📚 education recipe
Daily Learning Digest AI Routine for Mac
Fuel your growth with curated articles, courses, and resources on topics you want to master.
Who it's for
Lifelong learners who want a steady drip of high-quality material on a skill they're building, picked for them.
What lands in your morning
A morning digest of articles, courses, and resources on the topics you're learning, each with why it's worth your time and how long it'll take.
The exact prompt
Paste this into a new routine.
Curate a learning digest for me on the topics I'm studying: system design and Rust. Find a mix of articles, tutorials, and courses, and for each give me the title, the source, an estimated time to consume, and one sentence on what I'll get from it. Order it as a sensible learning path from foundational to advanced.
Schedule
Every day at 8:00 AM
cron: 0 8 * * *
Intelligence
Balanced tier
Set per routine to control spend.
Required connectors
None needed, runs out of the box.
Set it up
Running in under a minute.
Step 01
Install Routines
Download the DMG, drag to Applications, and sign in with Google once.
Step 02
Pick the Learning Digest recipe
Choose Learning Digest from the library, or paste the example prompt into a new routine.
Step 03
Choose your topics
Edit the prompt to name the skills and subjects you want to grow in.
Step 04
Set the schedule
Keep the default 8:00 AM daily so each day starts with one thing to learn.
Sample output
What a run looks like.
Learning digest · 8:00 AM
Done- Start here: a 15-min primer on system-design tradeoffs.
- Build on it: a Rust ownership tutorial, ~30 min.
- Go deep: a course module on distributed systems.
Saved to your local output history · never uploaded
FAQ
Questions about this recipe.
Does the Learning Digest need connectors?
No accounts are required. It runs from your prompt and saves the digest to your local output history.
Can it remember what I've already learned?
Yes. Routines can read your local memory, so the digest can build on what you've covered instead of repeating it.
How do I change the subjects over time?
Edit the prompt whenever your focus shifts. The next run reflects the new topics.
Is my learning data private?
Yes. It runs on your Mac and writes results locally. Your study topics never leave your machine.
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Run Learning Digest on your Mac.
Install Routines, paste the prompt, set the schedule. It runs locally and the output stays on your machine.
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