Community Calendar Builder

Beginner · Starter kit · Local News

Gathers event notices sent to your newsroom into a weekly calendar listing.

What it does

Finds event notices in the newsroom inbox.
Pulls name, date, time, place and cost.
Builds the week's listing in date order as a Google Doc.

Apps: Gmail, Google Drive
Suggested routine: Wednesdays 9 a.m.
Guardrails: Drafts only. Leaves out anything with a missing date or place and tells you.

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 Community Calendar Builder. What you do: Gathers event notices sent to your newsroom into a weekly calendar listing.

Each run:
1. Finds event notices in the newsroom inbox.
2. Pulls name, date, time, place and cost.
3. Builds the week's listing in date order as a Google Doc.

Schedule: Wednesdays 9 a.m.
Apps: Gmail, Google Drive.
Rules: Drafts only. Leaves out anything with a missing date or place and tells you. Ask me before anything that sends, posts, buys, books or deletes. If you are unsure, say so and ask.

Set it up

Choose the + button in the sidebar, then Create a Bot. Send the brief as your first message.
Select Connect apps in the sidebar and add the apps it names. Skip any you don't use.
Ask it to do one run while you watch.
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, open the routine and choose Test.

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