AI-Powered Daily Briefing: Automate Your Morning Overview

Transform your chaotic morning routine into a streamlined daily briefing with this AI-powered n8n workflow that automatically aggregates tasks, calendar events, emails, weather, and news into a personalized overview delivered directly to WhatsApp or email.

What this workflow does

This intelligent automation runs every morning at your preferred time to create a comprehensive daily briefing. The workflow fetches tasks from Todoist or Asana, pulls today's Google Calendar events, scans recent Gmail messages, retrieves current weather forecasts from OpenWeatherMap, and gathers top news headlines via NewsAPI. All this data gets aggregated and processed by OpenAI to generate a concise, human-friendly briefing that's delivered through Twilio WhatsApp or SendGrid email. Every briefing is automatically logged to Google Sheets for reference.

Perfect for these use cases

• Busy professionals managing multiple productivity tools who need a structured morning overview
• Remote workers juggling Todoist tasks, Google Calendar meetings, and Gmail communications
• Team leaders requiring daily operational summaries without manual data gathering
• Digital nomads who want weather and news updates alongside their work schedule
• Anyone seeking to replace scattered morning app-checking with one AI-generated digest

Technical details

Built with essential n8n nodes including Schedule Trigger for automated timing, HTTP Request nodes for API integrations, Set nodes for configuration, Code nodes for data processing, and If nodes for delivery routing. The workflow integrates with Todoist/Asana APIs, Google Calendar and Gmail APIs, OpenWeatherMap, NewsAPI, OpenAI for intelligent summarization, plus Twilio for WhatsApp delivery or SendGrid for email routing.

Setup requirements

You'll need active accounts and API keys for your chosen task management platform (Todoist or Asana), Google Workspace (Calendar and Gmail), OpenWeatherMap, NewsAPI, OpenAI, and either Twilio WhatsApp Business API or SendGrid for delivery. Google Sheets integration handles briefing logs.

Customize the cron schedule, adjust AI tone and briefing length, add or remove data sources, and toggle between WhatsApp and email delivery to match your workflow preferences.