What I scheduled
I set up a daily task that produces short-form videos for my Vietnamese channel teaching practical AI ("Cộng đồng AI Thực Chiến"). Every morning it: picks the day's content style from a 7-day rotation (Monday = tutorial, Tuesday = tool discovery, Wednesday = story, etc.), checks a running topic index so it never repeats an idea, then writes 2 full videos — voiceover script + an animated HTML video composition (HyperFrames) + ready-to-post captions split for YouTube, TikTok, Facebook and Instagram. It logs each one to a Notion database. A second automated job on my Mac then renders the HTML into finished MP4s on its own.
Scheduled task or loop?
A recurring scheduled task (daily), because content is a fixed daily cadence — I want output every morning whether or not I open my laptop. The rendering step runs as a separate loop on my machine so the video files are ready without me.
One surprise
I came back after a few days away and found a whole week of finished videos — each with a different, non-duplicate topic, full scripts, and social copy already filed in Notion. It kept the ideas fresh across days completely on its own; I expected to babysit topic selection and didn't have to.