📰 news recipe
Personalized News Scanner AI Routine for Mac
Stay informed with a curated summary of news relevant to your interests.
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.
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.
Schedule
Every day at 7:00 AM
cron: 0 7 * * *
Intelligence
Fast 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 News Scanner recipe
Choose News Scanner from the library, or paste the example prompt into a new routine.
Step 03
Tell it your topics
Edit the prompt to name the subjects, industries, or companies you want covered.
Step 04
Set the schedule
Keep the default 7:00 AM daily so the roundup is ready before you start.
Sample output
What a run looks like.
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.
Saved to your local output history · never uploaded
FAQ
Questions about this recipe.
Does the News Scanner need any connectors?
No. It runs without any accounts connected. It only needs your AI key or ChatGPT sign-in, configured once in the app.
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?
No. The routine runs on your Mac and writes results to local output history. 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.
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