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3 New Productivity Tools That Can Automate Your Workday These productivity tools can help you stop wasting time on tedious tasks.

By Chyelle Dvorak •

This story appears in the January 2021 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »

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Tech used to save us time. Then along came a barrage of email, multiple calendars to manage, spreadsheets to fill — and soon our time-saving tech began taking too much time to manage.

That's why you're starting to hear a lot of this word: automation. Popular workplace tools like Trello, Airtable, and Boomerang are adding automation features to their platforms, which promise to save their users time by eliminating mundane, repetitive tasks.

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