On a schedule

Get today's calendar in a Slack message every morning

Each weekday at 7am a Slack message lists your meetings for the day, so you see your schedule where you already work.

Runs: On a schedule
Apps: Google Calendar, Slack
AI: Not needed
Access: Calendar read; Slack chat:write

Send this to your assistant

Create a ClickRuntime automation: every weekday at 7am, post today's Google Calendar events to my Slack DM.

Paste it into your assistant. It tells you what it will send or change before it runs live.

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Why use it

Why teams use this automation

An engineering manager lives in Slack. His calendar fills up with one-to-ones, planning and interviews, and he regularly notices a meeting only when the reminder pops up two minutes before.

A message in Slack each morning with the full day gives him time to prepare, move things around or block focus time. The schedule shows up in the tool he already has open.

What you get out of it

Your day where you work
No switching to the calendar app to see what is next. The list sits in Slack all day.
Fewer surprise meetings
Seeing every meeting first thing means nothing catches you off guard after lunch.
Easy to plan focus time
Gaps between meetings are obvious in a list, so you can protect them for deep work.
Nothing to maintain
It reads your calendar as it is. Changes made yesterday evening are reflected in the morning.

How it works

What happens, step by step

Every weekday at 7am, ClickRuntime reads today's events from your Google Calendar.
It lists each meeting with its start time, title and video link.
The list is sent to you as a direct message in Slack.

Before it runs live

Connect Google Calendar
Connect Slack, then invite the app to the channel (type /invite @ClickRuntime there)

What you get

RunsOn a schedule

Get today's calendar in a Slack message every morningtoday, 9:00Succeeded

Slack · Direct messageToday: 09:00 Standup · 11:30 1:1 with Alex · 14:00 Acme integration review

Build your own

Need it to work differently?

This template is a starting point. Copy the prompt and change it, or describe a different automation from scratch, with your own conditions, more apps or an AI step. 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.

Changes you can ask for

Run it at a different time, more or less often, or only on weekdays
Add an AI step, for example to summarize, sort or draft a reply
Add another app, for example also send it to Google Sheets
Combine it with other Google Calendar and Slack steps into one automation

Under the hood

The code that runs this automation

This is the Python script that runs each time the automation starts. Your AI assistant writes it for you when you send the prompt, and you allow each step in your assistant. To change how the automation works, describe the change to your assistant and it updates the script for you. For every function it can use, see the script reference.

daily_calendar_summary_in_slack.pyexample

from datetime import datetime, time, timezone
from google.oauth2.credentials import Credentials
from googleapiclient.discovery import build
from slack_sdk import WebClient
from clickruntime import on_trigger, credentials

MY_SLACK_ID = "U0123456789"

@on_trigger
def run(event):
    today = datetime.now(timezone.utc).date()
    cal = build("calendar", "v3", credentials=Credentials(credentials.connection("google", "work")), cache_discovery=False)
    items = cal.events().list(calendarId="primary", singleEvents=True, orderBy="startTime",
                              timeMin=datetime.combine(today, time.min, timezone.utc).isoformat(),
                              timeMax=datetime.combine(today, time.max, timezone.utc).isoformat()).execute()["items"]
    lines = [f"{e['start'].get('dateTime', 'All day')[11:16] or 'All day'} {e.get('summary', '(no title)')} {e.get('hangoutLink', '')}"
             for e in items]
    text = "Today:\n" + "\n".join(lines) if lines else "Your calendar is clear today."
    WebClient(token=credentials.connection("slack", "work")).chat_postMessage(channel=MY_SLACK_ID, text=text)
    return {"events": len(items)}

FAQ

Common questions

Is the message private?

Yes. It is sent to your own direct messages, so only you see it.

Does it include meeting links?

Yes. Video call links on events are included, so you can join from the message.

What about days with no meetings?

You get a short message saying your calendar is clear.

What permissions does it need?

Calendar read; Slack chat:write. Nothing else in your accounts is used.

Does it need AI?

No. It runs without AI, so it doesn't use your plan's AI allowance.

How many runs does it use?

One run each time it runs (on a schedule). Checks that find nothing to do and stop right away aren't counted.

Can I change how it works?

Yes. Describe the change to your AI assistant, for example a different schedule, channel or filter. It updates the automation, tests it and tells you what changed.

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