Using Hushwork
Skills and bundles
A skill is one small thing Hushwork can do, and a bundle is a package of skills for one kind of work, with ready-made workflows.
Skills and bundles
A skill is one step with plain words about what it reads and what it writes. For example, "Email me the result" sends one email to you. A skill adds no new power: reading skills only read, and writing skills still wait for your Approve.
A bundle groups skills, lists the apps it needs, and comes with ready-made workflows. Open the Skills page to see what every skill reads and writes, and which apps are connected.
What "Turn on" does
Note: Turn on saves the bundle's workflows as drafts in Workflows. It connects no app, makes no schedule and runs nothing.
- A workflow whose name you already have is skipped.
- Turn off only removes the switch. The workflows stay.
- You can have up to 20 bundles on.
- The times below are only suggestions. If you open a workflow in the Builder and press Save, a Start step that says "On a schedule" or "Keep watching" makes a real schedule, with writing switched off. See Schedules.
Every bundle and workflow
There are 6 bundles and 21 workflows. Every email they send goes to you, not to anyone else.
Finance and operations
Needs Stripe, Google and Gmail (send).
- Invoice Chaser: Fridays at 10:00, finds unpaid Stripe invoices, drafts a reminder and emails you the lot.
- Expense Categorizer: Mondays at 9:00, emails which recent Drive files look like receipts.
- Weekly Money Report: Fridays at 16:00, sums up your Stripe payments.
Marketing and growth
Needs Gmail (send) and Notion.
- Campaign Repurposer: when you ask, turns one blog post into takeaways, 5 social posts and a newsletter draft. Put the post's address in both AI steps first.
- Weekly Post Ideas: Mondays at 9:00, emails five post ideas.
- Post Ideas to Notion: when you ask, writes five ideas on a new Notion page. Change the page id first.
Dev and admin
Needs Google, Linear, Gmail (send), GitHub, PagerDuty and Slack.
- Client Project Triage: when you ask, spots urgent client emails, sums up what is blocked in Linear, creates one Linear task and emails a brief.
- Reply Drafts: when you ask, writes short replies to your 5 newest emails. Their opening text goes to the AI (Groq).
- Slack Channel Brief: when you ask, reads one Slack channel and emails a brief. Change the channel name first.
- Weekly Dev Digest: Mondays at 9:00, one email of GitHub notifications and PagerDuty incidents.
Freelancer safety net
Needs Slack, Linear, Google, Gmail (send) and GitHub.
- Scope Creep Alarm: when you ask, compares what a client asked for in Slack with your Linear tasks and emails requests with no task.
- Week Balancer: Mondays at 8:00, matches 3 tasks to your lightest days.
- Meeting-Day Rescue Brief: weekdays at 8:00, emails a 3-bullet prep card.
- Context Switchboard: when you ask, reads Slack and GitHub and, after you approve, creates one Linear task for the item with no task.
Watch for me
Needs Stripe, Google, GitHub and Gmail (send). See Watch mode.
- Overdue invoice watch: weekdays at 9:00, quiet unless an invoice is newly overdue.
- Unhappy email watch: weekdays at 8:30, quiet unless a new urgent or unhappy email arrives.
- GitHub watch: every day at 17:00, quiet unless something new needs action.
Google Docs, Sheets and Slides
Needs Stripe, Google, and Google Sheets, Slides and Docs (create).
- Weekly report as a Google Sheet: Fridays at 16:00, makes a new Sheet of your Stripe payments after you approve.
- Proposal slides: when you ask, writes a 5-slide outline from your brief, then makes a Slides deck.
- Meeting notes doc: weekdays at 8:00, makes a Doc with notes for each meeting today.
- Drive tidy-up plan: when you ask, makes a Doc with a plan for your 10 newest files. Nothing is renamed or moved.