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Get a weekly list of trending topics in your niche
Every Monday you get five timely post ideas based on what people are talking about in your field, logged in a sheet for planning.
When to use it
Every Monday morning
Step by step
Set up a scheduled task
In ChatGPT, if your plan includes scheduled tasks, ask it to run a task every Monday at 8am with the prompt below. It will send you the results as a notification or email.
Prompt to copySearch the web for what's being discussed this week in [your niche] that matters to [audience] in [country]. Look at news, Google Trends topics and popular questions. Give me 5 post ideas as a table: Topic, Why it's timely (one line, with the source link), Post angle for [business type], Best platform, Suggested first line. Skip anything older than 10 days, and skip sensitive tragedies.Have a free fallback ready
No scheduled tasks? Create a recurring Monday event in Google Calendar called 'Trend check' with the prompt pasted in the description, and run it yourself in any AI assistant with web search.
Log ideas in a sheet
Make a Google Sheet called Trend ideas with the same columns plus Date and Used. Paste each week's table in so you build a bank of ideas over time.
Check before you post
Click the source link for any idea you use. Trends move fast and AI can misread dates.
What you get
Topic: New rules on garden water butts | Timely: council grants announced Tuesday (link) | Angle: 'How to claim yours in 3 steps' | Instagram carousel | First line: 'Free water butt, anyone?'
Tips
- Use Google Trends' Explore page to compare two topics quickly before you commit to one.