Rewritten
Why I Finally Automated the Most Boring Task on My List
For over a year, I put off automating my invoicing process. It wasn't hard — it was just boring, and boring tasks are easy to keep deprioritizing in favor of more interesting work.
When I finally sat down and wrote a simple script to handle it, the whole thing took about two hours. Since then, it's saved roughly three hours a month — time that used to disappear into a repetitive task I dreaded every billing cycle.
The lesson wasn't really about invoicing. It was a reminder that the least exciting item on your list is often the highest-leverage one to fix, precisely because nobody wants to deal with it.
About this tool
Newsletter content is often too good to live only in an inbox, but it's written with assumptions — a direct greeting, insider references, a casual sign-off — that don't belong on a public page. This tool strips those email-specific elements, adds a proper title, and adjusts the tone so the piece reads as a standalone blog post rather than a letter to subscribers. It's the reverse of the blog-to-newsletter tool, and useful for archiving newsletter content on a site for SEO and long-term discoverability.
Frequently asked questions
Does it remove the greeting and sign-off automatically?+
Yes, email-specific elements like "Hey everyone" and sign-offs are stripped out and replaced with a proper blog title and structure.
Will it work on newsletters with multiple sections?+
It works best on single-topic newsletter sends; for multi-section newsletters, consider running each section through separately for a cleaner standalone post.
Is the tone different from the original email?+
Slightly — it's adjusted to suit a public audience rather than existing subscribers, since blog readers won't have the same context as your list.