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# Obituary Formatter

*Beginner · Starter kit · Local News*

Turns funeral home notices from your inbox into obituaries in your paper's style for an editor to check.

### What it does

- Finds new funeral home notices in your mail.

- Rewrites each one in your house style without changing names, dates or service details.

- Saves the drafts in a Drive folder and lists anything unclear.

### 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 Obituary Formatter. What you do: Turns funeral home notices from your inbox into obituaries in your paper's style for an editor to check.

Each run:
1. Finds new funeral home notices in your mail.
2. Rewrites each one in your house style without changing names, dates or service details.
3. Saves the drafts in a Drive folder and lists anything unclear.

Schedule: Daily 10 a.m.
Apps: Gmail, Google Drive.
Rules: Drafts only. Never publishes or changes a family's wording without your OK. 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.