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Turn this week's saved links into a newsletter draft in Notion

Every Friday, the links you collected in your sheet become a newsletter draft page in Notion, ready to edit.

Runs
Weekly
Apps
Google Sheets, Notion
AI
Yes, uses the built-in AI allowance
Access
Sheet edit; Notion insert

Send this to your assistant

Create a ClickRuntime automation: every Friday at 10, take this week's unused rows from my Links sheet, write a newsletter draft in my Notion Newsletter database and mark the rows as used.

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

Someone running a weekly industry newsletter collects interesting links all week in a Google Sheet, often with a quick note on why each matters. On Friday they still face an hour or two of turning a list of links into readable paragraphs before the newsletter can go out.

Drafting the newsletter from the sheet removes that step. The draft lands in Notion where you already edit and plan, written from your own notes, and the links you used are marked so they never appear twice.

What you get out of it

  • Friday starts with a draft

    Editing a draft takes a fraction of the time of writing one. That makes a weekly newsletter sustainable alongside a full-time job.

  • Your notes shape the writing

    The short note you add when saving a link guides how it is written up. The draft keeps your angle rather than a generic description.

  • No link used twice

    Rows are marked as used once they go into a draft. Next week's draft only includes what you saved since.

  • Drafts live where you edit

    Notion pages are easy to edit, comment on and share with a co-editor. Your newsletter archive builds up in the same database.

How it works

What happens, step by step

  1. Every Friday, ClickRuntime reads the rows in your Links sheet that have not been used yet.

  2. AI writes a newsletter draft from the links and your notes, grouped into short sections.

  3. The draft is saved as a new page in your Notion Newsletter database.

  4. The rows that went into the draft are marked as used in the sheet, so they are not included again.

Before it runs live

  • Connect your Google Sheets account and pick the spreadsheets it may use
  • Connect Notion and share the database you want it to use

What you get

RunsWeekly
Turn this week's saved links into a newsletter draft in Notiontoday, 9:00Succeeded
Notion · NewsletterNewsletter 2026-10-23: This week, Contoso's new returns policy, why Northwind moved to regional warehouses, and three tools for small shop owners.

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 Google Sheets and 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.
newsletter_drafts_in_notion_from_sheet_rows.pyexample
from datetime import date
from google.oauth2.credentials import Credentials
from googleapiclient.discovery import build
from clickruntime import on_trigger, credentials, http, ai

SHEET_ID, NOTION_DB = "your-spreadsheet-id", "your-database-id"

@on_trigger
def run(event):
    sheet = build("sheets", "v4", credentials=Credentials(credentials.connection("google", "work")), cache_discovery=False).spreadsheets().values()
    rows = sheet.get(spreadsheetId=SHEET_ID, range="Links!A2:D").execute().get("values", [])
    fresh = [(i + 2, r) for i, r in enumerate(rows) if len(r) >= 2 and (len(r) < 4 or r[3] != "used")]
    if not fresh:
        return {"items": 0}
    items = "\n".join(f"- {r[1]} ({r[0]}): {r[2] if len(r) > 2 else ''}" for _, r in fresh)
    draft = ai.generate(f"Write a weekly newsletter draft with an intro and short sections from these links and notes:\n{items}", max_output_tokens=1800).text
    http.post("https://api.notion.com/v1/pages", headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {credentials.connection('notion', 'work')}", "Notion-Version": "2022-06-28"},
              json={"parent": {"database_id": NOTION_DB}, "properties": {"Name": {"title": [{"text": {"content": f"Newsletter {date.today()}"}}]}},
                    "children": [{"paragraph": {"rich_text": [{"text": {"content": p[:1900]}}]}} for p in draft.split("\n\n") if p.strip()]})
    sheet.batchUpdate(spreadsheetId=SHEET_ID, body={"valueInputOption": "RAW",
                      "data": [{"range": f"Links!D{n}", "values": [["used"]]} for n, _ in fresh]}).execute()
    return {"items": len(fresh)}

FAQ

Common questions

What should each row in the sheet contain?
The link, a title and a short note on why it is interesting. A category column is optional and lets the draft group items into sections.
Does it send the newsletter?
No. It writes a draft for you to edit and send with your usual newsletter tool. Nothing reaches subscribers without you.
Can I change the newsletter's format?
Yes. Describe the structure you want, such as an intro, three sections and a closing line, and each week's draft follows it.
What permissions does it need?
Sheet edit; Notion insert. 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 (weekly). 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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