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published mar 16, 2026
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This guide teaches you how to use Grok’s Tasks feature to create free automated research briefings from live X data. With a free X.com account, you can set up two automated daily tasks that research topics you care about and deliver the results to your email and phone.
You will build one or two scheduled Grok tasks that automatically research topics you care about and deliver the results to your email and phone.
You can include multiple keywords in one task. If you are tracking your industry, ask Grok to search for news on several terms in a single prompt so one well-written task can cover more ground.
Go to grok.com and sign in with your X account. On desktop, you have two ways to find Tasks:
Click Create Task. You will see schedule options: daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly.
Pick daily for your first task, then write a prompt based on what you want Grok to research. Here are a few examples you can copy and adapt:
Search X for the top trends in [your niche] from the last 24 hours. Summarize the top 3 and flag anything gaining traction.Search X for any news, product updates, or mentions about [competitor name] from the past 24 hours. Summarize the key findings.Give me a daily update on local news, events, and weather forecasts in [your city].Search X for injury updates and any roster changes for [your team or league]. Flag anything that happened in the last 24 hours.Focus on topics where X has an edge: timely, breaking, real-time information that traditional search engines may be slower to pick up.
Before you let the task run on schedule, click into it and hit Test. This runs it once so you can see what the output looks like.
Once your task is running, Grok will deliver results in two ways:
You can toggle email and app notifications on or off depending on how you want to receive your briefings. If you do not want another app on your phone, email works fine on its own.
To view results on desktop anytime, navigate back to grok.com/tasks and click into the task.
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