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Trying to find work-life balance on your own is tough. Use these workflows to establish healthier work habits automatically.

How to automate healthy work habits | Zapier

Even with all the talk about work-life balance, a lot of people still struggle with it—even more so if you work remotely. 

5 ways to fight work burnout with automation

Want to set your Slack status every morning when you start work, or every evening when you're out for the day? Zapier can do that for you. Just add the time you want this Zap to run—and choose whether it should run on weekends, too—then put your standard Slack status. Zapier will set it for you every day! Learn more in our 

Schedule is a native Zapier app you can use for recurring tasks. Trigger an action every day of the month, every day of the week or every single day. You can also select the hour of the day. If you're a developer, this is similar to a crontab, cronjob or cron.

Schedule by Zapier

Triggers at user-defined intervals (days, weeks, months)

Custom Frequency

Every Day

Every Hour

Triggers every month, on the day(s) selected.

Every Month

Triggers every week, on the day(s) selected.

Every Week

Slack is a platform for team communication: everything in one place, instantly searchable, available wherever you go. Offering instant messaging, document sharing and knowledge search for modern teams.

Slack

Triggers when a new message is posted to any public channel.

New Public Message Posted Anywhere

New Channel

Triggers when a new message is posted to a specific #channel you choose.

New Message Posted to Channel

Triggers when a custom emoji has been added to a team.

New Team Custom Emoji

Triggers when a new file is uploaded to your workspace.

New File

Triggers when a username or highlight word is mentioned in a public #channel.

New Mention

Triggers when a new message is found that matches the query.

New Message From Query

Triggers when a new message is posted to a specific #private-channel or multi-dm.

New Message Posted to Private Channel

Triggers when a Message is pushed from Slack.

New Pushed Message

Triggers when a reaction (aka reactji) is added to a message in a public #channel.

New Reaction Added

New Saved Message

Triggers when a new Slack user is created / first joins your org.

New User

Finds a Slack message using the Slack Search feature.

Find Message

Finds a user by matching against their email instead of their username.

Find User by Email

Find User by ID

Finds a user by matching against their real name instead of their username.

Find User by Name

Find User by Username

Adds a reminder for yourself or a teammate, just like the `/remind` slash command.

Add Reminder

Invite an existing User to an existing Channel. You must be a member of the channel to invite someone to it.

Invite User to Channel

Posts a message to the specific #channel you choose. Message delivery can be scheduled for later.

Send Channel Message

Sends a direct message to a user or yourself from the Slackbot. Can also schedule a message for later.

Send Direct Message

Create Channel

Post a new message to a private channel you choose. Can also schedule a message for later.

Send Private Channel Message

Set Channel Topic

Update basic profile fields such as name or title

Update Profile

Sets your Slack status to the given text and emoji.

Set Status

Invite a new User to your Slack workspace. Uses legacy tokens.

Invite New User

Custom Actions (Beta)

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

API Request (Beta)

Set Slack status on an automatic daily schedule

Your Slack team should know your schedule, but sharing calendars and sending email updates takes time that's better spent elsewhere. This integration lets you stay focused, automatically setting your Slack status at a specified time before an event in your Microsoft Outlook calendar starts. Keep your team in the loop with instant, effortless updates!

Microsoft Outlook is a web-based suite of webmail, contacts, tasks, and calendaring services.

Microsoft Outlook

Triggers at a specified time before an event in your calendar starts.

Calendar Event Start

Cancelled Calendar Event

New Attachment

Triggers when a new event is created in your calendar.

New Calendar Event

Triggers when a new contact is added to your account

New Contact

Triggers when a new e-mail is received in your inbox.

New Email

Triggers when a new e-mail is received in your inbox that matches a search.

New Email Matching Search

New Flagged Email

Triggers when a new new message in folder is created.

New Message in Folder

Updated Calendar Event

Find Calendar Event

Find a Contact

Find Email

Find or Create Contact

Add Attendees to Calendar Event

Create an event in the calendar of your choice.

Create Event

Create Contact

Creates a draft of an email that can then be reviewed and sent out.

Create Draft Email

Create Draft Reply

Delete Event

Creates a new reply to email, probably with input from previous steps.

Reply to Email

Send Email

Update Calendar Event

Update Contact

Create new status updates in Slack with Microsoft Outlook calendar events

Use this integration to communicate your status with your Slack team. After you set it up, whenever an event starts in Google Calendar, Zapier will automatically update your status in Slack. That way, your team will know you're AFK with no extra effort on your part.

Google Calendar lets you organize your schedule and share events with co-workers and friends. With Google's free online calendar, it's easy to keep track of your daily schedule.

Google Calendar

New Calendar

Triggers when an event is cancelled or deleted.

Event Cancelled

Event Ended

Triggers when a specified amount of time before an event starts.

Event Start

Triggers when an event is created or updated (except when it's cancelled).

New or Updated Event

New Event

Triggers when an event is created that matches a search.

New Event Matching Search

Find Event

Finds a specific event by its ID in your calendar.

Retrieve Event by ID

Finds multiple events in your calendar as line items.

Find Multiple Events

Find or Create Event

Invites one or more person to an existing event.

Add Attendee(s) to Event

Create Calendar

Create Detailed Event

Create an event from a piece of text. Google parses the text for date, time, and description info.

Quick Add Event

Updates an event. Only filled fields are updated.

Update Event

Update your Slack status when new Google Calendar events begin

Trello's a great place to plan your projects, but when you're wondering what's on your schedule for the week, you're most likely to check your calendar. Get the best of both by adding Trello cards with due dates to a Google Calendar of your choice so you'll never miss anything you need to do.

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.

New Label

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.

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