Work out the questions worth asking, then answer them
Name a subject and it decides which questions are worth asking, then answers each one from a page it actually read.
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.
- 1Google SheetsRead rowsReads the 'Questions and answers' tab to collect every question already asked, so none is asked twice.
- 2AnthropicGenerate model responseAsks the AI which questions are worth asking about your subject, then to answer each from one page's text alone.
For each
line- 3SerperSearch webSearches the web for each question alongside the subject and takes the first secure result as the page to read.
If
pageUrlis empty- 4Google SheetsAppend rowAppends one row per question with the date, subject, question, answer, source page and whether it was answered from that page.
Otherwise
- 5Jina AIRead urlFetches the readable text of the chosen page so the answer can be written from it and nothing else.
If the length of
pageTextis less than 200- 6Google SheetsAppend row
Otherwise
- 7AnthropicGenerate model response
- 8Google SheetsAppend row
- 6
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How it works
What happens on each run, in plain English.
Give it a subject rather than a question, and every week the AI works out the handful of questions whose answers would actually change what you do about it. Each question is searched on the web, the first secure page found is read, and the AI answers from the text of that one page and nothing else.
You end up with a 'Questions and answers' tab that fills up a few questions at a time, one row per question: the date asked, the subject, the question, the answer, the page it came from and what happened. A question the page does not answer is left with an empty answer cell and a note saying so, never filled in from what the AI happens to know, and a question no page could be found for is recorded the same way. Questions already on the tab are skipped, so nothing is asked twice.
Before the first run you need a spreadsheet with a tab named 'Questions and answers' and a heading row in that column order; a missing tab is treated as empty and reported.
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