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Connect Google Docs to Slack

Documents get written in Google Docs, but the team hears about them in Slack. Connect the two to draft reports, proposals, notes and SOPs as Docs and post a short summary with the link in the right channel, so nobody has to go looking.
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Ideas

What you can do with Google Docs and Slack

Reports, proposals, notes and onboarding docs written to Google Docs, with a summary and link posted in Slack. These are ready-made starting points. Anything else you can describe works too.
The moment it happensAI

Draft RFP answers in a Google Doc and share them in Slack

Send an RFP questionnaire to a link and get a Google Doc with a draft answer to every question, based on your company profile, posted to #sales for review.

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WeeklyAI

Write a weekly competitor report into Google Docs and share it in Slack

Every Monday a research report on your competitors is written into a Google Doc, with a short summary and link posted in Slack.

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The moment it happensAI

Turn deal form entries into proposal Google Docs

Submit a deal form and a client proposal is written from your template Doc, saved as its own copy, and the link is posted to Slack.

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DailyAI

Turn event feedback into a report doc and Slack highlights

Feedback responses are analysed into a Google Doc report, and the top three insights are posted to your Slack channel.

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Every 30 minutesAI

Turn process notes into SOP documents

Drop rough process notes into a Drive folder and get a step-by-step SOP Google Doc, announced to the team in Slack.

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The moment it happens

Create a client onboarding Doc and announce it in Slack

Each new client form creates an onboarding Google Doc from your template, filled with their details, and posts the link to #clients in Slack.

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The moment it happensAI

Turn meeting transcripts into notes in Google Docs and Slack

When a meeting transcript is ready, notes and action items are saved to a Google Doc and the summary is posted in Slack.

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WeeklyAI

Write a weekly report Doc from your numbers and post it to Slack

Every Monday last week's numbers become a written report in Google Docs, and the key points and link are posted to Slack.

See how it works Your own logic

Any other automation you can describe in words

Your own rules, schedule and AI steps with Google Docs and Slack, plus any other app. Describe it and your assistant builds it.

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Build your own

Build any Google Docs and Slack automation you can describe

The ideas above are ready-made starting points, not a fixed list. Describe what should happen between Google Docs and Slack in your own words, with your conditions, other apps or an AI step, and your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.

  • Your own rules

    Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.

  • Any number of apps

    One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.

  • AI where it helps

    Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.

  • On a schedule or on each event

    Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.

For example, ask your assistant

Every Friday, read the Docs our team edited this week in the Projects folder and post one Slack message to #team summarizing each in two sentences.

When someone reacts to a Slack message with a memo emoji, append that message and its link to our Decisions Doc.

Use cases

Why people connect Google Docs and Slack

How the two apps work together

  • ClickRuntime checks Docs or Drive folders on a schedule for new or edited documents and posts to Slack.
  • Slack events sent to a trigger link can create or append to Docs.
  • Doc links and summaries are posted to the channels you choose.

  • Product team announces new specs

    New Docs in a specs folder are posted to #product with an AI summary and link.

  • Manager keeps meeting notes from Slack

    A thread or channel can be summarized into a Google Doc after a discussion.

  • Ops creates incident reports

    An incident channel's messages can be written into a Doc from a postmortem template.

  • Support answers from a knowledge Doc

    A slash command can look up answers in a Google Doc and reply in Slack.

More apps

Google Docs, Slack and other apps in one automation

An automation isn't limited to two apps. Add the next step in another app and it runs as part of the same automation.

New Docs in a folder announced

When a Doc is added to our Drive Proposals folder, post it to #sales in Slack with a summary.

Specs linked to Jira epics

When a spec Doc is posted in Slack, create a Jira epic with the Doc link.

Docs mirrored in Notion

Post new policy Docs to #general in Slack and add a page with the link to our Notion wiki.

Setup

Connect Google Docs and Slack once

Every idea on this page uses the same two connections, so you set them up once. If one is missing, your assistant tells you and links to the right place.

Google Docs

Documents

  1. At console.cloud.google.com, enable the Google Docs API in your project. Enable the Google Drive API too if you want to copy templates, export PDFs or list folders.
  2. Under IAM & Admin → Service Accounts, create a service account and add a JSON key.
  3. Share the doc, or the folder it lives in, with the service account's email as Editor.
  4. In the ClickRuntime dashboard, save the JSON key as a secret on Connections & secrets.

Slack

Team chat

  1. At api.slack.com/apps, create a new app from scratch in your workspace.
  2. Under OAuth & Permissions, add the bot scopes the automation needs, such as chat:write, channels:read and channels:history.
  3. In the ClickRuntime dashboard, open Connections, choose Slack and enter your app's details, then install it to your workspace.
  4. In each channel the automation should use, type /invite @your-app-name.

FAQ

Questions about connecting Google Docs and Slack

Who can open the documents linked in Slack?
Whoever the document is shared with. Saving new documents in a shared folder means the people in the channel can open the link straight away.
Does the whole document get posted in Slack?
No. Slack gets a short summary and the link, so the channel stays readable and the full text stays in the document.
Can it use our own Docs template?
Yes. New documents can be copied from a template you choose, with your headings and formatting, and filled in from there.
Can it post to a private channel?
Yes. Invite the ClickRuntime Slack app to the private channel, and it can post there.
Can it post when a Doc is edited, not just created?
Yes. It can check modified times and post a summary of edits.
Can it write a whole Slack thread into a Doc?
Yes. It can read the thread and write the messages or a summary into a Doc.
How often does it check Docs?
As often as every 5 minutes.

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