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Get a daily list of tasks due

Each morning you get the rows in your tracker that are due today or overdue.

Runs: Daily
Apps: Google Sheets
AI: Not needed
Access: read

Send this to your assistant

Create a ClickRuntime automation: every weekday at 8am, email me the rows in my Tasks sheet where Due Date is today or earlier and Status isn't Done.

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

A small events company tracks tasks in a Google Sheet: supplier payments, permit applications, client sign-offs, with a due date and a status column. The sheet is up to date, but nobody opens it on a day when everything is on fire, and a venue deposit that was due Tuesday gets noticed on Friday. The late fee is minor, but the venue's patience is not, and the pattern repeats every busy season.

Each morning, ClickRuntime reads your tracker, parses the date and status columns, keeps the rows that are due today or already overdue and not yet marked done, and emails you the list. If nothing is due, you get no email, or a brief note that all is clear, as you prefer.

Project managers, freelancers, landlords and office managers use it as a daily to-do generated from the tracker they already keep.

What you get out of it

Deadlines surface on the day
A morning email names everything due today, so deposits, filings and sign-offs are done in time. A due date stops being a fact in a cell and becomes something you act on.
Overdue items never disappear
Rows past their date and still open stay in the list until they are marked done. That keeps old commitments in front of you, instead of letting them scroll off the sheet and out of mind.
Late fees and penalties avoided
Missed payments and filings often carry fees or strained relationships. A daily nudge costs nothing compared with a venue withholding a booking or an authority adding a charge. Vendors tend to remember who pays on time.
No new tool to adopt
The tracker stays a Google Sheet that your team already understands. Reminders arrive in email, and nobody has to learn a task manager or move their data to get them.
A calmer start to the day
Knowing in the first minutes what needs doing removes the background worry of forgetting something. You start with a short list and not a vague feeling that a deadline is near.

How it works

What happens, step by step

Every morning ClickRuntime reads the task list in your Google Sheet.
It picks the tasks that are due today or overdue and aren't marked done.
You get an email listing each task with its due date and owner.

Before it runs live

Connect your Google Sheets account and pick the spreadsheets it may use

What you get

RunsDaily

Get a daily list of tasks duetoday, 9:00Succeeded

Email · 3 tasks due or overdueSend Acme invoice (due 2026-10-17, Sam) Renew Northwind domain (due 2026-10-19, Riya)

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 Google Sheets 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_due_date_reminders.pyexample

from google.oauth2.credentials import Credentials
from googleapiclient.discovery import build
from datetime import date
from clickruntime import on_trigger, credentials, notify

SHEET_ID = "your-spreadsheet-id"

@on_trigger
def run(event):
    sheets = build("sheets", "v4", credentials=Credentials(credentials.connection("google", "work")), cache_discovery=False).spreadsheets()
    rows = sheets.values().get(spreadsheetId=SHEET_ID, range="Tasks!A2:D").execute().get("values", [])
    today = date.today().isoformat()
    due = [f"{task} (due {due_date}, {owner or 'unassigned'})"
           for task, owner, due_date, status in ((r + [""] * 4)[:4] for r in rows)
           if due_date and due_date <= today and status != "Done"]
    if due:
        notify.email_me(f"{len(due)} tasks due or overdue", "\n".join(due))
    return {"due": len(due)}

FAQ

Common questions

What does the email look like?

A short list of rows, each with task name, due date, owner and how many days overdue it is, sorted with the oldest first. Include any extra columns you want, such as client or amount, so the list is useful without opening the sheet.

Can each person get only their own tasks?

Yes. If your sheet has an owner or assignee column, each person's email can include only their rows, or you can send the full list to a manager and filtered ones to the team. Provide the address for each owner.

How does it know a task is finished?

It reads your status column. Rows marked Done, Complete or any value you choose as finished are skipped. Keep the status wording consistent, since a typo like Donee would leave the item in the daily list.

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 (daily). 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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