Overview
Juggling scattered to-dos and news feeds wastes time and clouds priorities. This automation merges your Todoist tasks and RSS headlines into a clean, daily HTML email, delivered straight to your inbox via Gmail. It strips away manual info gathering so you can focus on what matters first thing every day.
The Impact
- Consolidate Effortlessly. Pulls tasks and news into one digest, eliminating manual checks.
- Save Time. Automates fetching, formatting, and sending without user intervention.
- Stay Informed. Delivers top headlines alongside your to-dos for a complete briefing.
- Boost Execution. Enables quick prioritization by presenting clear daily action items.
Who This Is For
- Product Managers who need a morning snapshot of tasks and industry news to plan their day.
- Team Leaders preparing weekly reports or meeting briefs from ongoing projects and news.
- Information Collectors looking to replace multiple RSS checks with a single, unified email.
- Busy Professionals wanting to streamline daily updates without toggling between apps.
How It Works
- Fetch Data
- Retrieve raw RSS XML from the provided feed URL and pull pending tasks from Todoist using authorized credentials.
- Parse and Extract
- Parse the RSS XML to extract top headlines and process Todoist tasks, limiting each to the first five items.
- Format Digest
- Generate an HTML email body combining tasks and news with clear styling and links, plus a subject line summarizing counts.
- Send Email
- Use configured Gmail credentials to send the formatted digest to the specified recipient email address.
- Complete
- Workflow ends after successful delivery, ready to run daily or as scheduled.
What You'll Need
Before using this template, make sure you have:
- Authorized Todoist account credentials to access and retrieve your pending tasks.
- Authorized Gmail account credentials to send emails on your behalf.
- A valid RSS feed URL from your preferred news source to fetch the latest headlines.
- An email address to receive the daily digest.
How to Use
- Step 1. Configure Credentials
- Step 2. Set Parameters
- Step 3. Run Workflow
- Step 4. Review Email
- Step 5. Verify Output
Set up Todoist and Gmail account credentials in the workflow to enable task retrieval and email sending.
Enter the recipient's email address and the RSS feed URL you want to pull news from.
Trigger the workflow manually or schedule it to run daily to fetch tasks and news, format the digest, and send the email.
Check the recipient inbox for the daily digest email summarizing tasks and top news.
Confirm the email includes up-to-date tasks and news; adjust RSS URL or credentials if data is missing.
