Newsletter Automation: Curate and Send Weekly Digests
Your OpenClaw agent gathers the best content from your industry each week, writes engaging summaries, and delivers a formatted newsletter draft you can send with one click.
What You Will Get
After completing this walkthrough, your agent will curate a weekly digest newsletter for you. It browses your preferred sources, selects the most relevant articles and updates, writes concise summaries for each, and formats everything into a newsletter layout you can paste into your email service.
Consistency is the biggest challenge with newsletters. Most people start strong and then miss weeks because curation takes too long. Your agent eliminates that bottleneck by doing the heavy reading and summarizing, so all you need to do is review and hit send.
The result is a professional newsletter that keeps your audience informed and positions you as a go-to source in your niche. Over time, you can refine the curation criteria and formatting to match exactly what your subscribers want.
How to Set Up Newsletter Automation
Build your digest workflow step by step
List Your Content Sources
Give your agent a list of websites, blogs, RSS feeds, subreddits, or social accounts you want it to monitor. Be specific about the topics you care about. For example: 'Monitor TechCrunch AI section, Hacker News front page, and the r/machinelearning subreddit for articles about LLM applications.'
Set Your Curation Criteria
Tell your agent what makes a piece of content worth including. This could be recency (published in the last 7 days), relevance (directly related to your niche), engagement (high comment counts), or novelty (covering something your audience has not seen). Clear criteria prevent your digest from becoming a random link dump.
Ask Your Agent to Browse and Curate
Instruct your agent to visit your sources and compile a shortlist of 5 to 10 items. For each item, it provides the title, source, a two-sentence summary, and why it is relevant to your audience. Review the shortlist and remove anything that does not fit.
Write the Newsletter Copy
Ask your agent to write the full newsletter using the approved shortlist. It should include a brief intro paragraph, each curated item with its summary and link, and a closing section with a call to action. Specify your brand voice and formatting preferences such as numbered lists or section headers.
Format for Your Email Service
Tell your agent which email platform you use and ask it to format the newsletter accordingly. It can produce clean HTML, plain text, or structured markdown that your platform accepts. If you have a template, share it so the agent matches your existing layout exactly.
Review, Approve, and Send
Read through the finished newsletter in your email tool's preview mode. Ask your agent to fix any last-minute wording or add a personal note at the top. Once everything looks right, schedule or send the email. Save the conversation so your agent remembers your preferences for next week.
Tips and Best Practices
Add a Personal Commentary Section
Newsletters that include your own perspective perform better than pure link roundups. Ask your agent to leave a placeholder for your commentary, or dictate a few thoughts and have the agent polish them into a short paragraph.
Track Open Rates and Adjust
After a few weeks, share your open rate and click-through data with your agent. It can identify which types of content get the most engagement and adjust future curation to prioritize those topics.
Create a Subscriber Segment Strategy
If your list has different audience segments, ask your agent to produce two versions of the digest: one for beginners and one for advanced readers. Tailored content drives higher engagement and lower unsubscribe rates.
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