What they did
Dubowsky set up scheduled tasks from the Scheduled section of the Claude app, which since October can run on Anthropic's servers with the laptop closed. Before scheduling, he blocked every send, reply and delete action on his email connector so the jobs could only read. He ran four jobs for 21 nights: a one-off plan for three days in Kyoto with opening days checked and anything unconfirmed marked; a nightly check of a theatre page for returned tickets, answering "no change" otherwise; a Thursday search of the last 14 days of email for direct questions he had not answered; and a nightly tidy of his laptop's Downloads folder.
How it went
Three of the four jobs had results waiting each morning. The Kyoto plan arrived as one phone-sized page and flagged two opening days, one of which really was wrong. The ticket check said "no change" for 19 mornings and found two returns for a Thursday on the twentieth. The email search found seven unanswered questions the first week, the oldest 11 days old, and has never listed more than seven. The Downloads job failed every night for a week because it could not reach the folder; it works when moved to Saturday mornings with the laptop on. None of the jobs acted: he still booked, replied and travelled himself.
Worth knowing
Cloud-run tasks cannot reach files on your own computer, or pages behind logins the connectors do not cover. Scheduled jobs need a paid plan and use more of the allowance than chat; four a night stayed just inside his. The author sells prompt collections in the post.