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Recurring tasks: sci-fi showtimes every other morning, a stock market summary daily

He set up two recurring web-search tasks: every other morning, Muse checks local sci-fi movie showtimes, and every day at 3pm Eastern it sends a stock market summary.

Author:mark_l_watson · 2026-09-09 · news.ycombinator.com

Try it yourself

Copy this to Muse and replace the [brackets] with your own details:

Set up two recurring tasks for me: every other morning check [a type, e.g. sci-fi] movie showtimes in [a location]; and send me a stock market summary at [a time] every day.

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