Draft This Week's Newsletter From What Shipped
For the newsletter that's always written on Friday night. DuckyHelper reads the week's finished Linear issues and Notion updates, picks the stories readers care about, and drafts the issue in beehiiv through its own web API. Sending is yours.
“Draft this week's newsletter in beehiiv from what we shipped in Linear and our Notion updates.”
- 01Write small tools for Linear and beehiiv, onceSmall JavaScript tools made from how each site already works. The next run calls them directly.
listIssues(state, range)createPost(title, content)
- 02Read what shipped this week
- 03Read team updates in Notion
- 04Pick the three stories worth telling
- 05Draft the issue in beehiiv
- 06Leave it for you to send
You getOn time, every week. A draft ready for your edits. Next week it's one ask.
A run, drawn from this page · early access on Mac
It's built to wait for your OK.
It does the work, then stops with the new message ready for you. You see exactly what it wrote, then Send, Edit or Deny.
If it hits a sign-in, you sign in yourself. It's built not to type your passwords or card numbers.
BeehiivNew messageNeeds your OKDo it once. Then let it repeat.
When it's done, it offers to keep doing it: every Monday at 9:00 AM. Each run goes through the API it learned the first time, so it's quick, and it's still built to ask before it sends or pays.
Always-on automations are in early access on Mac.
Before you ask it.
What do I say?
Press fn (Ctrl+Shift+Space on Windows and Linux) and ask out loud, in your own words, like "Draft this week's newsletter in beehiiv from what we shipped in Linear and our Notion updates."
Why is the second time faster?
The first time, it writes small JavaScript tools for Linear, Notion and beehiiv and builds an API from each site's own buttons, forms and requests. After that it calls them directly, so the job runs in one go instead of click by click. It costs less and breaks less.
Will it send anything without me?
It's built to ask first before it sends a message or pays for anything, and to wait for your yes. It may not recognize every send or payment, so keep an eye on tasks that involve messages or money. It's built not to type your passwords or card numbers: you sign in yourself, and it picks up from there.
Why not just do it by hand?
The news is all there in your tools, but turning it into a newsletter is a weekly scramble.
Can it keep doing this on its own?
Yes. When it's done it offers to make it automatic (every Monday at 9:00 AM). Each run goes the same way and is still built to ask before it sends or pays.
Can I use this today?
Doing jobs in your apps is in early access on Mac. Talking to DuckyHelper, and having it see your screen and draw on it, works today on Mac, Windows and Linux.
- Early access
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Do anything
Ask it a question or hand it a job, in any app.
Doing jobs for you is in early access on Mac. Asking works on Mac, Windows and Linux.