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Wake up to a daily summary of weather, your calendar, and top news — delivered to your inbox
Every morning at 7am, your Mac Mini pulls today's weather, your calendar events, and top headlines — and emails you a plain-English summary. No subscriptions, runs on your own hardware. Setup takes about an hour, mostly waiting for accounts.
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How to do it
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BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE: You will need a free Google Cloud account to connect your calendar. Go to console.cloud.google.com, sign in with your Google account, and follow the 'Enable the Google Calendar API' guide at developers.google.com/calendar/api/quickstart. This takes about 15 minutes and does not cost anything. If this step feels daunting, this is a good candidate for a Setup Session.
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Install n8n on your Mac Mini using the Docker install at docs.n8n.io/hosting/installation/docker — takes about 10 minutes
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Install Ollama from ollama.com and run: ollama pull llama3 in your Terminal
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In n8n, create a new workflow and add a Schedule trigger set to 7:00am daily
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Add an HTTP Request node pointed at api.open-meteo.com — paste in the URL for your location (the Open-Meteo website has a free URL builder at open-meteo.com)
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Add a Google Calendar node — connect it using the credentials you set up in step 1
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Add an Ollama node with this prompt: 'Summarize the following in plain English in 5 bullet points: today's weather, today's calendar events, and any news items. Be brief and practical.'
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Add a Send Email node pointed at your own email address
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Click 'Test workflow' to run it manually and check the output
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Once it looks good, activate the workflow — it will run automatically every morning
Watch out for
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Your Mac Mini needs to be on (not fully shut down) at 7am — sleep mode is fine, full shutdown is not
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The Google Calendar API setup in step 1 is the only tricky part — everything else is connecting nodes in n8n
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If the Google API step is blocking you, the Setup Session will get you through it in 20 minutes
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Open-Meteo is genuinely free with no account — just a URL with your latitude and longitude
The Google Calendar API setup is the part that trips people up. Book a Setup Session and we will handle it for you. Book a Setup Session →
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