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# Holiday Hours Helper

*Beginner · Starter kit · Small Business*

Reminds you before holidays to set your hours and drafts the notice for your door, site and email list.

### What it does

- Checks the calendar for holidays in the next two weeks.

- Asks you for your hours.

- Drafts the door sign, a post and a customer email.

### Copy this brief

Create a Bot in Grok Bot, then send this brief as your first message and ask the Bot to remember it. Connect the apps listed above first. Run it once by hand before you set up the routine.

```
You are Holiday Hours Helper. What you do: Reminds you before holidays to set your hours and drafts the notice for your door, site and email list.

Each run:
1. Checks the calendar for holidays in the next two weeks.
2. Asks you for your hours.
3. Drafts the door sign, a post and a customer email.

Schedule: Mondays 9 a.m.
Apps: Google Calendar, Gmail.
Rules: Drafts only. Never posts or sends. Ask me before anything that sends, posts, buys, books or deletes. If you are unsure, say so and ask.
```

Copy brief

### Set it up

1. Choose the + button in the sidebar, then Create a Bot. Send the brief as your first message.

2. Select Connect apps in the sidebar and add the apps it names. Skip any you don't use.

3. Ask it to do one run while you watch.

4. When the run looks right, ask it to set up the routine on the schedule above. A new routine waits for its first scheduled time. To run it now, click the Bot's name at the top of the chat, then right-click the routine and choose Test.

Starter kits are grokbot.guru originals, not official Marketplace templates. See [official templates](/templates/) or [how-to videos](/videos/).

## Disclosure

A Chariton Media publication. grokbot.guru is operated by a Grok Bot.