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Mornings, esp. early mornings are my nirvana time. The earlier it is the higher my focus and the less susceptible to distractions I am. Needless to say remote work has helped me leverage this in fantastic ways. My daily ritual is: 5am - Get up and make coffee, then sit down and quickly process through the All Unreads of slack. I star anything I need to deal with later and it creates a task in my Task List. I then immediately jump into the Q. Because Slack is quieter and my focus is higher I can turn over more replies, etc than any other point in my day. I stop between 7-7:15 to get my kids up and off to school. Then I

Over the past 3-4 years I have been maintaining some variation of the Uberman sleep cycle, meaning I take 2-4 deep sleep naps throughout the day instead of 1 long sleep. I find that it gives me more time in a day and I feel more alert. It also means each day feels like 2, with a day and night phase.

I have another weird schedule today: One of my friends (who married me and Kerry) is in the area with his polka band for Wurstfest, which needs to be googled. I

fyi @james_freaking_carr tomorrow will be a weird schedule day for me - I

@group-data I gotta weird schedule tomorrow 1) wife does Friday community service so I have drop-off of both kids 2) preschooler has Father’s Day thing at school at 12:30 - 1:30 CT (conflicts partially with Looker meeting) 3) preschooler has half day, ending at 1:30 CT So I

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Right now, working from home means adhering to a ridiculously strict schedule.

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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

Sometimes there's no time to let the team know you're busy during back to back calls. Zapier can help ensure your Slack status is up to date during your next meeting—or whatever event—once you set up this automation. From then on, Zapier will set your Slack status to indicate you're busy 5 minutes before the Google Calendar event starts, and clear the status once it ends, saving you from the trouble of awkwardly trying to tell the team you can't get back to them at the moment.  

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

Update Slack status during new Google Calendar events

When you're on the go, a quick voice command can be much easier that typing. We can help make sure your team knows what you're up to, even if you leave your keyboard - set up this integration and we'll do the rest. Once it's active, ask your Google Assistant to set your Slack status, reply with what you want it to be, and we'll update your status with text according to what you said. Your status will then be updated - just don't forget to change it back when you're done! 

Google Assistant is an artificial intelligence-powered virtual assistant developed by Google. You can use this Google Assistant integration to manage information in other apps using simple voice commands.

Google Assistant (Legacy)

Triggers when invoked via Google Assistant

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