I have a consulting business.

I have a few basic zaps, like sending myself an email reminder every Monday to review goals.

FreshBooks for automating recurring invoices and payment reminders.

This one has saved me a lot of time: Calendly to let people schedule meetings on my calendar. I’ve set a very narrow availability window so that meetings are grouped into one afternoon.

aText app to create shortcuts for long strings that I use often, like my Zoom and Calendly URLs.

I also developed Standard Operating Procedures for my business to “automate” certain decisions or protocols.

I try to eliminate before I automate. Does the thing really need doing, or can I find a way or reason to never have to do it again? For example, instead of routing Slack messages (I am in ~5 Slack orgs at any time) to my phone or email, I just set the expectation early that I will not check Slack frequently so if they need to reach me they should use email.