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Deep dive into creating a daily news report with RSS and AI

Manually gathering, summarizing, and formatting news from multiple sources for a daily report is a time-consuming task. This new automated workflow leverages the power of RSS and AI to transform that process, allowing you to generate a structured news brief, complete with individual story summaries and a podcast-ready title, in just a few minutes.

What's new

The PTS Daily News shortcut is a powerful new automation that handles the end-to-end creation of a daily news report. It aggregates articles from your favorite news sources using their RSS feeds, filters them to show only today's stories, and lets you curate the final list. The shortcut then uses the Use Model action with ChatGPT to intelligently summarize each article and generate an overarching title and description for the episode, saving the final output to a new note.

How to use this feature

  1. Open the PTS Daily News shortcut and customize the Get RSS Items actions with the URLs for your preferred news sources.
  2. Run the shortcut from the app or pin it to your Menu Bar for quick access.
  3. Select the articles you want to include from the prompts for each news source. The shortcut will process these in the background.
  4. Once complete, a new note is created in your notes app containing the AI-generated podcast title, description, formatted links, and individual story summaries.
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Key capabilities

  • Aggregate multiple sources: Pull news from any number of RSS feeds into a single, unified workflow.
  • Automated content curation: Automatically filter articles by publication date and manually select the top stories, giving you full editorial control over the final report.
  • AI-powered summarization: Generate a concise one-paragraph summary for each article, cutting out fluff while retaining key details like names, products, and software.
  • Generate podcast metadata: Automatically create a podcast-ready title and a 2-3 sentence episode description based on the headlines of your selected articles.
  • Structured output: Organizes all generated content—including a master title, description, formatted links, and individual summaries—into a single, clean note for easy reference and recording.

Tips for getting the most out of this feature

You can fully customize the AI prompts to match your desired tone and format. The default prompts are designed for a direct, news-style delivery, but you can edit the text in the Use Model actions to be more casual, detailed, or formatted differently. You can also change the final action to save the output to Apple Notes, copy it to the clipboard, or send it to another app.

Summary

The Daily News Report automation transforms a time-intensive research and writing task into a streamlined process that takes just minutes. By combining RSS for content aggregation and AI for summarization and metadata creation, you can consistently produce high-quality daily news briefings for podcasts or newsletters with minimal manual effort. This workflow demonstrates how powerful automations can be when integrated with AI to boost your content creation productivity.

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