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Auto-Generate a Family Weekend Activity Newsletter with Grok Bot

Enter home address and kids' ages → Grok Bot researches local activities → auto-sends a customizable email every Monday

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Who
Parents with young children who want to save time planning weekend activities
You get
A personalized Monday-morning email with 6–8 curated local family activities, weather, prices, and sign-up links
You need
Gmail

Constraints

Requires a Grok Bot account and a Gmail address. Fill the prompt template with your home address, family composition, theme preference, recipient, and schedule, paste it into the Bot, review the first preview, and enable weekly auto-send. Replace activity sources with reliable local channels for your region.

What they did

Author gtm_engineer built an automated newsletter called "The Cub Report" for his wife Tori, who previously spent significant time manually hunting parent sites, checking age suitability, calculating drive times, watching weather, and finding sign-up links for their 4-year-old and 1-year-old. He created a Grok Bot that runs every Monday, using a detailed prompt to research, format, and email a curated list of activities.

How it went

The author reports that a personalized email lands in their inbox every Monday morning with 6–8 researched local activities, estimated drive times, prices, sign-up links, a 4-day weather forecast, and seasonal themes (e.g., Halloween lineup). After the first preview is approved, it continues running automatically. (author_report)

Worth knowing

1. Activity sources listed in the prompt (local parent sites, libraries, parks, museums, farms) must be replaced with reliable channels for your own region, or the Bot may return inaccurate or outdated events. 2. The source does not explain how Grok Bot schedules the weekly recurrence (built-in scheduler vs. external trigger) or the exact Gmail authorization flow (OAuth / app password), so actual setup may vary with platform changes. 3. On first run, verify that activity links, prices, and hours in the preview are real and current before confirming send. 4. The author notes the theme design (e.g., tiger) is customizable, but actual visual rendering depends on Grok Bot's email formatting capabilities.

Steps

  1. Create the bot and connect Gmail

    Create a new @bot in Grok and connect the Gmail account you want the newsletter sent from.

  2. Paste and fill in the prompt

    Paste the full prompt below into the Bot chat, replacing all bracketed placeholders with your own details: home address, family ages, theme name, recipient and CC addresses, send time.

    Execution prompt · Source text。Grok Bot chat input; replace all [placeholders] before sending

    Every [Monday at 8 AM], research family activities for the coming week within a 1-hour drive of [home address]. We're [family, e.g. two parents, a 4-year-old and a 1-year-old] and we have a car. Use real, date-checked events from local parent sites, libraries, parks, museums and farms, and include 6–8 picks: some close to home, a day trip, seasonal events, a rainy-day option, and 2–4 age-appropriate kids' shows in the city. For each pick, give the day and time, driving time from home, price, a line on why it suits our kids, and a link. Add a weather forecast for the next 4 days. Turn it into a fun, skimmable email newsletter with a [theme, e.g. tiger] design and a compact header, show me a preview first, then email it to [recipient] with [me] cc'd every [Monday].

  3. Review preview and confirm send

    Review the first email preview returned by the Bot. Ask for design or content changes if needed. Once satisfied, reply "send it" and the Bot will run automatically on the scheduled cadence.

Prompt you can copy

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No prompt needed — just follow the steps.

The core prompt is in Step 2; paste it verbatim and replace all bracketed placeholders with your personal details.

Source

The Cub Report：Grok Bot 家庭周末活动周报（5 分钟可粘贴） · gtm_engineer · X · 2026-10-29T17:59:07.000Z

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