The weekly content workflow that runs on autopilot

The bottleneck isn't ideas. It's the 45-minute gap between having one and publishing it.

The workflow at a glance

Notion idea → Claude drafts 3 variants → You pick one → Buffer schedules it

Total human time: ~5 minutes. The rest is automated.

Step 1 — Capture ideas (always on)

Keep a Notion database with one column: Topic. Add ideas whenever they come to you — in the app, from Siri, from a web clipper. Don't write copy here. Just the raw idea.

Step 2 — Trigger the draft (automated)

Set a make.com scenario to watch for rows where Status = Ready. When triggered:

  1. Send the topic to Claude with your brand voice baked into the prompt.
  2. Request 3 short-form variants (for IG, LinkedIn, and Threads).
  3. Write all 3 back to the Notion row.

Step 3 — Review (5 minutes, human)

Open the row. Read 3 variants. Pick one. Tweak one sentence if needed. Check the Approved box.

Step 4 — Schedule (automated)

make.com watches for Approved = true and sends the post to Buffer with your preferred time slot.

Why 3 variants and not 1?

Because you'll always change something in a single draft. 3 variants forces a choice, not an edit session. Choosing takes 10 seconds. Editing a bad draft takes 20 minutes.

Tools used

  • Notion — content calendar and idea capture
  • make.com — automation glue
  • Claude API — drafting (use the claude-sonnet-4-6 model)
  • Buffer or Typefully — scheduling

The one thing that makes this fail

Not having a brand voice prompt. Without it, Claude writes generic content. Spend 30 minutes once building your voice block — then every draft comes out sounding like you.

Free resource

The exact pipeline — tools, prompts, and scheduling logic — in one reference file.

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