It took me 45 minutes to realize that the workflow wasn’t broken — Notion just hadn’t synced the new page title to the API yet. I had Zapier schedules firing, Airtable automations cued up, and everything else waiting on a value that was technically there, but not quite there-enough. That’s pretty much a Tuesday around…
There’s something hilariously cruel about relying on a tag system—only to find the app stopped respecting the tag rules you built into your workflows last week. I’ve had this happen in Notion, ClickUp, and Todoist. For context, I’m a solo freelancer jumping between design projects, Stripe dispute workflows (ugh), and drafting long documents like this…
If you’ve ever watched your email automation magically start working after you refresh the tab… and then break again 20 minutes later, yeah, same here. I’ve been using AI tools to trigger email workflows since long before half of them had stable APIs, so this is going to lean less on theory and more on…