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Microsoft Flow to automate your time-consuming tasks a-la IFTTT

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Published onMay 7, 2016

published onMay 7, 2016

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In today’s multitasking world, it is essential to know how toprioritize your tasks— otherwise, you might not respect your deadlines. The best aid in helping you to achieve this goal would be a tool that automatically takes care of your time-consuming tasks. In this manner, you can focus only on the most important and urgent tasks.

Microsoft Flow is a preview tool that helps you to set up automated workflows between your favorite apps and services in order to synchronize files, get notifications, collect data and perform other various tasks. You can access Flow from any device: your tablet, your desktop computer, or even your phone.

The tasks this app can performare very diverse and include:

If these templates are not enough, you can create your own flow from scratch.  All you need to do is select the apps involved, the action you want the flow to take, and the events that trigger it.

You can try out this useful business tool from Microsofthere. And if you’re intoautomated tasks, you should know thatIFTTTcould soon be coming to Windows 10, as well.

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Madalina Dinita

Networking & Security Specialist

Madalina has been a Windows fan ever since she got her hands on her first Windows XP computer.

She is interested in all things technology, especially emerging technologies – AI and DNA computing in particular.

Prior to joining the WindowsReport team, she worked in the corporate world for a number of years.

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Madalina Dinita

Networking & Security Specialist

Madalina is a Windows fan since forever, especially interested in AI, emerging technologies, privacy, and security.