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Module 4 Pro8 min read

Automating small repetitive tasks

Email rules, templates and simple automations — no coding required.

One Friday, Priya watched Meera type out the same polite "received, will review by Tuesday" reply for the fourth time that day, and offered the sentence this whole lesson hangs on:

"If you have done it three times, teach the computer to do it."

No coding is coming. Everything here is a checkbox or a menu inside tools you already use — and together these small automations quietly return an hour or two every week.

Email rules: the inbox that sorts itself

Newsletters, automated receipts, system notifications — messages you want kept but do not need interrupting you. A rule (Outlook) or filter (Gmail) handles each one forever:

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