How to Create Your Own AI Newsletter in 2 Minutes

What you'll build

Most "AI newsletter generators" are really design tools: they help you lay out an email you still have to fill with words. This is the opposite. You never open a blank editor—you describe what you want once, and the writing happens on its own, every day.

Here's the whole idea. You give the agent one instruction—"a daily brief on X, for someone like me"—and each morning it goes and reads the web, then writes you a short email answering it, with the sources linked. Change your mind next week? Edit one sentence.

That's why two minutes is enough. There's no content calendar, no writing shift, no fifteen tabs. The newsletter is a prompt you own, and the agent does the rest—on the topic, in the tone, at the time you pick.

Step by step: from zero to your first edition

The whole setup takes about two minutes. And every screenshot below comes straight from the real product — nothing is mocked up.

1. Step 1 Open morningmail.ai

   Head over to morningmail.ai. You'll see a sample edition and the Compose button — that's your entry point. Nothing to install; everything runs in the browser.

   

2. Step 2 Create your free account

   Sign up with your Google account. Every new account comes with a free first edition built in — so you can send yourself a real email before paying a cent.

   

3. Step 3 Create your first template

   A template is the blueprint of your email: name, delivery time, recipients, and your content sections. Click "New template" and the builder opens with a live preview right next to the editor. Everything saves automatically — there is no save button to forget.

   

4. Step 4 Add a news section

   Click "Add section +" and pick "News topic". You'll see six starters — real, editable prompts for a city, a sports club, a company, a tech topic, a professional field, and a personal interest. Pick one, and you're thirty seconds away from a working brief.

   

5. Step 5 Make it yours: AI

   In the section picker, pick a starter that fits—"Personal interest" is the friendliest—and type your topic into the highlighted field. Here I typed AI. The card rewrites its prompt live as you type, so you read the exact instruction the agent will follow every morning before you save a thing.

   The starter is deliberately strict—one great thing a day, written for someone who already knows the basics, sources linked—because that restraint is what makes a daily email worth opening. It works untouched, but it's yours to sharpen: open the module and add a line like "focus on practical releases I can actually use, skip the hype."

   

   The exact prompt your section starts with

   One thing happening in the world of AI today, written for an enthusiast — not a beginner. Skip celebrity gossip. Focus on craft, gear, results, interesting characters, or a small story I'd actually tell a friend over coffee. Quality over quantity.

6. Step 6 Set your delivery time and send yourself a test

   Almost there! Choose when the email should arrive and add your address as a recipient. Hit "Send test" — your first edition is free — and check your inbox. If something reads off, tweak the prompt and send again. Then flip the template to Active. Congratulations — you've just built your own morning brief!

   

Get more out of your brief

Start from a starter, not a blank page

The six starter cards—city, sports club, company, tech topic, professional field, personal interest—already carry a good prompt. Pick the closest one and change one word; you'll get a better first edition than most people manage after an hour of tweaking.

Pick your delivery time before your topic

Every template has a delivery time and selectable weekdays. A newsletter that lands at 7:00 with your coffee gets read; one that arrives at noon competes with everything else. Set the time first, then the days—Monday to Friday is a great default.

One topic beats ten

It's tempting to cram five interests into one newsletter. Don't, at least not on day one. A single sharp section—"AI, for a builder"—reads better than a grab-bag, and you can always add a second section later.

Stack sections for a fuller email

A template is more than one topic. Add a TL;DR summary up top, a quote to open, or a second news section for a different beat—each section has its own length and tone, so your main topic stays the headline.

Send yourself the first one

Add your own address as the first recipient and send a test before you invite anyone. The first edition is free, so you see the real thing—subject line, layout, sources—before it goes out. Happy with it? Add the rest of your readers (up to 100) and let it run.

Good sources to anchor your brief on

The agent searches the open web every morning and cites where it read things. These are the sources I'd point it at in your prompt:

• Primary sources over aggregators — The best briefs link the thing itself—the release, the filing, the official post—not a blog summarising it. MorningMail's agent is told to prefer primary sources and link them, so every claim is one click from proof.
• The outlet closest to the story — For local news, the town paper; for a company, its own newsroom; for a sport, the federation. Naming the outlet you trust in your prompt steers the agent toward it.
• Reputable trade and specialist press — Every field has a handful of publications insiders actually read. You don't need to list them all—a couple in your prompt teaches the agent the quality bar you expect.
• Official blogs, changelogs and filings — The quiet pages where things are announced first, before the hot takes. A good brief surfaces these and links them so you can verify in one click.

Frequently asked questions

How much does it cost to run an AI newsletter?

The first edition is free, no credit card. After that each send costs a few credits per section, priced by the AI model tier the section uses—a simple daily brief is a few cents' worth. Credits never expire, so pausing for a while costs nothing.

Do I need to know how to write prompts?

No. Every starter card ships with a working prompt, so you can send your first newsletter without changing a word. Prompts are there when you want to sharpen the brief—not a hurdle to starting.

Can I send it to other people, or just myself?

Both. Add up to 100 recipients per template and everyone gets the same morning email. Plenty of people start with just their own address and add readers once they like it.

Is this like Mailchimp or Substack?

Different job. Those are great for newsletters you write yourself. MorningMail writes the content for you from a prompt and a live web search—you're setting up an agent, not a publishing tool. Honestly, a lot of people run both.

What can I actually make a newsletter about?

Almost anything specific: a city, a sports club, a company, a tech topic, your profession, a hobby. If you can describe it in a sentence, the agent can search for it every morning. Stuck for ideas? There's a whole guide of them.