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2017-01-11-using-ifttt-and-google-calendar-and-recurring-tasks.md

Using IFTTT to handle future and recurring tasks

  • Store the tasks in our "GFR Tasks" Google calendar.

    • Relatively fine grained control over dates of tasks (e.g. second Wednesday of each month)

  • IFTTT applet turns these events into cards in Trello

    • Our applets
    • "If any event starts on GFR Tasks, then create a card in - Go Free Range board"
    • Fires 15 minutes before the start date of a task, i.e. 23:45 for all day tasks

  • Manually assign cards and add due dates in Trello

    • Randomly assign one of us using %w(j c).shuffle.first

Problems

  • We can't randomly assign someone automatically using the IFTTT recipe.

  • It doesn't seem to be possible to set a due date using IFTTT.

  • We don't seem to get any notification if IFTTT fails to run at a particular time.

  • Does anyone do anything similar? Maybe using a different tool? Zapier? Something else?

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