Creating a weekly digest of new or updated content using only contributed modules

What's this about?

Most of the projects I am working on involve creating a website (obviously). In most cases, the project team also requires an internal area (which might be another tutorial in the future). Out of that structure came the need to have a weekly digest of recent activities in that internal area. The users do not want to login every day to check for new or updated content and neither did they want to receive an email (via rules) each time new content or comment is added.

What's the current situation?

There are quite some modules which aim to achieve a function similar to a digest. Notifications apparently had this functionality in D6 version, but 7.x is in dev (without any change since summer 2012). I was able to get something working, using Notifiations 7.x-1.x-dev, Job Scheduler 7.x-2.0-alpha3 and Messaging 7.x-1.x-dev. However, on the specified date (or time) it wouldn't send out a single email (digest functionality) but one mail for each new content or comment.

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