Send a daily email digest of new articles from your RSS feeds

Every morning, the system checks your RSS feeds and emails you only the articles published in the last day.

How the work actually flows

It branches. Exactly one path is taken; runs once per each rss feed.

Pattern: Exclusive Choice (4) · Multiple Instances with a priori Run-Time Knowledge (14)

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Starts itA stepRuns once per itemA record or sheetOne path onlyResultPayoff
Build size
Advanced

A larger build with multiple systems, AI reasoning, and custom rules.

Business functions
Email AutomationSpreadsheet & Database OpsResearch & Market Intelligence
Connects
Google SheetsGmail

The problem it solves

Keeping up with industry news means checking a dozen different websites or feeds by hand, and it's easy to miss something important or waste time re-reading old articles. You want one clean summary instead of a dozen open tabs.

Who it fits

Anyone who tracks industry news or competitor blogs and wants a single daily roundup.

How it works

  1. Every morning at 6am the system starts its run
  2. It reads the list of RSS feeds from a Google Sheet
  3. It pulls each feed and keeps only articles from the last 24 hours
  4. It builds a formatted summary with titles, dates, and excerpts
  5. It emails you the digest, or skips sending if there is nothing new
What you get

Headlines you read once instead of ten feeds

You get one daily email with only the new articles from your tracked feeds, so nothing important slips by.

What you get

A daily email with links and summaries of every new article from your tracked feeds.

What you need

A Google Workspace account for Sheets and Gmail.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

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