Automation
Workflows with Zapier, Make, Shortcuts and scripts that do the work for you.
17 tricks in this category
Most Teams Don't Know Slack Can Now Let You Watch AI Agents Code Live
Slack Code drops Claude, Devin, Copilot, and Vercel agents into dedicated channels where your whole team can watch diffs, preview output, and ship—without ever leaving Slack.
Most Developers Don't Know Claude Code Can Turn Slack Threads Into Tickets
Connect Claude Code to Slack through Model Context Protocol and it can read channel history, summarize the noise, and hand it off to your ticketing system—without ever leaving your editor.
Notion Just Let AI Agents Edit Your Databases Directly — No Zapier Needed
Notion's new External Agents API turns Claude Code, Cursor, and other AI tools into @-mentionable teammates that read and write to your databases in real time. The automation middleman is gone.
Most Zapier Users Don't Know Their AI Can Edit Their Database Straight From Chat
Zapier Tables can now act as a live data layer your AI agent reads and updates in real time—so Claude or ChatGPT can add, edit, and query rows without you ever opening the database.
Most Power Automate Users Don't Know Desktop Flows Can Now Self-Heal When They Break
A new preview feature lets Power Automate desktop flows detect a failing UI action and fix it automatically—no human babysitting required. Most teams are still writing manual error handlers.
Most Notion Users Don't Know Agents Can Now Fire Off the Second a Meeting Note Is Summarized
Notion quietly added a trigger that runs Custom Agents the instant AI Meeting Notes finish. The busywork you used to do after every call can now happen on its own.
Most Slack Users Don't Know Claude Tag Can Hand Off Tasks Mid-Stream
Claude Tag joins your Slack channel as a shared teammate that keeps working while you're away — and lets one person start a task and another pick it up without re-explaining a thing.
Most Workspace Users Haven't Tried Google's New 'Describe It and It Builds It' Automation Tool
Google's Workspace Studio lets you type a sentence like 'when a form is submitted, save the attachment to Drive and draft a follow-up email'—and Gemini builds the entire cross-app workflow for you. No code, no extra cost.
Most Notion Teams Don't Know Rollups Replace Their Zapier Bill
Notion's rollup field can auto-sum, average, and count data across linked databases in real time—on every plan, at no extra cost. Teams paying for external automations rarely realize it's already built in.
Most Google Workspace Users Don't Know NotebookLM Can Run Inside Automated Workflows
A new 'Ask NotebookLM' step turns your curated knowledge base into a hands-free workflow engine that reads, reasons, and replies while you sleep.
Most Zapier Users Don't Know You Can Just Describe an Automation in Plain English Now
Zapier Copilot turns a sentence like 'When an international Shopify order comes in, check inventory and notify shipping in Teams' into a working automation—and it gets smarter every time you edit it.
Notion Can Fill In Database Fields By Itself—And Most Teams Miss It
Before you pay for another Zapier seat, know this: Notion's built-in AI can classify, summarize, and extract data into your database properties automatically—no external automation tool required.
Most Notion Teams Still Pay for Zapier—When Notion Can Do It Natively
Notion's database automations can trigger AI summaries, translations, and extractions the moment a property changes—no Zapier required. Up to 60% of your Notion-touching workflows may be redundant.
Most Google Sheets Users Don't Know It Can Turn Messy Notes Into Clean Tables Instantly
Paste a wall of scattered notes, bullet points, or raw JSON into Google Sheets and let Gemini rebuild it as a tidy, properly named table — no manual columns required.
Most Google Workspace Users Don't Know Gemini Can Auto-Triage Their Inbox
Google quietly built a native automation engine into Workspace that labels, summarizes, and even drafts replies to your email using Gemini — no Zapier or Make required.
Most Notion Users Don't Know It Can Fill Entire Database Records by Itself
Notion's AI can do far more than rewrite paragraphs — it can intelligently populate whole database rows from a single field, automating data entry for CRMs, hiring pipelines, and project trackers.
Build a Robot That Files Every Email Attachment For You — No Code, 15 Minutes
With a free Make account, every invoice, contract or report that lands in Gmail gets saved, renamed and organized in Google Drive automatically.