The Zapier Blog

JUNE 23, 2025

With multiple models at your disposal (from the latest o3 and o4-mini models to OpenAI's flagship multimodal GPT-4.1), it can write code, solve complex problems, carry out highly creative tasks, and even provide deep research in a fraction of the time it would take a human. Read more on how to effectively add AI to your Zapier workflows.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

And yes, when you work on certain types of tasks absolutely impacts your productivity. Once you understand your chronotype—and start using that understanding to schedule your daily tasks—your productivity will get the boost it needs. But timing isn't a one-size-fits-all approach. Table of contents What is a chronotype?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

Despite the initial confusion, building a CRM in Google Sheets can be a surprisingly effective way to manage customer relationships (and slightly less terrifying than whatever Skibidi Toilet is). Of course, you can also build your own CRM spreadsheet from scratch in Google Sheets if you prefer.

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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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The Zapier Blog

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. Create tasks from meetings and recordings We all have those routine tasks that we have to do after a meeting. Update the project doc.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 3, 2025

It means connecting AI tools—like ChatGPT , Claude , or custom models —to the apps and systems your team already uses, so they can help you automate repetitive tasks, surface better insights, and move faster. AI can knock out repetitive tasks in seconds. With Zapier, AI integration is about making your workflows work better.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 8, 2025

But there's a big difference here: ChatGPT is an AI chatbot that's flexible enough to handle just about any task you throw at it, while Jasper is a specialized AI marketing tool. Make your own custom AI chatbot Try Zapier Interfaces I've spent countless hours using both apps in my personal and professional life.

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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 19, 2025

Visual proof of ease: The demo walks viewers through exactly how tap-to-pay works in the app, making the product feel approachable and foolproof. Low barrier to entry : Positioning the offer as a "free quiz" that takes two minutes makes it sound more like a fun break than a serious task.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 30, 2025

Google Sheets boasts a staggering 10 million cell limit. Table of contents: Google Sheets cell limits, explained What you need to know about the 10 million cell limit What you should actually do if you need 10 million cells What if I need to reduce the number of cells in a Google spreadsheet?

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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

JUNE 15, 2025

Investing in a unified platform—where all your apps are connected via a shared system—can simplify data management, prevent silos, streamline communication, and reduce operating costs. Zoho has approximately one zillion apps that cover you across your organization, and here, I'll walk you through everything on offer.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

using a project management tool like Podio to track tasks and projects and not pen and paper. But its real strength is that, unlike a physical planner or to-do list, you can connect Podio to all your other business-critical apps with Zapier. Sign up for free to use this app, and thousands more, with Zapier.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 21, 2025

Here are the top 5 AI tools every small business should consider in 2025, along with how they can help busy professionals deal with a range of administrative tasks in areas of their companies to work smarter, not harder. Its a low-cost way to scale content output and improve service responsiveness.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 20, 2023

Build your own AI chatbot with no-code Here's how Allow me to save you a dozen Google searches (or ChatGPT prompts). ChatGPT is an app created by OpenAI that lets users interact with its AI models: GPT-3 (on the free version) and GPT-4 (in early access for paid users). Because ChatGPT isn't the only hat in the ring.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 9, 2025

These apps offer the AI, automation, documentation, and reporting features that you need to keep the lead pipes (the ones pronounced leed , not led ) flowing smoothly. 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.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

Google Calendar Google Calendar's new Find Busy Periods action makes scheduling easier than ever. Now, you can effortlessly search for all tasks within a project with the new Find All Tasks from Project action, making it easier to manage and process tasks individually. Perfect for speeding up dev workflows.

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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 26, 2025

Google's Gemini era has been in full swing over the past year, integrating its Gemini family of AI models into nearly every corner of its product suite—from Google search to Google Workspace and beyond. Of course, the most obvious place Google deploys AI is its chatbot (formerly called Bard). Sign up for free.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 30, 2025

Softr is a super flexible no-code app builder. But once your app is live, managing users, forms, emails, and data across platforms can cost you valuable time. Combine user interfaces, data tables, and logic with thousands of apps to build and automate anything you can imagine. And that's where automation can help.

