What to do this weekend: a guide draft with the forecast

What it does

Every Thursday: museums, galleries, concert halls and parks in your city, the best rated first, with the weekend forecast at each, written up by xMap AI as a weekend guide (indoor picks first when rain is due), saved to Google Drive and emailed to the editor.

In one sentence: Thursdays at 10:00, in Lisbon, find museums, art galleries and 2 more in the area, get the 3-day weather forecast, write a report with xMap AI, then create file from text in Google Drive and email the list to you.

Why it is useful

Weekend guides are read most on Friday. A draft that already knows the forecast saves the desk a morning.

Who it is for

Media, newsrooms & publishing. Newsrooms, broadcasters, publishers and media sales teams who need local stories, audiences and advertisers first. Every use case for media & publishing

Best use cases

• A city news site
• A lifestyle magazine
• A local radio station’s website

What each run gives you

• A document in Google Drive
• An email

The time it saves

Thursdays at 10:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 90 minutes each time; it runs about 5 times a month, so it saves about 8 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 7 blocks.

The flow, block by block

1. Every ThursdayTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
2. My cityWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
3. Museums, galleries, halls and parksxMap data · Nearby placesPlaces around a point from xMap’s own places database (300M+ places, refreshed every month): pick the types of place (more than 5,000, such as Restaurant, Cafe, Pharmacy, Hospital or Gas station, or a whole group of them) and how far to look.
4. Forecast for 3 daysxMap data · Weather forecastThe weather forecast (Open-Meteo, from national weather services) for up to 16 days: temperature, rain, wind and UV.
5. Write the weekend guidexMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
6. Save the guide to Google DriveApp · Google DriveCloud storage and file backup
7. Email me the listAction · EmailSends one email per run with all the items, or one email per item.

Every block can be changed after you use the template: the city, the type of place, the score, where the results go.

Use it now

Answer a few questions, enter your work email, and it runs in your own account, kept running until you pause it. Use this template.