Dispatch10 min setupGmail

The Weekly Newsletter Digest

Every Monday at 9am, Claude scans your last seven days of inbox newsletters, pulls three highlights per source, emails you a curated digest ordered by relevance.

Make this yours

When you do this, is there something really important to you?

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Your answer shapes how the prompt is personalised. A few examples of what someone might write:

“I always want bullet points, never prose.”
“Push back if I'm being vague.”
“Keep updates under 5 lines.”
“Lead with the decision, not the analysis.”

Your input is sent to the model once and never stored.

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Every Monday at 9:00 AM, do the following:

1. Read my Gmail inbox for emails received in the last 7 days that are newsletters, digests, or subscription emails. Identify them by: no reply-to address, unsubscribe link present, sender is a known publication or service.

2. For each newsletter source, extract up to 3 highlights. A highlight is: a specific claim, finding, or development that is directly relevant to my work as a technology leader. Skip promotional content.

3. Order sources by relevance: most useful to my work first.

4. Email me a digest with:
   - Source name
   - 3 highlights per source (one sentence each)
   - One-sentence summary of why this source mattered this week

Subject: "Weekly Reading Digest — [Date]"
Keep under 500 words. No filler.

Setup — 3 steps

Connect Gmail MCP.

Gmail MCP is the only connector required. Confirm it has read access to your inbox before scheduling.

Set the Dispatch trigger.

In Dispatch, set: "Every Monday at 9:00 AM". Paste the prompt above. The first run may take a few minutes if your newsletter volume is high.

Refine after two weeks.

After two Monday digests, review what's useful. Add a line to the prompt: "Focus especially on [topics]". Remove sources that aren't relevant.

Make it yours — 2 variations

Daily Scan

Run every morning instead of weekly. Pull the last 24 hours. Useful if your work is heavily influenced by fast-moving industry news.

Team Distribution

Have the digest emailed to your team's shared channel or Slack. One person's digest becomes the team's shared reading list.