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A daily AI-written digest of your news feeds

Pull articles from any set of RSS feeds each morning, have a model summarise them into a short readable brief, and deliver it to your inbox.

30 minIntermediate15 steps
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A daily AI-written digest of your news feeds

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01 / 15Schedule Trigger

Create the workflow and add a Schedule Trigger

Start a new workflow, name it, and add a Schedule Trigger as the first node.

Checkpoint

A Schedule Trigger sits alone on the canvas.

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Before you begin

Tick these off as you sort them. Stopping halfway to create an account is how a fifteen-minute build becomes an hour.

0 of 7 ready

Ticks are saved on this device, so you can come back to them.

  • Have ready

    Most news sites and blogs still publish one. Collect the URLs before you start and open each in a browser to confirm it returns XML rather than a 404.

  • API key

    You need a key with billing enabled. Summarising twenty articles a day is inexpensive, but it is not free, and a key with no payment method will fail on the first call.

    Where keys live
  • Account

    Gmail is used here, but any email node works the same way. You only need the final node swapped.

  • Know-how

    This one assumes you already know how to add a node, connect a credential and pin data. Work through a beginner walkthrough first if any of that is unfamiliar.

The basics — ticked once, remembered everywhere

  • Account

    Either the hosted version or a self-hosted install. Everything here works the same on both — the only visible difference is the shape of your webhook URLs.

    Create a workspace
  • Know-how

    Adding a node, connecting two of them, and pressing Execute. If any of that is new, the free primer covers it in about ten minutes.

  • Credential

    You will paste at least one secret during setup. A password manager beats a notes app, and it stops you pasting a live key into a chat window by accident.

The shape of the workflow

The nodes you will end up with, left to right, in the order you add them.

Schedule TriggerRSS ReadMergeFilterCodeOpenAIGmail
The finished A daily AI-written digest of your news feeds workflow on the n8n canvas4 things to set here
  1. 1Schedule Trigger — the trigger — everything starts here
  2. 2Schedule Trigger — Set the schedule
  3. 3RSS Read — Add your first RSS feed
  4. 4RSS Read — Add the remaining feeds in parallel
The finished workflow on the n8n canvasTap to enlarge

Skip the node hunting

Import a starter file with every node for this build already on the canvas, named after its step and wired in order, each one carrying a sticky note with the values to enter. You still connect your own accounts and fill the fields — that is what the walkthrough takes you through — but you never start at a blank canvas.

In n8n: Workflows → Import from file.

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What you will build

Jump straight to any step, or print the list and tick it off beside your n8n tab.

  1. 1Create the workflow and add a Schedule Trigger
  2. 2Set the schedule
  3. 3Add your first RSS feed
  4. 4Add the remaining feeds in parallel
  5. 5Merge the feeds into one list
  6. 6Filter down to the last 24 hours
  7. 7Collapse the articles into a single block of text
  8. 8Add the model node and its credential
  9. 9Write the prompt
  10. 10Email the digest to yourself
  11. 11Add a failure notification
  12. 12Set the real schedule and activate
  13. 13Run the whole workflow manually
  14. 14Read the digest critically
  15. 15Test the empty case

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