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Start Automating by Finding the Robotic Tasks in Your Workflows

Automation has nearly unlimited potential, which can make it difficult to know where to start. If you're not sure where to begin with automation, you can start by identifying which parts of your workflow involve C.A.S.T. skills and which are better left to the robots. Read the full post to learn more.
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Enhancing Your Existing Workflows with Automation

Automating your workflows doesn't mean you need to completely rebuild the processes that are already getting the results you want. At XRay, we believe that automations should support your successful workflows, and in this quick article, we'll explain how it works.
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Quickly Identify and Fix Zap Run Errors

Zapier is a great tool for building automations and saving some time at work, but as with any software, you'll sometimes encounter problems. Having a reliable process for diagnosing and fixing your Zapier errors will help you to get you automations back up and running in no time.
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Create a Permanent Zoom Recording Archive for Free

Your company Zoom meetings can be a treasure trove of useful information that you may want to access in the future, but for many smaller teams, Zoom's unlimited cloud storage plans are simply too expensive. With one simple Zap, you can automatically upload your Zoom recordings to YouTube to create a free archive of your meetings.
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Create an Alternative to Hootsuite or Buffer with Automation Tools

Scheduling your social media posts in advance makes it much easier to stay on top of a regular posting schedule and keep your audience engaged. If you're looking for a more flexible alternative to tools like Buffer and Hootsuite, you can build an automated social media calendar in Airtable and Zapier. In this blog post, we'll walk you through it step by step.
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Never Lose Track of a Slack Link Again with this Simple Automation

Sharing links with your team in Slack is quick and convenient, but it's easy to lose track of those links as more and more messages keep pouring in. With this simple Zapier automation, you can save all of your shared links in Slack to an Airtable database, making it easy to find them whenever you need to.
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Map Out Your Zapier or Integromat Automations in Just 3 Easy Steps

Planning out your automations in Lucidchart is a simple and effective way to document your automations for yourself and for your team. In this post, we'll show you how we use Lucidchart at XRay.Tech for business process mapping before we build our autos.
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Start Building an Operational Database by Transferring Your Spreadsheets to Airtable

Airtable is the best platform to build your automated operational database on. If your automations are running out of Google Sheets or Microsoft Excel, this blog post will show you how you can convert them to Airtable databases in just four quick steps.
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How Simple Emojis Add Vital Information to Your Automations

Emojis are a fun way to add a bit of personal expression to any text, but they also serve a vital purpose in automation. In this post, we'll show you how we use Emojis at XRay to mark up our databases and create more context in Zapier.

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