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JULY 3, 2025

Combine user interfaces, data tables, and logic with thousands of apps to build and automate anything you can imagine. Sign up for free to use this app, and thousands more, with Zapier. That could be Slack , where your team works, or in a shared spreadsheet or doc. Update the project doc. Upload the call recording.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 18, 2025

We have documents, PDF files, emails, forms, and more… all scattered across different apps. Plus, when you automate your processes, you remove the risk of human error (like forgetting to move a file to its proper location on your Google Drive). Sign up for free to use this app, and thousands more, with Zapier. New to Zapier?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 29, 2025

5 things you should automate today Start automating I've been using and writing about graphic design apps since Photoshop was available on physical disks, and while I enjoy Canva, it isn't my go-to tool in most situations. It's an app that can fit almost any workflow or budget. It's not even the design app I use.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 4, 2025

We independently review every app we recommend in our best apps lists. How we evaluate and test apps Our best apps roundups are written by humans who've spent much of their careers using, testing, and writing about software. I didn't just read these apps' marketing materials and customer reviews.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 16, 2025

Zapier is the most connected AI orchestration platform—integrating with thousands of apps from partners like Google, Salesforce, and Microsoft. With it, you can store data, trigger automations, and connect all your organization's apps and workflows to your spreadsheet data. Here are five ways to get started.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 30, 2025

We independently review every app we recommend in our best apps lists. This year, to help you avoid analysis paralysis, I researched more than 50 free invoicing apps and spent several days testing the top contenders. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 1, 2025

Combine user interfaces, data tables, and logic with thousands of apps to build and automate anything you can imagine. Sign up for free to use this app, and thousands more, with Zapier. Keep a running log of your meetings Do you typically store meeting notes and other related content in a Google Doc or in a spreadsheet?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Get started But pair Claude with Zapier, and it becomes part of something bigger: an AI orchestration engine that connects your apps, data, and logic across your entire processes. Combine user interfaces, data tables, and logic with thousands of apps to build and automate anything you can imagine. It only takes a few minutes to set up.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 23, 2025

Build—and interact with—AI assistants in other apps Ever wanted to have your own AI assistant that can chat with team members or customers and solve issues in other apps, like Slack or Gmail? Check out OpenAI's pricing structure and other supported GPT-4 models.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 7, 2025

This agent processes lists of news article links, summarizes each story, and categorizes them into an organized report—all automatically delivered to Google Docs. The agent then compiles everything into a final report in Google Docs. You'll need to connect a Google Docs account. Learn more.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 20, 2025

AI note taking apps are fast becoming the standard because they remove the need to take hurried notes, allowing you to stay present in conversations. Fireflies at a glance Here's the short version: both apps have similar features and serve teams of all sizes, so you won't go wrong with either. Not so with Fathom.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

Connect your project management software to your other apps Make your job easier Even if the most meticulously laid plans are at the mercy of a capricious host with a skinny microphone, starting with a project plan template lays a foundation of order and direction in a world where the rules are made up and the points don't matter.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 3, 2025

I use some of these apps daily as a prompt to make my writing more concise and, hopefully, more enjoyable. I considered dozens of apps and did in-depth testing on the top contenders to narrow it down to these six apps. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 11, 2025

As a database and spreadsheet (respectively), Airtable and Google Sheets are a lot like this, but with way less vitamin C. I spent a bunch of time in each of these apps, and here's how the Airtable vs. Google Sheets showdown went.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

Mobility and accessibility: As a real estate agent, you're often on the move, which is why the CRMs below have a capable mobile website or a dedicated app. You can do even more with Follow Up Boss when you integrate it with Zapier , so you can automatically add leads to your CRM or send information to the other apps you use most.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

While Notion operates as a broader productivity tool to manage your projects, knowledge, and files, Obsidian works more as a highly flexible writing app. This process is unlike what you'd come across on any other note-taking app, which can make it confusing if you're not a deep tinkerer.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2013 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2014; Slack in 2015; took a break in 2016, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; and last year, 2017, was Coinbase. Here is the Google Doc where we tracked these.]

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 3, 2019

When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. I also use several living Google docs to maintain the minutes and the group agendas for my fixed weekly meetings. I use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. I also use several living Google docs to maintain the minutes and the group agendas for my fixed weekly meetings. I use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 22, 2019

Take a photo and make images rounded as the photo at the bottom of this blog post is? We communicate with our friends and family using videos, Gifs, images, texts all in one app. We know that apps are fully moving to the cloud. You want to take said photo and make it blurred or lightened so your words pop?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

CEO Dave Rogenmoser tells TechCrunch the funding will be put toward building out Jasper’s core products, improving the customer experience and bringing Jasper’s technology to more apps. Jasper leverages AI to generate content for blog articles, social media posts, website copy and more. ” Image Credits: Jasper.

