Why waste hours of your time doing menial tasks when you can automate them? That’s the beauty of automation softwares like Zapier. 

Zapier is a software tool that allows you to connect one type of software to another. Say you receive an email that has tasks laid out from your boss. Why manually insert them into your notes by hand when you could connect Gmail to your notes with Zapier?

Maybe you want to send up a follow-up email to multiple leads. You can automate that too with Zapier.

The options are nearly endless. But in this post, I’m going to cover two types of automation. 

Connecting Google Calendar to Trello

Now that I’ve activated this Zap, whenever I add an event to my Google Calendar, a card is created and added to one of my lists in Trello. The details- including title, time, and any links involved- are added to the card, ready for me to move to one of my daily lists. This saves me time, as I don’t have to write out my tasks in two different places.

Connecting Toggl to Google Sheets

Toggl is a software tool that tracks your work hours. You can label the project, task, client, whether it’s billed or not billed, etc., and measure the amount time you spend working. It’s a simple way to track your hours and Zapier allows for automatic time entry into a Google Sheet document, so you don’t have to manually input time, date, etc.

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Automation is the way of the future. By leaving mundane and redundant time-consuming tasks to a system like Zapier, it can save you time in your workday that you can utilize for the tasks you need full focus for. Connecting software is like having your own admin worker at your side, and it’s a valuable skill to have.