Morning Digest

morning-digest

A lightweight morning digest generator for PMs and busy professionals.

It creates one compact text digest with:

• your next 24 hours of calendar events
• important unread Gmail messages
• AI news with short TL;DRs
• product news with short TL;DRs
• local news with short TL;DRs when material

Why this exists

If your mornings start with too many tabs, too many inbox checks, and too much context switching, this script gives you one clean briefing instead.

It is built for people who want:

• a fast view of the day ahead
• inbox signal without scanning everything
• a lightweight intelligence brief
• something simple enough to self-host and tweak

What makes it usable

You do **not** need to edit the script to get started.

On first run, it prompts you for:

• your name
• your timezone
• your calendar labels + calendar IDs
• your local-news query and keywords

It saves that setup to:

• ~/.morning-digest/config.json

After that, the digest is ready to run daily.

Quick start

1. Install requirements

You need:

• Python 3.11+
• `gog` configured for your Google account
• a Brave Search API key available in OpenClaw config at ~/.openclaw/openclaw.json

2. Make sure `gog` works

Before using the digest, make sure your Google tooling is already authenticated.

For example:

gog calendar list --json
gog gmail labels --json

If those work, the digest will usually work too.

3. Run the setup wizard

python3 morning_digest.py --setup

You’ll be prompted for your personal details and calendar setup.

4. Generate your digest

python3 morning_digest.py

Example setup prompts

• Your name
• Timezone
• Calendar 1 label
• Calendar 1 id
• Calendar 2 label
• Calendar 2 id
• Local news section label
• Local news search query
• Local relevance keywords

Config file

The script stores a local config here:

~/.morning-digest/config.json

Example:

{
  "name": "Shadman",
  "timezone": "Europe/Stockholm",
  "calendars": [
    { "label": "Personal", "id": "your-personal-calendar-id@example.com" },
    { "label": "Work", "id": "your-work-calendar-id@example.com" }
  ],
  "gmail_queries": [
    "in:inbox is:unread is:important",
    "in:inbox is:unread category:primary",
    "in:inbox is:unread"
  ],
  "news": {
    "ai_query": "AI news OR artificial intelligence latest developments",
    "product_query": "product launch OR product update OR release notes SaaS software",
    "local_query": "Sweden OR Uppsala important local news",
    "local_label": "SWEDEN + UPPSALA (only if material)",
    "local_keywords": ["uppsala", "sweden", "swedish", "stockholm"]
  }
}

Sample output

Shadman's Morning Digest Tue Mar 10, 07:30 (Stockholm)

CALENDAR (next 24h; checked 2 calendars)
Personal
• 08:30–09:00 Dentist appointment
Work
• 09:35–10:00 Team standup
• 13:00–14:00 Product review

GMAIL (top 5 important unread)
• Stripe: Ne