📅 2024-12-17 — Session: Enhanced Email Automation and Scheduling
🕒 21:40–22:20
🏷️ Labels: Email Automation, Scheduling, Python, Apscheduler, Cron Jobs
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM
Session Goal
The session aimed to enhance email automation capabilities and improve scheduling accuracy using Python scripts.
Key Activities
- Developed a Python script to send emails with Markdown content by converting it to HTML, ensuring proper rendering in email clients.
- Explored model upgrade options for a staff manager agent, comparing GPT-3.5 Turbo, GPT-4 Turbo, and GPT-4o in terms of pricing, performance, and task suitability.
- Scheduled briefing scripts using a Python scheduler, detailing the setup for morning and evening briefings.
- Debugged cron job scheduling errors due to incorrect hour and minute values, providing corrected code examples.
- Resolved APScheduler errors, including ValueError and timezone mismatches, by providing code snippets for validating timezone configurations and setting the timezone explicitly in job definitions.
Achievements
- Successfully implemented email automation with Markdown support.
- Improved the accuracy of scheduled tasks by resolving cron job and APScheduler errors.
Pending Tasks
- Further testing and validation of the new scheduling scripts in a production environment.