The hardest part of automating anything is the blank page. You know the chore you want gone, the Monday report or the inbox that never stays sorted, but turning it into steps takes time you don't have. And most of the work teams want to automate looks a lot like work another team has already automated.
So today we're opening Lodol's workflow library to everyone: 161 ready-made workflows, written and tested by our team, each with its own page at lodol.com/workflows that explains exactly what it does, step by step, before you add it.
What's in it
The library covers 17 job functions, from sales, marketing and customer support to finance, HR, recruiting, IT, legal and personal productivity, and between them the workflows use 70 different apps. Google Sheets, Gmail and Slack are the most common, and many use an AI model from Anthropic or OpenAI for the reading and writing. Some examples:
- Gmail alerts in Slack posts the emails that matter into a Slack channel as they arrive, filtered by subject, sender or label, so the channel stays worth reading.
- Weekly HubSpot lead report to Slack posts every Monday at 7:00: how many leads came in, how that compares with the week before, and who they are.
- Answer Slack questions from your Notion wiki drafts an answer from the pages it finds, with links, and says so when your wiki doesn't cover the question.
- Welcome next week's new starters emails everyone starting next week and tells the team in Slack who's joining, written straight from your roster so nothing is made up.
- Review and send replies to support enquiries writes a reply to each new support email and shows it to you first. Type send and it goes; anything else saves it as a draft.
- Turn meeting notes into tracked tasks pulls out who agreed to do what by when, and adds each one to Airtable.
Of the 161, 93 run on a schedule, such as every morning or every Monday, 33 start the moment something happens, like a new email or a Slack message, and 35 run whenever you start them.
Built not to guess
A template is only worth starting from if you can trust it on real data, unattended, for months. So each one is held to the same rules, and each is run against real data before it goes live. The rules come down to four things.
- Nothing happens twice. A workflow records what it has handled, with a Gmail label or a status in your sheet, before it moves on, so a retried run doesn't log the same email twice or send the same message again.
- A failure never looks like a quiet day. If a search or a fetch comes back empty because something broke, the workflow says so, rather than reporting that there was nothing new.
- Your data isn't overwritten with blanks. A value a workflow couldn't find is left out or flagged, never written over something that was already there. Turn order emails into spreadsheet rows, for example, labels a whole email for review if any value in it is unclear.
- Replies in your name wait for you. The support templates that answer customers show you each reply first or leave it as a draft.
How to use one
Find a workflow at lodol.com/workflows by app, task or job function, and read its page to see every step it takes and what to set up before the first run. Click Add to workspace, connect the apps it uses (a one-time setup for each, with instructions in Lodol), and it runs. From there it's yours: change a schedule, swap an app, or add a step of your own. Inside Lodol, Templates in the sidebar opens the library, and a new workspace starts by asking what you work on and offering starter workflows for it.
The library is free to use on every plan, and we're adding to it every week.
Find the one that fits your work.
Browse the library, or create a free workspace and pick your starter workflows.
