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Post a daily Trello deadline digest to Slack

Each weekday morning your team sees what is overdue, what is due today and what moved yesterday, without opening the board.

Runs
On a schedule
Apps
Slack, Trello
AI
Optional
Access
Trello read; Slack chat:write

Send this to your assistant

Create a ClickRuntime automation: every weekday at 9, post a Slack summary of my Trello board: overdue cards, cards due today, and yesterday's activity.

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

First time? Adding ClickRuntime to your assistant takes about two minutes.

Why use it

Why teams use this automation

A marketing team of five runs its campaigns on one Trello board. Due dates are set, but nobody opens the board every morning, so a blog post that was due Tuesday is still sitting in Review on Thursday. The weekly meeting is where missed deadlines are discovered, which is too late to do anything about them.

A short message in Slack at the start of each day puts the board's deadlines in front of everyone where they already are. Overdue work is noticed on day one, not day four.

What you get out of it

  • Missed deadlines surface the next morning

    An overdue card appears in the digest the day after its due date. The owner can finish it, move the date or ask for help before it becomes a problem.

  • Everyone starts the day with the same picture

    The whole team reads the same list of what is due today. It replaces several separate check-ins and avoids two people assuming the other has it.

  • Yesterday's progress is visible

    Cards that moved yesterday show the team what got done. Quiet progress gets noticed without anyone writing a status update.

  • No need to open the board

    The digest arrives in the channel people already read. Those who rarely visit Trello still know what needs their attention.

  • A summary that reads like a person wrote it

    With AI turned on, the digest opens with a short plain summary of the day ahead. Without it, the same lists are posted in a clear grouped format.

How it works

What happens, step by step

  1. Every weekday at 9, ClickRuntime reads all open cards and yesterday's activity from your Trello board.

  2. It sorts cards into overdue and due today, and lists the cards that moved yesterday.

  3. If AI is turned on, it adds a two-sentence summary of the day ahead at the top.

  4. The digest is posted to your Slack channel for the whole team.

Before it runs live

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

What you get

RunsOn a schedule
Post a daily Trello deadline digest to Slacktoday, 9:00Succeeded
Slack · #marketingOverdue: Contoso case study (2 days). Due today: Q3 newsletter, Acme webinar slides.

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
  • Change what the AI looks for, or how it writes the result
  • Add another app, for example also send it to Google Sheets
  • Combine it with other Slack and Trello 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_trello_deadline_digest_to_slack.pyexample
from datetime import datetime, timedelta, timezone
from clickruntime import on_trigger, credentials, http, notify, ai

BOARD_ID = "your-board-id"

@on_trigger
def run(event):
    auth = {"key": credentials.secret("TRELLO_API_KEY"), "token": credentials.secret("TRELLO_TOKEN")}
    now = datetime.now(timezone.utc)
    cards = http.get(f"https://api.trello.com/1/boards/{BOARD_ID}/cards/open", params=auth).json()
    since = (now - timedelta(days=1)).isoformat()
    moves = http.get(f"https://api.trello.com/1/boards/{BOARD_ID}/actions", params={**auth, "filter": "updateCard:idList", "since": since}).json()
    due = [(c["name"], datetime.fromisoformat(c["due"].replace("Z", "+00:00"))) for c in cards if c.get("due") and not c.get("dueComplete")]
    overdue = [n for n, d in due if d < now]
    today = [n for n, d in due if d.date() == now.date() and d >= now]
    moved = [f"{a['data']['card']['name']} → {a['data']['listAfter']['name']}" for a in moves]
    text = "*Overdue*\n" + ("\n".join(overdue) or "None") + "\n*Due today*\n" + ("\n".join(today) or "None") + "\n*Moved yesterday*\n" + ("\n".join(moved) or "None")
    try:
        text = ai.generate(text, system="Write a two-sentence plain summary of this board for the team.", max_output_tokens=120).text + "\n\n" + text
    except ai.AIError:
        pass
    notify.slack(text, channel="#marketing")
    return {"overdue": len(overdue), "today": len(today), "moved": len(moved)}

FAQ

Common questions

Does it post on weekends?
No, only Monday to Friday at 9. Friday's digest still covers anything due over the weekend in its due-today list if you want, or you can add a Monday catch-up.
Which cards count as overdue?
Cards with a due date in the past that are not marked complete. Cards without a due date are left out, so the digest focuses on real deadlines.
Can it cover more than one board?
Yes. Each board can get its own section in the same message, or its own digest in a different channel, which suits teams that split work by client.
What permissions does it need?
Trello read; Slack chat:write. Nothing else in your accounts is used.
Does it need AI?
No, but you can ask for an AI step (for example a summary). It then uses ClickRuntime's built-in 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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