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When you’re building an editorial calendar, sometimes the simplest way is the best way. And the simplest layout? A calendar. With this basic layout, your team can track content publish dates and promotions.

How to Keep Your Team on Track with a Simple Editorial Calendar

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.

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.

Custom Actions (Beta)

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

API Request (Beta)

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

"Heads up! Team meeting starts in 10 minutes." This Zap will be sure you and your team are ready for the next event with a Slack notification, automatically sent ten minutes before any new scheduled event starts on your Google Calendar. 

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

Send Slack channel messages for new Google Calendar events

Never forget your upcoming events! With this Zap, you'll trigger a custom email to a specified recipient before an event in your Google Calendar is about to start.

Send and receive email via a custom Zapier email address at "zapiermail.com". This is great for triggering off of emails and sending custom emails. (Max of 10 email sends per hour.)

Have direct access to your own email servers? Check out our IMAP and SMTP services!

Email by Zapier

Triggers when an email is forwarded to your own custom **zapiermail.com** address.

New Inbound Email

Triggers when an email that you've enabled read receipts on via our `Send Outbound Email` trigger is opened.

New Read Receipt

Send up to 5 emails per day on Free or Trial Zapier plans, or up to 10 emails per hour on paid Zapier plans from a custom **zapiermail.com** address.

Send Outbound Email

Send email reminders for new approaching Google Calendar events

Instead of receiving email reminders for a calendar event, use Zapier to get notifications on ChatWork before the calendar event starts. Once you set up this Chatwork - Google Calendar integration, you will never scramble to prepare for meetings. 

Keep your team focused and working together with Chatwork's team chat, tasks, video chats, and more in one place.

Chatwork

Create Room

Post a new message to a specific group chat in ChatWork.

Send Message

Adds a new task in a specific group chat.

Create Task

Create ChatWork message from Google Calendar events

Tracking multiple or team calendars can get complicated, but Zapier's Google Calendar-Email integration makes it a breeaze. From the moment you set it up, every new event created on the Google Calendar you indicate will automatically trigger a new email notification from Zapier's native service, complete with all the details you need to save the date.

Get email notifications for new Google Calendar events 

Want to get notified when a new event is scheduled? Now you can with this Google Calendar to Slack automation. Set it up, and each time a new event is created in Google Calendar, Zapier will send you a direct message in Slack. You'll never forget an important event again!

Get Slackbot notifications for new Google Calendar events

You can't afford to miss out on important events. Zapier can let you know whenever there's a new date to save: It will trigger with each new event created on Google Calendar, automatically sending you a Pushover notification with the event details so you don't miss a beat.

Pushover is a simple push notification service to instantly send alerts to Android and iOS devices.

Pushover

This Action will generate a Pushover notification to your subscribed devices

Send a Pushover Notification

Get Pushover notifications for new Google Calendar events

If you've ever needed to connect emails to Google Calendar, Zapier will automatically create a new Google Calendar quick add event for every new inbound email. 

Create new Google Calendar event from inbound email

Follow-ups, debriefs—events that always come after another. What if you don't want to clutter your calendar ahead of time? Zapier's Google Calendar integration has the answer. It will trigger at the pre-set time before each one of your events start, automatically setting up a new detailed event on a new Google Calendar—or even account—in response.

Create events when other events are about to start on Google Calendar 

Use Todoist to keep track of all you need to accomplish? But rely on Google Calendar to keep your schedule clear and accessible? Using this integration, you can automatically create a Google Calendar event from an incomplete Todoist task. 

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

Update Task

Add incomplete Todoist tasks to Google Calendar

There may be times when you need to catalog events from your calendar, and a spreadsheet can be a great way to do that. Zapier will automatically create a new Google Sheets row for every new event you create in Google Calendar. 

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.

How to Keep Your Team on Track with a Simple Editorial Calendar

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