Ideas & Everyday Automations articles

Ideas & Everyday Automations 254 Sending website form entries to a spreadsheet automatically There are three roads for every enquiry from a form on your site to end up in a spreadsheet: a Google Form in place...
Ideas & Everyday Automations 247 Zapier, Make or n8n: which kind of automation tool suits a small business All three do the same job: when something happens in one application, they do something in another, without you...
Ideas & Everyday Automations 251 Sending alerts to Telegram from your website or a script To get a notice on your phone whenever something happens on your site, Telegram is one of the simplest roads: you...
Ideas & Everyday Automations 299 Recurring invoices and payment reminders: automating the follow-up for a service business In a service business (retainers, maintenance, monthly fees) it pays to automate issuing the invoice and the payment...
Ideas & Everyday Automations 282 Posting to social networks automatically: what automation can and cannot do You can make every new article on your site produce a social post, but the best way to do it is to automate the...
Ideas & Everyday Automations 253 Saving files to Google Drive automatically: form attachments, exports and backups There are four ways to take files from your site or your server into Google Drive without dragging them by hand: a...
Ideas & Everyday Automations 256 Airtable or Notion behind a simple automation: tokens, sharing and limits Airtable and Notion work well as a small “database” that your team sees and edits, and that an automation (n8n, a...
Ideas & Everyday Automations 247 Getting an alert when your site goes down: a simple uptime check To know your site is down before a customer tells you, you need something that visits it from outside, now and then,...
Ideas & Everyday Automations 255 Automatic file transfers: scheduled SFTP and rsync from a script To send or fetch files every night without opening FileZilla, use a cron job that runs the sftp command with an...
Ideas & Everyday Automations 272 Which tasks are worth automating first, and how to map one before you build The tasks worth automating are those that are frequent, predictable, boring and low-risk: copying data from one...
Ideas & Everyday Automations 269 Adding a human approval step to an automation A human approval step is a point in the flow where the automation stops, shows a person what it is about to do, and...