Summarise a batch of documents into one digest
Reads each Google Doc you list, summarises it with AI, and appends every summary to one digest document.
Apps it connects
Authenticate each one once and the workflow is ready to run.
What it does
Each integration step this workflow runs, in order, what it is for, and the conditions and loops that decide when it runs.
For each
link- 1Google DocsGet document textReads the text of each document you listed, and marks any that cannot be opened or are empty as skipped.
- 2OpenAIQuery modelAsks the AI to summarise one document at a time following your instructions, using only what the document itself says.
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- 3Google DocsAppend textAppends a dated block of summaries and source links to the digest, plus a list of anything that could not be read.
How it works
What happens on each run, in plain English.
Give it a list of Google Docs links and one Google Doc to collect the results in, then run it whenever you have a batch to get through. Each document is read in turn, summarised by the AI following your own instructions, and added to the digest under its source link.
You end up with a dated block in the digest holding one summary per document, each followed by the link it came from. Every run adds a new block rather than replacing what is already there, so the digest becomes a running record you can search later, and summaries use only what each document says. A document that cannot be opened, whether a bad link, a file the connected account cannot reach or an empty page, is listed at the bottom under 'Could not be read' and the rest of the batch still goes through, so one broken link never costs you the whole run. Only Google Docs have text to read, so PDFs, spreadsheets and images land on that list too.
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