On a schedule

Get an evening list of what you finished

At night you get an email of everything you completed that day, grouped by project.

Runs: On a schedule
Apps: Todoist
AI: Not needed
Access: read

Send this to your assistant

Create a ClickRuntime automation: every evening at 9pm, email me the Todoist tasks I completed today, grouped by project.

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

At the end of a long day it is common to feel you got nothing done, even if you closed fifteen Todoist tasks across three projects. Without a record, you cannot answer a manager asking what you did, or write a stand-up note the next morning. People rummage through the Completed view and try to reconstruct it from memory.

Each evening, this collects the tasks you completed since the start of that day, groups them by project and sends you an email in a tidy list. It runs on a schedule, so the summary is waiting after you log off.

It is useful for freelancers who bill by task, and for anyone who reports daily progress to a lead. Because it arrives after you log off, you do not need to remember anything at the moment you close the laptop.

What you get out of it

A tidy answer to what you did today
The evening email lists completed tasks under each project, so a stand-up note or status message to your lead is a copy and paste job, not a memory exercise. It takes under a minute to turn into a message.
A feeling of progress on bad days
Seeing twelve finished items written out counters the sense that the day vanished. That small boost matters for motivation, particularly when the biggest task of the day slipped. That matters most when the biggest task of the day slipped.
Material for invoices and timesheets
Freelancers can use the project grouping to see what went into a client's work that day. It speeds up billing and reduces disputes about what was actually delivered. It speeds up billing and avoids arguments later.
Easier to spot where time went
If a project that should have taken the afternoon has nothing completed, the digest makes that visible the same evening, while you can still adjust tomorrow's plan. You can correct course while the details are still fresh in your mind.
A searchable daily history
Each digest stays in your inbox, so you can search months later for when a task was finished. That is quicker than scrolling Todoist's completed list and works even if you archive projects.

How it works

What happens, step by step

Every evening at 9, ClickRuntime collects the Todoist tasks you completed today.
It groups them by project.
You get one email listing everything you finished, with the total in the subject line.

Before it runs live

Connect Todoist

What you get

RunsOn a schedule

Get an evening list of what you finishedtoday, 9:00Succeeded

Email · Done today: 9 tasksWork ✓ Send Acme the revised quote ✓ Review Northwind onboarding doc

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 Slack
Combine it with other Todoist 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_completed_tasks_digest.pyexample

from collections import defaultdict
from datetime import datetime, timezone
from clickruntime import on_trigger, notify, http, credentials

API = "https://api.todoist.com/api/v1"

@on_trigger
def run(event):
    headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer " + credentials.connection("todoist", "main")}
    now = datetime.now(timezone.utc)
    start = now.replace(hour=0, minute=0, second=0, microsecond=0)
    items = http.get(f"{API}/tasks/completed/by_completion_date", headers=headers, params={
        "since": start.strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ"), "until": now.strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ"), "limit": 200,
    }).json()["items"]
    projects = {p["id"]: p["name"] for p in http.get(f"{API}/projects", headers=headers).json()["results"]}
    groups = defaultdict(list)
    for t in items:
        groups[projects.get(t["project_id"], "Other")].append(f"  ✓ {t['content']}")
    body = "\n\n".join(f"{p}\n" + "\n".join(lines) for p, lines in sorted(groups.items()))
    notify.email_me(f"Done today: {len(items)} tasks", body or "No tasks completed today.")
    return {"completed": len(items)}

FAQ

Common questions

Does it include tasks completed by teammates?

It reports the completed tasks returned for your own account, so work finished by others in shared projects only appears if it is part of your completed history. Ask for a version covering a specific shared project if you need the full picture.

What time does the evening digest arrive?

It sends at the time set in the schedule, such as 6 pm or 9 pm in your time zone. Because it counts tasks since the start of the day, anything completed after it sends will appear in the next day's list.

Are recurring tasks counted when I complete them?

Yes. Each time you tick a recurring task it is logged as a completion, so it shows up in that day's digest. If you complete the same recurring task twice in a day, it will be listed twice.

What permissions does it need?

read. 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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