Weekly
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
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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.
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
Every Friday, ClickRuntime reads the rows in your Links sheet that have not been used yet.
AI writes a newsletter draft from the links and your notes, grouped into short sections.
The draft is saved as a new page in your Notion Newsletter database.
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
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
- 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
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?
Does it send the newsletter?
Can I change the newsletter's format?
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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