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Turn one document into a study guide, a briefing and a timeline

Reads one Google Doc and writes three new documents from it: a study guide, a ten-minute briefing and a dated timeline.

Run manually2 apps6 steps

Apps it connects

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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.

  1. 1Google DocsGet document textReads the full text of the source document, which is the only material the three drafts are written from.
  2. 2AnthropicGenerate model responseAsks the AI for a study guide, a ten minute briefing and a dated timeline, each drawn from the document alone.
  3. 3Google DocsCreate documentCreates three new documents named after your pack: one each for the study guide, the briefing and the timeline.
  4. 4Google DocsInsert headingPuts a top level heading at the start of each new document naming it as the study guide, briefing or timeline.
  5. 5Google DocsAppend textWrites the study guide and briefing text, a source credit on each document, and a note of timeline dates dropped or absent.
  6. If tracedCount is more than 0

    1. 6Google DocsAdd bulleted listAdds the timeline as a bulleted list, one dated event per bullet, using only entries whose date appears in the source.

How it works

What happens on each run, in plain English.

Point it at one Google Doc, a chapter, a report, a policy or a set of minutes, and run it to get three new documents in your Google Drive: a study guide, a briefing for someone with ten minutes, and a timeline of the dated events the document states. The AI writes all three from that document and nothing else, told to add no outside knowledge and to say where the document is silent rather than fill the gap.

The timeline is checked mechanically as well as asked for politely, because an invented date reads exactly like a real one. Every entry must quote its date as the document writes it, any entry whose date cannot be found in the text is dropped and listed at the foot of the page, and if the document states no dates the page says so instead of inventing a sequence. The source is only ever read. Three fresh documents named after your pack are created every run, and if any draft comes back empty the run stops before creating anything, so you never get a half-built set.

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