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Workflows

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Notion
Why AI at Work Needs a Rethink
A survey of over 6,000 knowledge workers across the UK, France, and Germany, commissioned by Notion, reveals that daily AI users report significantly more benefits than occasional users. For example, 59% of daily users in the UK say AI agents are changing team collaboration, versus 37% overall, and 48% say AI helps them demonstrate more value, nearly double the overall 25%; similar patterns hold in France and Germany. Gen Z workers are especially likely to use AI to expand their responsibilities, but they also express higher concern about job security, notably in Germany where concern was 21 points above the national average. However, AI use remains largely individual: only about 20% of respondents embed AI agents in team-wide workflows. The post argues that the next step is rebuilding AI around shared workflows and company context, as demonstrated by companies like Pennylane and Brainlabs.

Stripe
Run recurring jobs on Stripe without a cron server
Stripe Workflows now supports recurring schedule triggers, enabling automated tasks like notifying teams about past-due subscriptions without external cron servers. Users set schedules in the Dashboard, and Stripe runs the workflow at each scheduled time, following the local clock and handling daylight saving time. A walkthrough lists past-due subscriptions, uses a metadata key condition to skip already-notified ones, and sends Slack notifications via the installed Slack app. The workflow handles pagination; if an action fails, the loop stops and remaining items are picked up on the next run, with details showing which step failed. This eliminates the need for a separate server, secret key storage, and daylight saving time logic, putting calendar-based operations under the finance team’s control.

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2 posts about Workflows. Every summary links to the original.

Paid picks we use ourselves. Links carry a referral code — a subscription through one earns us a commission at no extra cost to you.

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Notion
Why AI at Work Needs a Rethink
A survey of over 6,000 knowledge workers across the UK, France, and Germany, commissioned by Notion, reveals that daily AI users report significantly more benefits than occasional users. For example, 59% of daily users in the UK say AI agents are changing team collaboration, versus 37% overall, and 48% say AI helps them demonstrate more value, nearly double the overall 25%; similar patterns hold in France and Germany. Gen Z workers are especially likely to use AI to expand their responsibilities, but they also express higher concern about job security, notably in Germany where concern was 21 points above the national average. However, AI use remains largely individual: only about 20% of respondents embed AI agents in team-wide workflows. The post argues that the next step is rebuilding AI around shared workflows and company context, as demonstrated by companies like Pennylane and Brainlabs.

Stripe
Run recurring jobs on Stripe without a cron server
Stripe Workflows now supports recurring schedule triggers, enabling automated tasks like notifying teams about past-due subscriptions without external cron servers. Users set schedules in the Dashboard, and Stripe runs the workflow at each scheduled time, following the local clock and handling daylight saving time. A walkthrough lists past-due subscriptions, uses a metadata key condition to skip already-notified ones, and sends Slack notifications via the installed Slack app. The workflow handles pagination; if an action fails, the loop stops and remaining items are picked up on the next run, with details showing which step failed. This eliminates the need for a separate server, secret key storage, and daylight saving time logic, putting calendar-based operations under the finance team’s control.

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