10 min / beginner / 5 steps

Automate Your Newsletter in 10 Minutes

Feed Claude your sources (URLs, RSS feeds, or topics) and get a fully formatted newsletter draft ready to send.

Writing a newsletter is mostly curation: you scan ten tabs, decide what matters, and then spend an hour stitching it into prose. Claude can do the scanning, the summarizing, and the first draft. You do the editing and add your voice at the end.

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You need: A Claude account. Open claude.ai in a browser, or the Claude desktop app.

  1. step 01 / 05

    Tell Claude what your newsletter is about

    Open Claude.ai and describe your newsletter in one message. The more specific, the better the draft.

    Prompt
    I run a weekly newsletter for product managers called "PM Pulse." It covers product strategy, interesting frameworks, and one tool worth trying. My audience is mid-to-senior PMs at tech companies. Tone is smart but not stuffy, like a sharp PM friend texting you.

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    Give Claude your sources

    Paste URLs, article titles, or just topics you've been thinking about. Claude will turn them into newsletter content.

    Prompt
    Here are my sources for this week: 1. https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/the-arc-of-the-pm 2. Teresa Torres just posted about continuous discovery, something about switching from output to outcome metrics 3. I've been experimenting with using Granola for meeting notes this week, it's been great 4. Saw a tweet about "shape-up" methodology making a comeback at a few companies

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    Ask Claude to add your voice

    The first draft is accurate but probably a bit flat. Ask Claude to punch it up, add a hot take, sharpen the opener, make it sound more like you.

    Prompt
    The draft is good but too safe. Make the insight section punchier. Add a hot take. I'm not afraid of disagreeing with conventional wisdom.

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    Get it formatted for your platform

    Whether you use Substack, Beehiiv, or plain email, ask Claude to format it correctly.

    Prompt
    Format this for Substack. Include a subject line, preview text, and proper section headers.

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    Save your newsletter prompt as a reusable template

    The instructions you just gave Claude are now a reusable recipe. Save them as your permanent "newsletter prompt" so you never start from scratch again.

    Prompt
    Summarize the instructions I gave you into a reusable prompt I can paste at the start of every future session.

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Just finished "Automate Your Newsletter in 10 Minutes" on Claude Code Guide. Took about 10 min, and it's free: https://claudecodeguide.dev/tutorials/newsletter-automator

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