Weekly

Get a Friday recap of finished tasks

Each Friday you see everything you marked done over the last seven days.

Runs: Weekly
Apps: Google Tasks
AI: Not needed
Access: read

Send this to your assistant

Create a ClickRuntime automation: every Friday at 5pm, email me the Google Tasks I completed in the past 7 days, grouped by list.

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

Ask most people on a Friday afternoon what they got done this week and the honest answer is a shrug. The tasks were ticked and gone from view, replaced by the next day's list, so the sense of progress evaporates. That is a problem when you write a status update, prepare a one-to-one with your manager, or just want to know whether the week was productive or busy-but-empty.

On Friday the tasks you completed in the last seven days are pulled from your Google Tasks lists and sent to you in one email, grouped by list. It includes the finished items, so you have a ready-made record to paste into a weekly report or a review.

It is especially handy for freelancers and managers who report on their week without keeping a separate log. A common variation is a monthly version for performance reviews.

What you get out of it

A ready list for your weekly update
Status emails and one-to-one notes are easier when the finished items are already collected. You edit a list rather than reconstructing the week from memory. That saves twenty minutes of scrolling through calendars and sent mail on a Friday afternoon.
Honest view of the week
Seeing what actually got closed, rather than what felt busy, helps you plan next week better. If the list is short, you know to protect time. If the list is short, you learn that something else ate the week and can plan around it.
Evidence for reviews and invoices
A freelancer billing by the week can point to completed items, and an employee preparing for a review can show real output rather than impressions. It is a modest but real piece of proof when someone asks what you delivered.
Small wins stay visible
Checking off a tiny task feels good for a second and is then forgotten. A recap keeps those wins in front of you, which helps motivation on slow weeks. Reading the list at the end of the week gives a sense of progress that ticking boxes alone never does.
No manual logging habit needed
Nobody keeps a work diary consistently. The record builds itself from tasks you were completing anyway. The record builds itself from tasks you were completing anyway. There is no extra step to remember, so the habit survives busy weeks.

How it works

What happens, step by step

Every Friday, ClickRuntime looks through your Google Tasks lists for tasks completed in the last seven days.
It groups them by list and counts how many you finished in each.
You get one email with a tick next to each finished task.

Before it runs live

Connect Google Tasks

What you get

RunsWeekly

Get a Friday recap of finished taskstoday, 9:00Succeeded

Email · Completed this weekWork (6) ✓ Send Northwind invoice ✓ Review Acme contract

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 Tasks 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.

weekly_completed_tasks_recap.pyexample

from datetime import datetime, timedelta, timezone
from clickruntime import on_trigger, credentials, http, notify

API = "https://tasks.googleapis.com/tasks/v1"

@on_trigger
def run(event):
    headers = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {credentials.connection('google', 'work')}"}
    since = (datetime.now(timezone.utc) - timedelta(days=7)).strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ")
    lines, total = [], 0
    for lst in http.get(f"{API}/users/@me/lists", headers=headers).json().get("items", []):
        done = http.get(f"{API}/lists/{lst['id']}/tasks", headers=headers, params={
            "completedMin": since, "showCompleted": "true", "showHidden": "true"}).json().get("items", [])
        if done:
            total += len(done)
            lines.append(f"{lst['title']} ({len(done)})")
            lines += [f"  ✓ {t['title']}" for t in done]
    notify.email_me(f"You completed {total} tasks this week", "\n".join(lines) or "No completed tasks.")
    return {"completed": total}

FAQ

Common questions

How far back does the recap look?

It covers the previous seven days from the time it runs. A task completed on Monday morning still appears on Friday, while one completed last week does not, so each email is a rolling window.

Are subtasks and notes included?

Completed subtasks appear as their own items, and the task title is shown. Notes can be included if you want more detail, which is a small change to request through your AI assistant. Subtask titles are shown the same way as ordinary tasks.

Can the recap go to my manager?

It can be sent to any address, so you could email it to a teammate or manager as well as yourself. Think about whether the content of your tasks is appropriate to share before pointing it at someone else's inbox.

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 (weekly). 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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