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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.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 7, 2016

This Octane app, in many ways, would offer our loyal readers—and eventually, non-members—real-time information as it relates to the organization, as well as videos, social media, feature stories and other forms of vital communications. The app, in many ways, could do a million things … but we needed it to do a set few things perfectly.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Saves employee time and energy: Automation alone is enough to turn an otherwise seven-hour manual task into a five-minute one. That can expedite processes exponentially, allowing your employees to prioritize higher-value tasks that are more deserving of their energy and attention.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

You summarizes information from across the web and offers built-in apps, like search tools for Twitter, that allow users to complete tasks without having to leave the results page. Google, Bing), which have hundreds of millions of users, Socher draws attention to You’s retention rate. ” Image Credits: You.com.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

I'll get into that in more detail in a bit, but the basic distinction is that AI agents are capable of acting on their own to perform specific tasks within narrow guardrails, while agentic AI refers to systems of multiple AI agents collaborating to achieve complex goals. It totally depends on what it can do without your intervention.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 9, 2025

Zapier is the most connected AI orchestration platform—integrating with thousands of apps from partners like Google, Salesforce, and Microsoft. If you're already using other Zoho apps or want a simple, integrated AP solution, Zoho Books is a great fit. Once approved, invoices post directly to your Zoho Books ledger.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

Search engines like Google and Bing use their own safety mechanisms to reduce the chances unreliable content rises to the top of results, but these results can be gamed. In 2020, Pinterest leveraged a quirk of Google’s image search algorithm to surface more of its content in Google Image searches, according to The New Yorker.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 24, 2021

However, as I suspect most people reading this blog will likely be considering building an iPhone app or website, then you might not need to be that technical to do the first version. This will be a tedious and time-consuming task but well worth it. Research the hard numbers relating to the industry that you are in.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

By one metric , ChatGPT is the fastest-growing app in the world, having reached 100 million users within the first two months of launch. Associating with an app that visible, particularly one that’s in the red-hot generative AI space, is bound to get attention — a fact to which this article is a testament. .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2022

Forward it to a friend, share it on Twitter, and follow my personal blog for more content. Real estate investing app Fintor raises $6.2M After selling his last startup to Google, this founder now wants to automate mundane tasks with Relay. Elon Musk’s X app for ‘everything’ might be a non-starter in the US.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 6, 2021

Build a content website or add a blog. Much like an article on Google, if your pin matches a user’s search intent, it could show up months, even years, after you posted it! Using apps like Vyper.ai There are many user-friendly online quiz apps, but my favorite is Interact. Run giveaways or contests.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 18, 2023

Notion AI can do all the standard AI writing tool tasks, including summarizing or pulling key points from existing content, brainstorming, and writing new content from scratch. My AI blog writing experiment Using Notion's AI assistant is easy; just hit the space bar in a new line anywhere in Notion.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

That's why I was so excited to get my hands on Google's new AI chatbot, Google Bard. It's similar to other AI-powered text generation tools like ChatGPT , but it's supposed to pack the power of Google Search —where I spend most of my time—into a conversational bot. What is Google Bard?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Google, DuckDuckGo and other search engines help you find information from the web. A Y Combinator-backed app called Needl is helping users with that. Needl is a cross-platform application that lets you search across your local file system and accounts like Gmail, Google Drive, Google Calendar, Notion and Slack.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

No two service-based businesses are alike, which means it can be hard to find an appointment scheduling app that works for you. In my years as a small business owner, I've experimented with several appointment scheduling apps—and I've learned what makes a tool stand out from the rest.

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Red Rocket

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

That includes assets like your website, mobile apps and email database. Google, Microsoft), paid social ads (e.g., Google, Amazon, Walmart) and display advertising across various sites or programmatic advertising networks across the Internet. Paid Media Paid media is buying your way into getting discovered.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

Time blocking " Time blocking (I do it with Google Calendar) can be especially helpful because it allows you to easily see your entire schedule in one place, and it can help you stay focused, prioritize better, and be productive by creating a clear plan for your day. 9 time management strategies at work 1. Time estimation.

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