On a schedule
Text a daily tip or question from a sheet
Each morning your subscribers get one tip or question from your sheet by text, and it's marked as used so it isn't repeated.
- Runs
- On a schedule
- Apps
- Google Sheets, Twilio
- AI
- Not needed
- Access
- Sheets edit; Twilio send
Send this to your assistant
Create a ClickRuntime automation: every day at 6am, pick an unused tip from my Tips sheet, text it to everyone on my Subscribers tab, and mark the tip as used.
First time? Adding ClickRuntime to your assistant takes about two minutes.
Why use it
Why teams use this automation
Coaches, teachers and community groups keep people engaged with a daily nudge: a vocabulary word, a training tip, a reflection question. Texts get read, but sending one every morning by hand is a chore that soon lapses.
Writing the tips once in a sheet and letting one go out each morning keeps the habit going for months, with no repeats and no one having to remember.
What you get out of it
A daily habit that keeps going
Tips go out every morning without anyone pressing send.
No repeats
Each tip is marked used once sent.
Easy to add content
New tips are new rows in the sheet.
Texts get read
SMS reaches people who don't use apps or check email.
How it works
What happens, step by step
Every morning it picks a random tip from your sheet that hasn't been used yet.
The tip is texted to every number on your Subscribers tab.
The tip is marked used so it isn't sent again.
If no tips are left, you get an email reminder instead.
Before it runs live
- Connect your Google Sheets account and pick the spreadsheets it may use
- Connect Twilio
What you get
Build your own
Need it to work differently?
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
- Add an AI step, for example to summarize, sort or draft a reply
- Add another app, for example also send it to Slack
- Combine it with other Google Sheets and Twilio steps into one automation
Under the hood
The code that runs this automation
from google.oauth2.credentials import Credentials
from googleapiclient.discovery import build
from twilio.rest import Client
import random
from datetime import date
from clickruntime import on_trigger, credentials, http, notify
SHEET_ID = "your-spreadsheet-id"
FROM = "+15005550006"
def sms(to, body):
return Client(credentials.secret("TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID"), credentials.secret("TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN")).messages.create(to=to, from_=FROM, body=body)
sheets = lambda: build("sheets", "v4", credentials=Credentials(credentials.connection("google", "work")), cache_discovery=False).spreadsheets().values()
@on_trigger
def run(event):
tips = sheets().get(spreadsheetId=SHEET_ID, range="Tips!A2:B").execute().get("values", [])
unused = [(i, r[0]) for i, r in enumerate(tips, start=2) if r and len(r) < 2]
if not unused:
notify.email_me("Daily tips: none left", "Add more rows to the Tips sheet.")
return {"sent": 0}
row, tip = random.choice(unused)
numbers = [r[0] for r in sheets().get(spreadsheetId=SHEET_ID, range="Subscribers!A2:A").execute().get("values", []) if r]
for n in numbers:
sms(n, tip)
sheets().update(spreadsheetId=SHEET_ID, range=f"Tips!B{row}", valueInputOption="RAW", body={"values": [[date.today().isoformat()]]}).execute()
return {"sent": len(numbers)}FAQ
Common questions
Where do subscribers come from?
What happens when all tips are used?
How do people unsubscribe?
What permissions does it need?
Does it need AI?
How many runs does it use?
Can I change how it works?
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