all right all right all right I know I know what you're thinking Dimitri what are you making this intro video what do you what are you making this video for well there are some people out there who don't know how to do automation things okay I am the kind of person who comes to the YouTubes they're multiple tube I go onto YouTube I make videos and I say this is how you do things you know I'm a tutorial guy made a lot of tutorials and what I'm going to show you in this video is how to get started using make.com now what is make.com for those of you that don't know what automation is I feel sorry for you but at the same time your whole world is about to open automation is this fancy thing that you can do with no code tools like nick.com and in this video we're gonna dive into the different ways that it works and how you can use it for yourself you can get started absolutely for free and I remember when I first opened my own world of Wonder with make.com I I really did my life changed a lot it was really cool automations help you save times from doing things that you don't want to do doing things that are duplicative and are just in the same process of what you're going to end up doing anyway you can see times on things that are basic you can save time on things that are Advanced I mean you can do so many different things with automation but first i'm gonna have to explain to you what the heck an automation is in make.com and how to get started first of all like I said you can get started absolutely for free be able to build some scenarios and if you want to check out the rest of the pricing I would recommend you do so I do an affiliate link down below and this video is sponsored by make.com but as you can see I have a lot of scenarios which is the first explanation first explanation is a scenario is essentially the area where you will create your automation by clicking on this this first step in the scenario is going to be something that we're going to call the trigger so a trigger is what is required to happen in order for the scenario to trigger the automation so in this example for this video we're actually just going to do a very basic one which is a Google Calendar one right here so we're going to type Google Calendar and it's going to be a Google Calendar to notion one-way sync so there's a few different types of triggers there are acid triggers which essentially just watch and wait for something to happen there are search triggers which look for things that have happened so for example searches for events on a specific calendar whereas the acid ones are triggers when an event is created updated deleted started or ended in a specific calendar and then there is the other starting options which are things like create or duplicate or update that are more so just actions that start and what actions are is is literally everything I just went through so everything I just explained this create duplicate update delete whereas it search and watch are the triggers that would start this system inmate.com you have the option between having these acid triggers and having a schedule run so for example every 15 minutes this scenario would run and you can start with a specific action but for our purposes we're going to do watch events and I'm gonna look for instances where where in my rise productive calendar there is a created event so this is waiting for it it's just waiting for it waiting for the amazingness of Google Calendar to work it's I wonder I don't know what I'm saying long story short it's waiting for me to make a new Google Calendar instance so if I were to then go to notion I can have it do any of the following I can have it create a database item which for example could go to a notion database that would be like a meeting and notes database if I were to click create a database item I then would have to connect it to an ID now with anything within make.com first step for getting all these going is you're gonna have to add a connection through the API so like for example I logged in to my Google account and I also logged into my notion account by pressing add here and then doing the notion public connection and then just giving access through the API and selecting the specific pages that I want to connect to make.com and notion with now in order to share something specific like this what I'm going to do is I'm going to take a example meeting notes page and you'll see here that there is an example event time property that's going to be in these meetings all I need to do is share this copy link database and then in notion circumstances you're going to delete everything after and including the question mark and then before and including this backslash and that's going to be your database ID then when I click on it again you'll see that I have some Fields I need to fill out so I want to make the start time whatever the start time is for this Google Calendar event let's do start and then I'm going to type end in here and then we're going to do end so these are all the different attributes and properties that make up this Google Calendar event and all I'm doing is I'm mapping them to the different properties in something like notion and then obviously I want the name to match up so the item here is actually going to be the summary that's the name of the name for Google Calendar event and then say it's my calendar I want to make sure that I select myself as an attendee and then press ok now I can create a event within my calendar for example for tomorrow at 10 AM called business meeting really important stuff and then when I press run once it's gonna look for the events and it's going to create the recently made events in this calendar you can see what it found by pressing on this search you'll see that there's a podcast recording it found in this bundle which is the item that it found and then a bundle two it also found podcast recording as well and then within here you see that it created two different bundles I go into meetings you'll see that it created podcast recording one and two and it has the event time right here for the start and end date now a next level of update that I could do here is actually rather than having it start an end time I could press include time so that it would actually include the time Associated to it like 4 pm now you may be asking yourself that wasn't what I put in and that's because when it comes to the asset events I didn't put any sort of query Associated to it and what could make more sense is if I wanted to use one of those search examples that I was using so search events and then I'm going to set it to that same calendar and then I'm gonna put it to for the start date and then let's go to this date section is ADD days and then now and then I'm just gonna add one day so basically looking at everything tomorrow and instead of me manually running this what would make a lot more sense actually would be if I were to First fix all the different properties so that everything lines up again with summary and then start end times and then press save and then I would set it for it every day at like midnight or something I could set it to every day let's do it really early in the morning like two in the morning it would search the items for the next day or we could do it late at night do like uh 10 pm the night before to look for the meetings for the next day press run once and you'll see really quickly that it's gonna add all these various items and then we also want to make sure that this end date by the way before we do anything has same date as the start date and then we can do run once no let's change this to two days from now now after we run this you'll see that it'll find the events in the next few days so tomorrow or the day after then it's going to create that database item within notion so my end of week at an improvement sync that I have with my editor you'll see it shows the event time the start and the end time and on July 28th is that the case boom 7 15 to 8 am now in mountain time which is the default time that I have in my make.com account it's going to be an hour behind what it says on my Google Calendar gonna show up perfectly accurate all my event times have shown up right inside of my notion which is a nice quick and easy one-way Google Sync between the two and like I said rather than me manually clicking run once or doing it watch time what I can do is I could schedule it too on and just run every night now I do have more advanced videos on how to do an entire make.com Google to notion calendar sync if you want to check that video out it's going to be a link to it down below but this is just a baseline of how to get started rather than me manually having to click on those different things and you know for me I I also even have it set up so that for my meetings when I when I click on this the the agenda Auto links to notion and the calendar so I I can like take notes and it's connected to my calendar so like I got some decently high level automations going within here where we're just scratching the service in this video but I wanted to show you the power that it can have when it comes to connecting two different things together I know for me that without make.com and all these automations I'd have to start from scratch on doing all this manual work and I would dislike it very much so I'd like to thank make.com not only for sponsoring this video but for just existing because because you make my life a lot better thank you and I like to thank all of you for watching this video and checking out this video on how to improve your productivity even more