commitments you made and haven't followed through on.
- A 'For you' card — a short AI-generated paragraph on patterns from your own messages. Things like "you context-switched between three projects yesterday — worth batching?" or "you asked twice about Next.js standalone — might be worth pinning a memory." Constructive only, never judgey. This is the part you won't find in any other tool.
- A one-line metrics strip — projects touched, sessions, messages, tokens, actual cost. Click "usage details" to jump to the existing Activity page if you want to dig into the numbers; the briefing itself stays brief.
Roughly how it works
The factual blocks (resume list, completed tasks, failed schedules, metrics) are pure database queries — no AI involved, instant to render. The two AI-written parts (the narrative and the 'For you' insight) use a single cheap model call per day to weave everything together, plus one short summary per session that actually had activity. Total cost is usually a fraction of a cent per day.
Sessions get summarized lazily: a one-line recap per session, regenerated only when that session has new activity since the last summary. So a long conversation you barely touched yesterday doesn't get re-processed every morning — only the sessions that actually changed.
The whole briefing is regenerable any time — hit the refresh button in the top right if you finished something after the briefing was generated and want it reflected immediately.
Where to find it and how to configure it
There's a new Daily Briefing entry in the sidebar, right under Schedules. Click it, you're there. It generates automatically once a day at the time you set; opening the page also generates on demand if nothing's cached for today.
- Toggle on/off — open the briefing page, click the gear icon in the top right. The toggle is on by default; turn it off and the page disappears from the sidebar.
- Generation time — same gear popover. Pick when the briefing auto-generates each day (default early morning, local time).
- Briefing model — same popover. Defaults to Haiku for the cheap, fast option; switch to Sonnet for slightly richer summaries if you're a heavy user.
- Memory dependency is optional — if you've turned off Memory, the briefing still works. You just lose two blocks: "Decisions made" and "Open commitments" (both pulled from memory). The resume list, metrics, completed work, failed schedules, and the 'For you' insight all still show up. The two systems share data but not switches.
Worth opening if…
If you work across more than one project, use AI for actual feature work rather than one-off completions, or have ever had a sticky-note workflow for "things I need to come back to," the briefing replaces that ritual with a page that updates itself. Most users will hit the Continue button on the hero block within ten seconds of opening the app.
If you mostly use one project at a time and your sessions are short and self-contained, you probably don't need it — turn it off in the gear popover and the sidebar entry disappears.
Daily Briefing ships in Onevium 1.1.6, opt-out, with its own model budget that doesn't touch your chat model selection. If you've been using the `/handoff` and `/resume` skills to manually bridge sessions, this is the automatic, cross-project, every-morning version of that same workflow.