Automations → Labelled email → task in the log → reminder

EMAIL → TASK

Labelled email → task in the log → reminder

Tag an email with one label and it becomes a task with a due date and an alert. One screen for everything that is waiting.

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The problem

The business’s real tasks live in emails. "Remind me", "get back to him Tuesday", "need to send a quote" — and there is no single place that shows them all.

What happens when it runs

  1. Gmail detects a new email carrying the "task" label
  2. A row in the task log: sender, subject, link to the email, due = two days out
  3. A Telegram message: "New task — {subject}" with the link

The tools inside

Before you start

Three things to have ready before importing, or Make will ask and you will have to leave halfway:

  • The Gmail label name
  • Spreadsheet id
  • Telegram Chat ID

Sheet templates

The file maps columns by position. Start from exactly these headers, in this order — a column in the wrong place writes a phone number into the email column.

  • Task log · date | from | subject | link | due | status Download ↓

How to import (2 minutes)

  1. In Make: Scenarios → Create a new scenario
  2. At the bottom, the three dots (⋯) → Import Blueprint → choose the file you downloaded
  3. Click every module with an exclamation mark: choose your connection (Google, Telegram) — Make creates one in a click if you have none
  4. Replace every value in double curly braces ({{…}}) with your own from the list above
  5. Run once with a test row in the sheet. Only when it passes — Schedule and ON

The video

What does not work in it

  • Make polls Gmail on a schedule (15 minutes by default). It is not instant.
  • The label has to be applied by hand. Auto-labelling by keyword produces tasks out of junk.

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