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Want to visualize your todo list on Google Calendar? This Todoist-Google Calendar integration will automatically add your new Todoist tasks to Google Calendar as detailed events.

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

Custom Actions (Beta)

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

API Request (Beta)

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

Delete Event

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

Add new Todoist tasks to Google Calendar as detailed events

Effortlessly eliminate clutter from your Google Calendar by deleting events once you've completed specified tasks. Use this Zap to automatically delete a Google Calendar event whenever you complete a task in Todoist. That way, you can keep your focus on events and tasks that are still left to do.

Find and delete Google Calendar events when new Todoist tasks are completed

When the time comes, you'll want to jump right into the discussion and not worry about setting up a meeting and sending out links. Zapier can do all of that for you once you activate this Zap. Every new event created on Calendly will trigger the automation, creating a Zoom meeting for each one. You can then add a step to your Zap to send the Join URL to the invitee by email or any other medium you'd like.

Calendly is an elegant and simple scheduling tool for businesses that eliminates email back and forth. It helps save time so that businesses can provide great service and increase sales.

Triggers when an invitee cancels a scheduled event.

Invitee Canceled

Triggers when an invitee schedules an event

Invitee Created

Triggers when an invitee is marked as a no-show.

Invitee No Show Created

Creates a new one-off meeting in Calendly.

Create One-Off Meeting

Zoom brings teams together to get more done in a frictionless environment. Zoom's reliable, video-first unified communications platform provides video meetings, voice, webinars, and chat across desktops, phones, mobile devices, and conference systems

Zoom

Triggers when every time a meeting host ends the meeting.

New Meeting Ended

Triggers when a summary is available for a meeting. Note: you must be the meeting host.

New Meeting Summary

Triggers when a new audio transcript has been completed after a meeting or webinar you hosted completes.

New Audio Transcript

Triggers when a new participant joins a webinar or meeting.

New Participant Joined Webinar or Meeting

Triggers when a new Meeting or Webinar is created.

New Meeting

Triggers when a new registrant is added to a meeting.

New Meeting Registrant

Triggers when a new Cloud Recording is completed for a Meeting or Webinar.

New Cloud Recording

Triggers when a new registrant is added to a Webinar.

New Webinar Registrant

Finds a find meeting/webinar based on id or topic name.

Find Meeting/Webinar

Find Recording and Download

Get Meeting Summary

Retrieve the list of participants (as line items) for a given meeting or webinar, up to 3000 participants.

Retrieve Meeting or Webinar Participants

Creates a new Zoom Meeting. (Options not available here will default to user/account Zoom settings.)

Create Meeting

Create Meeting Registrant

Create Webinar Registrant

Deletes all recordings for a specified meeting, with an option to move them to trash or permanently delete them.

Delete Meeting Recordings

Create Zoom meetings for new Calendly events

When you schedule a time to meet with someone, not adding that to your calendar means you very well might miss the meeting. If you have trouble remembering to add meetings to your calendar, let Zapier help! This integration automatically generates a new event in Google Calendar from the details of each new scheduled Calendly event.

Create Google Calendar events from new scheduled Calendly events

Never forget about your upcoming events again! Just set up this Zap to automatically receive an SMS alert before an event in your Google Calendar is about to start.

Using our built-in number, you can send a limited number of SMS / text messages. This is great for reminders!

SMS by Zapier

Send an SMS to a number. Notice that a successful action means that the SMS has been queued, not delivered.

Send SMS

Get SMS alerts for new approaching Google Calendar events

"Oh no, I'll be late!" Get rid of this occurance with this Slackbot Google Calendar integration that reminds you of upcoming events. You can customize what information shows up from Google Calendar, pulling in the start time, end time, location and more.

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

Get Slackbot notifications for approaching Google Calendar events

Save incoming files quickly and easily with this Google integration. Set it up, and when you label an email in Gmail, Zapier will save any attachments from that email into a specific Google Drive folder. This automation makes it easier to keep up with your most important files.

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.

Gmail

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

Google Drive is Google's file sync app that lets you store all of your files online alongside your Google Docs documents, and keep them synced with all of your devices.

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