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Get a daily e-mail digest of any RSS feed with Gmail

Collect the newest articles of a feed every morning and mail them to yourself as one tidy digest from your own Gmail account — no password needed.

Instead of a notification for every article, one e-mail each morning with the list of new posts. This guide uses the ready-made template Daily RSS digest by e-mail and sends from your own Gmail address.

What you need

• A free W flow account.
• A Google account (Gmail).
• The feed you want to follow — the template starts with Hacker News.

Step 1 — Start from the template

Open Workflows → Templates and choose Daily RSS digest by e-mail. It has four nodes:

1. Schedule (Cron) — fires every weekday at 8:00 (0 8 * * 1-5).
2. RSS — Read Feed — reads the newest 15 articles.
3. Code (JS) — turns them into a numbered list and a subject line.
4. Gmail — Send Email — mails the digest.

Step 2 — Choose your feed and time

• In RSS — Read Feed, replace the URL with your feed and set how many articles to include.
• In Schedule, change the cron expression if you like: 0 7 * * * is every day at 7:00, 0 18 * * 5 every Friday at 18:00. Set Timezone (e.g. Europe/Berlin) so the time matches yours.

Step 3 — Connect Gmail (no password)

1. Click the Gmail — Send Email node.
2. Click Connect Google next to Google account and allow W flow to send e-mail. Your Gmail password is never entered in W flow — Google hands over a revocable permission, stored encrypted.
3. Fill in To with your address. Subject and Message already use the digest built by the Code node ({{subject}}, {{digest}}).

Step 4 — Test and save

Press Run to send one digest right now and check your inbox. Save the workflow; from then on the server sends it on schedule, whether or not you are logged in. Each run is listed under Executions.

Make it yours

• Several feeds: add more RSS — Read Feed nodes and join them with Merge.
• Let an AI node write a three-sentence summary on top of the list.
• Switch Message is HTML on and build a formatted newsletter in the Code node.