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Tasks can come from everywhere, and it's easy to end up feeling like everything is top priority. Here's how to automate your to-do list to streamline your workflows.

Get it done: 6 ways to automate to do list apps

Your emails always mean work, so why not automatically turn them into tasks on your favorite to-do app? That's what this integration is for. It turns each new email you receive on Microsoft Outlook into a task in Microsoft To-Do. Get more done with a little help from automation.

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

Custom Actions (Beta)

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

API Request (Beta)

Microsoft To Do is an intelligent task management app that makes it easy to plan and manage your day. With its intelligent Suggestions, To Do removes all the clutter and empowers you to focus on what's important, when it's important.

Completed Task

New List

New Task

Updated Task

Find a Task

Finds a task by title, or creates one if none is found.

Find or Create Task

Create List

Create Task

Complete Task

Create tasks in Microsoft To-Do from new Microsoft Outlook emails

Your Gmail labels keep your inbox neat and tidy, but until now they couldn't stop task list management from adding to your already full workload. This integration changes all that, automatically generating new tasks in Microsoft To-Do when you receive a new email and label it within two days. Stay organized and stay on top of to-dos, all with a single action.

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 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.

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

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

New Starred Email

New Thread

Find or Send Email

Add Label to Email

Delete Email

Create Draft

Create a draft reply to an existing email.

Create Label

Remove Label From Email

Create Microsoft To-Do tasks from new labeled emails in Gmail  [Business Gmail Accounts Only]

Slack is where your team doles out tasks. Google Tasks is where you manage personal tasks. To create new items in Google Tasks right from Slack, use this integration and next time you save a message a Google Tasks item will be created.

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

Google Tasks is a very simple task list. Works inside Gmail, Android, and Calendar seamlessly.

Triggers when a task is completed in a specific task list.

New Completed Task

Triggers when a new task list is created.

New Task List

Find Task

List all tasks by task list, results will be in a line-item format.

Get Tasks by List

Find or Create Task.

Create Task List

Update Task

Create Google Tasks items from new saved Slack messages

To create new tasks in Todoist right from Slack, use this integration. The next time you save a message in Slack, a Todoist task will be automatically created, saving you time for more important work.

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!).

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

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

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

Add new saved Slack messages to Todoist as tasks

Save important emails without cluttering your inbox with this integration. Whenever you add a specific label to an email in Gmail, this Zap will automatically add it to a Notion database.

A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team.

Notion

Triggers when a new item is created in a database.

New Database Item

Triggers when a new (non-database item) page is created your workspace or selected subpage.

New Page

Triggers when an item in a selected database is updated.

Updated Database Item

Updated Page

Triggers when a page or database item is updated. Optionally select a parent page or database to monitor.

Updated Page or Database Item

Retrieves the children of a block, with any text content rendered as Markdown.

Retrieve Block Children

Retrieves a list of un-resolved comments from a Page as line-items.

Get Page Comments

Searches for an item in a database by property.

Find Database Item

Find Page (By Title)

Retrieves the comments for the provided page, or creates one if no comments are found.

Find or Create Comment

Searches for a Database Item matching the provided query, or creates one if it does not exist.

Get it done: 6 ways to automate to do list apps

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