Setting up Google Alerts is a great way to stay up to date on topics that are important to you and your business, but once you set up several alerts, you run the risk of email overload, never-ending long-form articles you’ll never read, and ultimately, you’ll miss important news.
But have no fear, a little automation with AI can help organize and streamline all your Google Alerts into concise summaries with clear categories — stored or routed to your app of choice.
In this tutorial, we’ll set up a Google Alert, route it to an RSS feed, parse the RSS feed with Zapier, summarize and categorize the content with OpenAI, and eventually store the summaries in Google Sheets.
You’ll need:
Steps:
- Step 1: Create a Google Alert with RSS delivery
- Step 2: Generate an OpenAI key
- Step 3: Set up a Zap to receive, format, and parse your RSS feed(s)
- Step 4: Summarize your alert content with OpenAI
- Step 5: Categorize your alert content with OpenAI
- Step 6: Send your summary and category data to Google Sheets