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OkDork

JANUARY 27, 2023

Basically, to be a content remixer, you turn long-form content like YouTube videos and podcasts into blog posts, tweet threads, LinkedIn posts, Instagram Reels, and TikTok videos. Business Idea #13: Rideshare Delivery Apps It probably goes without saying, but this is one of the lowest-friction businesses.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

In all the podcasts I listened to and blogs I read, there was a consistent refrain: "You need to set aside time to think big." Get the Zapier blog in your inbox Subscribe So, I crowdsourced the answers. Keep a journal or a running Google Doc to jot down notes and reexamine them later. But what did it mean ?

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 24, 2023

When I started working at Zapier as a content specialist, I'd never heard of the design app Figma—much less used it. So I read lots of help docs, tinkered with the settings, and used it for all sorts of projects. If you aren't able to find mentors within your personal network, apps like BetterUp can connect you with someone.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

And I published this on my own startups blog. Dharmesh: So the kind of the beauty behind Google, the original idea that made it the powerhouse it is today is they said, okay, well how do we determine what the best set of results are to show for a keyword search, right? And we have this list of questions we're going to go through.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

So, if you're looking for an AI content generator that will help you write compelling copy, publish blog posts a lot quicker, and otherwise take some of the slow-paced typing out of writing, you've come to the right place. Now this isn't to say that none of these AI-powered writing apps are worth using.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 14, 2023

Explore now The Zapier ChatGPT plugin lets you connect thousands of apps (like Google Sheets, Gmail, or Slack) and automate tasks directly inside ChatGPT. This saves you the time and hassle of context switching, as you can just ask ChatGPT to perform a task in another app for you. No unnecessary writing needed from you.)

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

These apps do the heavy lifting: you don't need to know what CSS is or how to tinker with HTML. How we evaluate and test apps All of our best apps roundups are written by humans who've spent much of their careers using, testing, and writing about software. That said, Google Sites is easy to use.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

I'm using it as a writing assistant for a new blog I'm experimenting with, and it saves me hours every week. I've used it to generate emails, ads, blog posts, and product descriptions. Analogy maker I'm using analogies a lot in my new blog, and I like to think they make my writing stand out. Click Generate.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 22, 2025

Zapier is the most connected AI orchestration platform—integrating with thousands of apps from partners like Google, Salesforce, and Microsoft. You can connect Google Docs, Notion pages, static files, and even webpage links. If you're tracking team availability in a separate table, connect that too.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 3, 2025

Zapier is the most connected AI orchestration platform—integrating with thousands of apps from partners like Google, Salesforce, and Microsoft. Here's how it works: New names and numbers added to a Google Sheet trigger a Zap that initiates a phone call in Synthflow.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 13, 2025

AI writing generators once seemed like they were going to be the next big enterprise app category, but in reality, text generation is now more of a feature than a standalone business. Instead, there are thousands of apps that can generate anything from a text message to an email to a blog post to a white paper.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 10, 2025

You might get lucky, or you might spend 20 minutes chasing a vague memory of that one doc with the blue table. Combine user interfaces, data tables, and logic with thousands of apps to build and automate anything you can imagine. Sign up for free to use this app, and thousands more, with Zapier. Here's how. New to Zapier?

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 21, 2025

Built on OpenAI's AI models , the AI chatbot builder lets you create and train chatbots on your company data (think internal docs and website links) so you can incorporate your knowledge into its output. Combine user interfaces, data tables, and logic with thousands of apps to build and automate anything you can imagine.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

With Zapier's automated workflows (called Zaps), you can share recordings in other apps, send team notifications, and extract key insights from meetings—all automatically. Combine user interfaces, data tables, and logic with thousands of apps to build and automate anything you can imagine. New to Zapier?

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 2, 2025

With Zaps—our automated workflows—you can connect Browse AI to thousands of apps, enrich scraped data with AI, and send it exactly where it needs to go. Zapier is the most connected AI orchestration platform—integrating with thousands of apps from partners like Google, Salesforce, and Microsoft. Here's how to get started.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 16, 2025

Combine user interfaces, data tables, and logic with thousands of apps to build and automate anything you can imagine. Sign up for free to use this app, and thousands more, with Zapier. Use a Zap that monitors your shared Google Calendar for upcoming events and updates the channel topic automatically. Start here.

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