Guides · Updated 24 Sep 2026
A weekly board digest on monday.com instead of manual check-ins
Most weekly check-ins re-read the board to answer the same questions: what is late, what is stuck, what did nobody touch. The board already knows.
The short answer
A digest should arrive on the same day and hour every week, lead with the counts, and list only the few items that need a person, in order of urgency: SLA breached, then at risk, stale, overdue and slipped.
What belongs in it
- A headline with the counts, so a quiet week takes five seconds to read.
- The most urgent items first, with why each is listed.
- Nothing that needs no action.
monday.com's own recurring automation, every time period, can send a fixed reminder such as a Monday 9 a.m. notification. monday.com's help center says its time-based automations run in the desktop time zone of the person who set them up, so a 9 a.m. reminder set in New York reaches a colleague in Los Angeles at 6 a.m. The articles we read describe it sending the reminder text you write, not counts pulled from the board. monday.com's AI agents can also run at set times and summarize information; we have not tested whether one produces this list.
How Stale & SLA does it
In the board's Stale & SLA settings, an account admin switches on Send it to me under Weekly digest and picks the weekday and hour. Each week they get one monday.com notification: a headline with the counts and the five most urgent items. Preview this week's digest shows the full text, and Save & send it to me now sends a test copy.
It reaches the account admins who switch it on.
Frequently asked
- Who can switch it on?
- Each account admin opts in for themselves, and the digest goes to the admins who do.
- What if nothing needs attention?
- The headline says so, and the list is empty.
Stale & SLA adds time in status, stale alerts, SLA targets and escalations to any monday.com board. Set-up is one status column and a Save on each board.
Stale & SLA is in review for the monday.com Marketplace. Until monday.com approves the listing, the install screen says the app has not been reviewed yet. How it handles your data.