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Save a daily research digest to Notion

Each morning new articles from the feeds you follow are summarised, tagged and filed as pages in Notion.

Runs
Daily
Apps
Notion
AI
Yes, uses the built-in AI allowance
Access
read+write

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Create a ClickRuntime automation: every morning at 7am, check these RSS feeds for new articles, summarise each one in three lines, tag its topic, and add it as a page to my Notion Reading database.

Paste it into your assistant. It tells you what it will send or change before it runs live.

First time? Adding ClickRuntime to your assistant takes about two minutes.

Why use it

Why teams use this automation

Staying current in a field such as machine learning, climate policy or fintech regulation means following dozens of sources: arXiv listings, lab blogs, newsletters, regulator announcements. A researcher or analyst who tries to keep up by hand spends an hour a day reading headlines, bookmarks a few links in a browser that never get opened again, and still cannot answer the question of what was published on a topic in the last quarter.

Every day ClickRuntime fetches your feeds, skips links it has recorded before, and uses its built-in AI to write a short summary and a set of tags for each new item. It then creates one page per item in a Notion database, with the title, link, summary, tags and date, so your reading list is organised and searchable from the first day.

It is a good fit for an individual who wants a personal research library without any tool beyond Notion.

What you get out of it

  • A research library that fills itself

    New items appear as pages each morning, already summarised and tagged. After three months you hold a structured archive of the field instead of a pile of forgotten bookmarks. Nothing needs to be exported, so the database simply grows while you do other work.

  • Skimming takes minutes, not an hour

    Reading two-line summaries to decide what deserves a full read compresses the daily routine. The time saved goes into reading the five papers that actually matter. The saved time goes into the few papers and posts that deserve a full read.

  • Questions about the past get answers

    Filtering the database by tag and date lets you list everything published on a topic last quarter. A literature review or a briefing note starts with material already collected. A literature review or briefing note then starts from material that is already collected.

  • Your own tags build up a taxonomy

    Because the AI applies tags consistently, you can see which topics are growing in the feed. That guides what to study next and where to look for gaps. That guides what to study next and where the gaps are in your coverage.

  • Stored links prevent re-reading

    A paper that three newsletters mention is filed once. You never spend time on something you have already read and summarised in Notion last week. You never spend time on something that is already summarised in Notion from last week.

How it works

What happens, step by step

  1. Every day ClickRuntime reads the news feeds you follow.

  2. It skips articles it has already saved.

  3. AI writes a short summary of each new article and gives it a topic tag.

  4. Each article is saved as its own page in your Notion reading database.

Before it runs live

  • Connect Notion and share the database you want it to use

What you get

RunsDaily
Save a daily research digest to Notiontoday, 9:00Succeeded
Notion · ReadingAcme raises Series B to expand into Europe | Topic: Funding Acme will open offices in Berlin and Lisbon and hire 80 people…

Build your own

Need it to work differently?

This template is a starting point. Copy the prompt and change it, or describe a different automation from scratch, with your own conditions, more apps or an AI step. Your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.
  • Your own rules

    Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.

  • Any number of apps

    One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.

  • AI where it helps

    Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.

  • On a schedule or on each event

    Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.

Changes you can ask for

  • Run it at a different time, more or less often, or only on weekdays
  • Change what the AI looks for, or how it writes the result
  • Add another app, for example also send it to Slack
  • Combine it with other Notion steps into one automation

Under the hood

The code that runs this automation

This is the Python script that runs each time the automation starts. Your AI assistant writes it for you when you send the prompt, and you allow each step in your assistant. To change how the automation works, describe the change to your assistant and it updates the script for you. For every function it can use, see the script reference.
ai_news_research_digest_saved_to_notion.pyexample
import feedparser
from clickruntime import on_trigger, credentials, http, state, ai

NOTION = "https://api.notion.com/v1"

def headers():
    return {"Authorization": f"Bearer {credentials.secret('NOTION_TOKEN')}", "Notion-Version": "2022-06-28"}

def query(db, body=None):
    resp = http.post(f"{NOTION}/databases/{db}/query", headers=headers(), json=body or {})
    resp.raise_for_status()
    return resp.json()["results"]

def title(page, prop="Name"):
    return "".join(t["plain_text"] for t in page["properties"][prop]["title"])

READING = "reading-database-id"
FEEDS = ["https://blog.example.com/feed", "https://news.example.org/rss"]
SCHEMA = {"type": "object", "properties": {"summary": {"type": "string"}, "topic": {"type": "string"}},
          "required": ["summary", "topic"]}

@on_trigger
def run(event):
    seen = set(state.get("seen") or [])
    new = [e for url in FEEDS for e in feedparser.parse(url).entries[:20] if e.link not in seen]
    for e in new[:20]:
        d = ai.generate(f"Summarise in three lines and give a one-word topic:\n{e.title}\n{e.get('summary', '')[:2000]}",
                        json_schema=SCHEMA, max_output_tokens=200).json
        http.post(f"{NOTION}/pages", headers=headers(), json={"parent": {"database_id": READING}, "properties": {
            "Name": {"title": [{"text": {"content": e.title[:200]}}]},
            "URL": {"url": e.link},
            "Summary": {"rich_text": [{"text": {"content": d["summary"]}}]},
            "Topic": {"select": {"name": d["topic"]}},
        }}).raise_for_status()
        seen.add(e.link)
    state.set("seen", sorted(seen)[-2000:])
    return {"added": min(len(new), 20)}

FAQ

Common questions

Can I add sources later?
Yes. Sources are a simple list, so adding another arXiv category or blog feed is a small change that you review before it takes effect. Existing pages in Notion are left untouched. Sources can be removed the same way.
What Notion properties does it fill?
Title, URL, Summary, Tags and Date by default, matched by property name. If your database uses other names, say so when setting it up and the mapping can follow them. Extra properties can be filled when the names match.
How accurate are the summaries?
They are written by ClickRuntime's built-in AI from the text it fetched, so they are a guide for triage, not a replacement for reading. Each page keeps the original link so you can verify any claim in the source.
What permissions does it need?
read+write. Nothing else in your accounts is used.
Does it need AI?
Yes. It uses ClickRuntime's built-in AI, so you don't need an OpenAI or Anthropic key. Every plan includes a monthly AI allowance.
How many runs does it use?
One run each time it runs (daily). Checks that find nothing to do and stop right away aren't counted.
Can I change how it works?
Yes. Describe the change to your AI assistant, for example a different schedule, channel or filter. It updates the automation, tests it and tells you what changed.

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