Create Coda task from the currently opened page
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How does this automation work?
Bardeen's playbook for creating a Coda task from the currently opened page is a productivity booster for professionals who frequently research and gather information online. It automates the process of capturing essential details from a webpage and organizing them into actionable tasks within Coda. This workflow is particularly useful for data sourcing, research, and personal productivity, allowing users to seamlessly convert online findings into structured tasks.
Here's how this workflow transforms your current webpage into a structured Coda task:
- Step 1: Get current page details - This step retrieves the details of the currently open tab in your browser, ensuring that the right page is targeted for task creation.
- Step 2: Capture page URL - The command fetches the URL of the current page, which will later be included in the Coda task for easy reference.
- Step 3: Extract page content - Bardeen then extracts the HTML content of the page, preparing it for summarization.
- Step 4: Convert to text and summarize - The HTML content is converted to text and summarized depending on the user's preference for detail level, utilizing OpenAI's advanced summarization capabilities.
- Step 5: Merge task details - The page title, summary, and URL are merged to form the task description, ensuring all relevant information is captured in a concise format.
- Step 6: Create Coda task - Finally, the compiled task description is added to a specified Coda table, turning the webpage information into an actionable task within your workflow.
How to run the playbook
We all know the feeling. You're in the middle of research and you come across an interesting article, but you don't have time to read it right now. So, you bookmark it for later. But later never comes, and the article stays there, collecting digital dust.
This automation will help you turn those articles into actionable items. It will create an Coda task from the currently open page, including a summary of the page generated by OpenAI. That way, you can come back to the task later and quickly get an overview of the article.
Step 1: Pin the playbook and integrate Coda
First, click the 'Pin it' button at the top of this page to save this automation. You will be redirected to install the browser extension when you run it for the first time. Bardeen will also prompt you to integrate Coda.
Step 2: Run the playbook to create Coda task from the currently opened page
Press Option + B (or Alt + B if you are on a Window machine) on your keyboard to launch Bardeen.
Click run to run the automation for the current page. It will create an Coda task from the page, including a summary generated by OpenAI.
Step 3: Check your Coda tasks
You can find the new task in your Coda.
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