{"id":110694,"date":"2016-04-28T05:56:42","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T12:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-automate\/work-smarter-with-email\/"},"modified":"2016-04-28T05:56:42","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T12:56:42","slug":"work-smarter-with-email","status":"publish","type":"power-automate","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-automate\/work-smarter-with-email\/","title":{"rendered":"Work smarter with email"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Flow is a powerful tool that allows you to integrate all your favorite apps together. Today, we are going to look at one such example that is useful and really demonstrates the power of the product.<\/p>\n<p>My name is Sunay Vaishnav and I am a product manager on the team. Just like most of you, I receive a fair share of email. Constantly checking emails, and staying on top of all the conversations, sometimes gets in the way. Shutting off email completely while I focus on other priorities is also not an option. Most email providers today, provide basic tools to manage your inbox with rules and folder management, but fall short when you need to customize the type of notifications you receive based on the priority, content or sender of the email.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I prefer to receive a text message, anytime my manager sends me an important email. Let\u2019s take a look at how I have set up this flow.<\/p>\n<p>First, I have setup the trigger to fire when I receive an email in my Inbox marked with high priority.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/smarter-email-1.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Then, using the Office 365 Users connection, I can programmatically find out my manager\u2019s email address and set up a condition to occur only if the sender matches with my manager\u2019s email address.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/smarter-email-2.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Make sure you select the tokens from the correct outputs of the previous steps.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/smarter-email-3.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The final step is to setup a channel of notification \u2013 I have used Twilio to send myself a text message in this case, with the subject of the email in the text message.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/smarter-email-4.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 120px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/flow.microsoft.com\/en-us\/galleries\/public\/templates\/f2b8e5f4-b40a-447f-8d8e-29bc90d4c7d4\/\" style=\"padding: 10px 12px; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 120, 215); border-image: none; text-align: center; color: white; line-height: 1; font-family: Segoe UI, Open-Sans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; min-width: 300px; background-color: rgb(0, 120, 215);\">Use this template<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s it, it was that simple to tailor a flow that works for me. If, this is something you think would help you as well \u2013 you can click <a href=\"https:\/\/flow.microsoft.com\/en-us\/galleries\/public\/templates\/f2b8e5f4-b40a-447f-8d8e-29bc90d4c7d4\/\"><u>here<\/u><\/a> to use the template shown here. If you prefer to receive notifications on Slack or as a Facebook post, just tweak the last step from the template and you are good to go. The most important bit for us is to make our product, work for you \u2013 the way <strong><em>you<\/em><\/strong> want it.<\/p>\n<p>On an ending note, we have been toiling on making Microsoft Flow work for <strong><em>you<\/em><\/strong> and we are really proud of what we have built in few short months. If you haven\u2019t already, give <a href=\"https:\/\/flow.microsoft.com\/\"><u>Microsoft Flow<\/u><\/a> a run, we\u2019d love to hear from you about the product and how you use it to work smarter. Please <a href=\"https:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkID=787467\">join us on the community<\/a> to provide us feedback and ask questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn how to make your email smarter with Microsoft Flow. 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