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Use Airtable to Make Your Zaps Run When You Want and How You Want

Zapier is a useful tool all on its own, but connecting it with an Airtable Database will give you more control over how and when your automations run. In this post, we’ll show you a few tips for getting started with using Airtable as an Operational Database for your Zaps, and demonstrate how you can use Airtable views to trigger automations based on any conditions that you want.
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Build Decks and Presentations in Seconds with One Simple Automation

Templates make it much easier to produce your frequently-needed documents on the fly. Whether you need to make meeting agendas, kickoff presentations, or project proposals, you can put together your templated presentations even faster by building them with Zapier and Airtable. We'll show you how to do it step-by-step in this post.
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How Preparation, Performance, and Updates Define Our Day

Everything that we do in our day-to-day work can be broken down into three categories: preparation, performance, and updates. Understanding how to plan your time around these categories will let you unlock greater productivity and satisfaction with your work each day.
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Using Automated Work to Support Your Team

Integrating automation into your business involves much more than just building a few Zaps. To enjoy the full benefits of automation, you need to create an automated infrastructure that supports the people at your business instead of replacing them.
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Save Time and Reduce Errors with Asset Templates

We spend much of our time work making similar documents over and over again. Creating templates for these commonly-needed assets can save time, reduce errors, and results in a better final product. It can even lay the groundwork for automating the process of creating assets.
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Keep Track of Your Automations with Documentation

In this post, we'll show you how we use documentation to easily track and maintain our automations.
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Leave the Robotic Work to the Robots

Much of the monotonous and unfulfilling work that we waste our time on could be performed by software. In this post, we'll explain how you can identify the robotic tasks that are cluttering up your workflow, and show you how you can start automating those tasks.
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Mindful Tasks: Making Your Work Productive and Fulfilling

What work is actually worth doing ourselves, and what should be left to the robots? In this blog, we explore the concept of Mindful Tasks; tasks that are fulfilling, create value, and cannot be performed by automated systems (at least, not yet).
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How Business Processes Translate to Value

Much of the work that we spend our time on could be done automatically. In this post, we take a look at how to break down your business processes and find the robotic tasks that are taking up too much of your time.

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