AI Newsletter Curator: your weekly industry digest, researched and drafted while you sleep
An n8n workflow that collects every article from your chosen RSS feeds all week, has Claude pick the 5 most important for your audience and write a short take on each, then drops a ready-to-send newsletter draft into your Gmail drafts every Friday morning.
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Collect all week
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RSS Feed Triggerper source (start with 5–10 feeds) appends every new article — title, URL, summary — to a Google Sheet. This runs quietly all week; nothing else happens until Friday. - 2
Curate Friday at dawn
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Schedule Trigger(Friday 06:30) reads the week's rows from the sheet. ACodenode dedupes near-identical stories (same event covered by three blogs) by URL domain and title similarity before anything reaches Claude. - 3
Claude picks 5 and writes takes
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HTTP Requestto Claude: here are ~60 articles with summaries, here's who my readers are, pick the 5 that matter most to them, and for each write a 2-sentence 'why this matters' in my voice (you paste two past issues into the prompt as style reference). Ask for the output already formatted as your newsletter skeleton. - 4
Draft into Gmail, clear the sheet
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Gmailnode (operation: Create Draft) with the formatted digest, then aGoogle Sheetsclear so next week starts fresh. Friday morning: open drafts, edit ten minutes, ship.
Frequently asked questions
Why a Gmail draft instead of sending automatically?
Because your newsletter is your reputation. The draft lands in your normal Gmail drafts folder Friday at 7:00; you read it over coffee, cut one item, sharpen one take, and send from your ESP as usual. Ten minutes of your judgment on top of an hour of automated research is the right division of labor.
How does Claude know what my audience cares about?
You describe them once in the prompt — the workflow ships with a placeholder like 'e-commerce founders doing $10k–100k/mo who care about practical tactics, not funding news'. The tighter you write this line, the better the curation. Update it as your audience evolves.
Can it pull from newsletters I'm subscribed to, not just RSS?
Yes — add a Gmail trigger watching a label like 'newsletters' and merge those into the same weekly pool. Kill Two birds: your inbox stays clean and your competitors' newsletters become your raw material.