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Recipe: a morning briefing every weekday

Every weekday at 08:00, Hermes sends you on Telegram the weather for your city, the main news headlines and a short motivational line, in under 10 lines.
Time needed 5 minutes
You need A Hermes agent with Telegram connected and a home channel set (see Schedule a recurring task)
Result A short Telegram message every weekday morning

1. Describe your briefing

In the dashboard CHAT (or any chat with Hermes), say what you want, when, and how long:

Create a scheduled job named 'Morning briefing': every weekday at 08:00 Lisbon time, send me on Telegram: today's weather in Porto (min/max and rain), the 3 most important news headlines in Portugal, and one short motivational line. Keep it under 10 lines.

  1. Your request.
  2. Hermes creates the job and tells you when it runs first.

Hermes creates the morning briefing

2. Try it now

You do not have to wait until tomorrow. Open CRON, find Morning briefing (1) and click the lightning icon (2), Trigger now.

Run the briefing now

In our test the briefing arrived on Telegram about 8 seconds later:

☀️ Good morning! Porto today: min 14.5°C / max 16.4°C, rain 100% (25.6 mm)
📰 1) Thousands march for housing rights in Porto, Lisbon and over 30 cities across Portugal (Lusa/Observador)
📰 2) Portugal thrashed 1-4 by Denmark in Braga, the first game of the post-Ronaldo era (DN/IOL)
📰 3) PS leader Carneiro proposes using Caixa Geral de Depósitos dividends to fund public housing (DN)
💪 Rain is just weather: dress for it, show up anyway, and the day is already half won.

Hermes got the weather from a free weather service and the headlines from Portuguese news sites, and named its sources.

Check that it worked

  • The message is in your Telegram chat with the bot.
  • In CRON, Morning briefing shows the time of the run in Last and the next weekday at 08:00 in Next.
  • Every run is also saved as a text file in FILES → cron → output, in a folder named after the job's ID.

Make it yours

  • Change the content: "add my 3 most important tasks for today from workspace/todo.txt".
  • Change the language: "write the briefing in Portuguese".
  • Change the time: "move the Morning briefing to 07:30".
  • Stop it for a while: the pause icon in CRON.

Common problems

Nothing arrives at 08:00

Check CRON: the job must say scheduled, not paused. Check that the home channel is set (see above).

Does this cost money?

Each briefing is one short conversation with your AI provider, every weekday. Search and writing for a briefing like this one use few tokens, but check your provider's usage page after a few days.

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