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Discover how a few automated workflows can save you time and minimize repetitive tasks in your Gmail inbox.

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Often it's helpful to store, backup and organize emails matching certain characteristics to a Google Spreadsheet. This Gmail Google Sheets integration makes it a breeze to setup a simple rule (i.e. emails from: 

One of the most popular email services, Gmail keeps track of all your emails with threaded conversations, tags, and Google-powered search to find any message you need.

Triggers when you receive a new attachment.

New Attachment

New Label

Triggers when you receive a new email and label it within two days.

New Labeled Email

Triggers when a new email appears in the specified mailbox.

New Email

Triggers when you receive a new email that matches a search string you provide.

New Email Matching Search

Triggers when you receive a new email and star it within two days.

New Starred Email

New Thread

Find Email

Find or Send Email

Add Label to Email

Delete Email

Create Draft

Create a draft reply to an existing email.

Create Draft Reply

Create Label

Send Email

Remove Label From Email

Reply to Email

Create, edit, and share spreadsheets wherever you are with Google Sheets, and get automated insights from your data.

Google Sheets

Triggers when a new row is added to the bottom of a Google Team Drive spreadsheet.

New Spreadsheet Row (Team Drive)

Triggers when a new row is added to the bottom of a spreadsheet.

New Spreadsheet Row

Triggers when a new spreadsheet is created.

New Spreadsheet

Triggers when a new row is added or an existing row is updated in a spreadsheet. Optimized for Team Drive.

New or Updated Spreadsheet Row (Team Drive)

Triggers when a new row is added or modified in a spreadsheet.

New or Updated Spreadsheet Row

Triggers when a worksheet is created in a spreadsheet.

New Worksheet

Find up to 500 rows based on a column and value as line items.

Lookup Spreadsheet Rows (Advanced)

Find Worksheet

Return up to 500 rows as a single JSON value or as line items.

Get Many Spreadsheet Rows (Advanced)

Find a specific spreadsheet row based on a column and value. If found, it returns the entire row. Optionally, create a new row if no match is found.

Lookup Spreadsheet Row

Finds or creates a specific find worksheet.

Find or Create Worksheet

Find or Create Row

Create a new column in a specific spreadsheet.

Create Spreadsheet Column

Create a new row in a specific spreadsheet.

Create Spreadsheet Row

Create one or more new rows in a specific spreadsheet (with line item support).

Create Multiple Spreadsheet Rows

Creates a new worksheet by copying an existing worksheet.

Copy Worksheet

Creates a new spreadsheet. Choose from a blank spreadsheet, a copy of an existing one, or one with headers.

Create Spreadsheet

Creates a new worksheet in a Google Sheet.

Create Worksheet

Clears the contents of the selected row(s) while keeping the row(s) intact in the spreadsheet.

Clear Spreadsheet Row(s)

Deletes the selected row(s) from the spreadsheet. This action removes the row(s) and all associated data.

Delete Spreadsheet Row(s)

Format Spreadsheet Row

Update Spreadsheet Row

Update one or more rows in a specific spreadsheet (with line item support).

Update Spreadsheet Row(s)

Custom Actions (Beta)

This is an advanced action which makes a raw HTTP request that includes this integration's authentication.

API Request (Beta)

Save new Gmail emails matching certain traits to a Google Spreadsheet

If you find yourself using your inbox as a to-do list, there's a better way. With the help of this Zap, any time you star an email in Gmail, it will automatically create a to-do item for you in Todoist.

Managing millions of tasks, Todoist is an online task management app and todo list. It has Web, iPhone, Android, Chrome, Firefox, Outlook flavors (and more!).

Todoist

Triggers when you complete a task (including recurring tasks) on a project.

New Completed Task

Triggers when you complete a task on a project.

New Complete Task

Triggers when an item with a specific label is completed.

New Complete Task With Label

Triggers when you add an incomplete task to a project.

New Incomplete Task

New Project

Find Project

Find Task

Searches for a user who is connected/shared with your account.

