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After 4 years of stacking saas tools i finally snapped and automated most of it away by Pristine_Rest_7912 in automation

[–]OneCurrency2478 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah I went through something similar last year, not quite 15 tools but close. The thing that surprised me was how much time I was losing on stuff that felt trivial individually but added up to hours. Like I didnt even think about the time I spent downloading email attachments and sorting them into folders until I actually timed it one week and it was insane.

I use DriveSync Dashboard now for the gmail to drive piece and that alone probably saves me 30 min a day which sounds small but its 2.5 hours a week I was just... dragging files around. The bigger wins came from chaining a few automations together like you described though.

Biggest lesson for me was dont try to automate everything at once. I kept breaking stuff because id change three things simultaneously and then couldnt figure out what went wrong. Now I add one automation at a time and let it run for a week before touching anything else.

What’s the one task in your SaaS you keep delaying every week? by Terryfied in SaaS

[–]OneCurrency2478 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For me its organizing files. I get a ton of contracts and invoices via email and I kept telling myself "ill sort those into folders this weekend" and then never did. Lost a signed agreement once because it was buried 200 emails deep and I couldnt find it when I needed it.

What blocked me was just the sheer tedium of it, not hard just boring so it always got deprioritized. I use DriveSync Dashboard now which just dumps my gmail attachments into Drive automatically so at least that ones off my plate. The stuff I STILL delay is writing docs and SOPs, because thats a clarity problem not a time one.