📰 News & Reading recipe
Daily News Summary AI Routine for Mac
Your daily news summary, written before you ask for it: the topics you follow, scanned each morning and reduced to what matters.
The exact prompt
Paste this into a new routine.
Scan the news from the last day and give me a tight roundup on the topics I follow: AI, startups, and macOS. For each story, give me a one-line headline, two sentences of context, and why it matters to me. Skip anything I would scroll past. End with one thing worth reading in full.
Every day at 7:00 AM · Fast tier
None needed, runs out of the box.
Set the schedule. Keep the default 7:00 AM daily so the roundup is ready before you start. cron: 0 7 * * *
Set it up
Step 02Pick the News Scanner recipe
Choose News Scanner from the library, or paste the example prompt into a new routine.
Step 03Tell it your topics
Edit the prompt to name the subjects, industries, or companies you want covered.
Sample output
What a run looks like.
Saved to your local output history · stays on your Mac
Your news · June 12
Done
AI: a new on-device model family shipped, runs on Apple silicon.
Startups: two seed rounds in your space, both productivity tools.
Worth a full read: the piece on local-first software.
- Who it's for
- Curious professionals who want the day's relevant headlines distilled instead of doomscrolling a dozen sites.
- What lands in your morning
- A short morning roundup of just the news on the topics you care about, summarized in plain language with why each story matters.
FAQ
Questions about this recipe.
Does the News Scanner need any connectors?
No. It runs without any accounts connected. It only needs AI, set up once: Routines AI with your account, or your own key or ChatGPT sign-in.
How does it know what news I care about?
From the prompt. You name the topics, industries, and companies, and the routine focuses there. Update the prompt anytime to shift coverage.
Is my reading list shared with anyone?
The routine runs on your Mac and writes results to local output history. The stories go to the AI to be summarized, through Routines AI or your own key, and your interests never become a profile in someone else's cloud.
Can I run it more than once a day?
Yes. Change the schedule to twice daily or hourly if you want a steadier news feed.
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Run News Scanner on your Mac.
Install Routines, paste the prompt, set the schedule. It runs locally and the output stays on your machine.
Step 01 · Install Routines. Download the DMG, drag to Applications, and sign in with Google once.