Find User

Find or Create project.

Find or Create Item

Sends an e-mail to a person, inviting them to use one of your projects.
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Invite User to Project

Mark Task as Completed

Move Task to Section

Adds a comment to a task (only available for Todoist Premium users).

Add Comment to Task

Adds a new comment to a project (only available for Todoist Premium users).

Add Comment to Project

Create Project

Create Task

Update Task

Add new starred emails to Todoist as tasks [Business Gmail Accounts Only]

Keeping up with emails can be difficult, but this integration lets you create a new Trello card for follow up later. After you set this integration up, this Zap will automatically create a card in Trello for you when you start a specified email thread in your Gmail account.

Trello is a team collaboration tool that lets you organize anything and everything to keep your projects on task.

Trello

New Board

New Card

Triggers when a Card is archived in Trello.

New Card Archived

Triggers when a Comment is added to a Card in Trello.

New Comment in Card

Triggers when there is activity in Trello.

New Activity

Triggers when a Card is moved to a List in Trello, [inside the same Board](https://zapier.com/apps/trello/help#common-problems-trello#not-triggering-on-card-moved-to-list-when-a-card-is-moved-from-another-board).

Card Moved to List

Triggers at a specified time before a card is due.

Card Due

Triggers when a Card is updated in Trello.

Card Updated

Triggers when a new checklist is created in Trello.

New Checklist

Triggers when a new label is created in Trello.

Triggers when a label is added in a Trello card.

New Label Added to Card

Triggers when a new list on a board is added.

New List

Triggers when a new member joins a board.

New Member on Board

Triggers when you get a new notification in Trello.

New Notification

Finds a label on a particular board by name.

Find Label on Board

Finds a list on a particular board by name.

Find List on a Board

Finds a checklist on a particular board or card by name.

Find Checklist

Finds a checklist item on a particular checklist by name.

Find Checklist Item

Finds a board in your Trello organization by name.

Find Board

Finds a card in your Trello organization by name, given a specified board and list. Does not search archived cards.

Find Card

Finds a member in your Trello organization by name.

Find Member

Find or Create Label

Find or Create List on a Board

Find or Create Checklist

Finds or creates a specific organization board.

Find or Create Board

Finds or creates a specific organization card.

Find or Create Card

Create Checklist Item in Card

Add Member to Board

Create Board

Adds a new card on a specific board and list.

Create Card

Archive Card

Adds one or more attachments to a specific card.

Add Attachment to Card

Adds an existing label to a specific card.

Add Label to Card

Moves a specific card to a list on a specific board.

Move Card to List

Adds one or more members to a specific card.

Add Members to Card

Update a card's name, description, due date, or position in list.

Update Card

Adds a new (or existing) checklist to a card.

Add Checklist to Card

Closes a board without permanently deleting it.

Close Board

Create Comment

Completes an existing checklist item in a card.

Complete Checklist Item in Card

Copy Board

Delete Checklist in Card

Create List

Remove Label From Card

Create Trello cards from new Gmail threads

Whenever you receive a new customer email, create different email responses with OpenAI and save them automatically as Gmail drafts. This Zap lets you send your prospects and clients better-worded, faster email responses without any added clicks or keystrokes.

From the makers of ChatGPT, the OpenAI integration for GPT-3, DALL·E, or Whisper. Build AI powered workflows with OpenAI’s powerful models. 

An optimized ChatGPT integration is available here: https://zapier.com/apps/chatgpt/integrations

OpenAI (GPT-4, DALL-E, Whisper)

This best matches a query string (like "big animal") to a list of document strings (like "mouse", "cat", "buffalo", and "blue whale").

Search Embeddings

Analyzes text for positive, negative or neutral sentiment.

Analyze Text Sentiment

Classify your text into one of your provided categories.

Classify Text

Use the moderation action to check for hate, hate/threatening, self-harm, sexual, sexual/minors, violence, or violence/graphic content in text.

Check Moderation

Creates a new transcription, using Whisper, from an audio or video file.

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