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Manage HackMD notes from WhatsApp
Flann connects HackMD to the WhatsApp chat you already run your business from. You ask, and Flann picks the right HackMD action. Your price list, your stock sheet and your signed agreements probably all sit in HackMD. With Flann connected, a voice note can add a row, update a price or pull a total from them. Look-ups happen straight away.
8 actions in HackMD. 5 only look things up, and 3 create, update, send or delete. You connect with your API key.
What you can ask Flann to do in HackMD
Type it or say it in a voice note. Flann works out which HackMD action you mean.
“Look up the note in HackMD.”
“Show me my folders in HackMD.”
“Look up the account in HackMD.”
“Create a note in HackMD.”
What Flann can work with in HackMD
HackMD gives Flann 8 actions across 4 kinds of record. These are the ones you are most likely to use.
| Record | What Flann can do | Actions |
|---|---|---|
| Notes | createlook upmoverestore | 5 |
Here is what changes when HackMD goes through Flann instead of its own screens.
| Compare | In HackMD yourselfYou click through each job | Flann on HackMDYou ask, Flann does the clicking |
|---|---|---|
| Asking for something | Log in and click through the screens | Text or voice note, in your own words |
| Looking things up about notes | By hand, screen by screen | 5 look-ups, answered straight away |
| Creating and updating | Typed in by hand | 3 changes, made from a message |
| HackMD records | All of them, one screen at a time | 4 kinds, from one chat |
| Set-up | Nothing new to set up | Your HackMD API key, once |
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Step by step: HackMD jobs you can hand to Flann
What happens between your message and the result in HackMD.
Create a note from a voice note
- You message Flann on WhatsApp: “Create a note in HackMD with these details.”
- Flann runs
List Notesin HackMD and shows you what it found. - Flann runs
Create Notein HackMD. - Flann creates it in HackMD and confirms in the chat.
Get answers about your folders
- You message Flann on WhatsApp: “What is the latest on our folders in HackMD?”
- Flann runs
List Foldersin HackMD and shows you what it found. - Nothing in HackMD is changed: these are look-ups, so they run straight away.
Check your accounts from WhatsApp
- You message Flann on WhatsApp: “Show me where our accounts in HackMD stand.”
- Flann runs
Get Accountin HackMD and shows you what it found. - Nothing in HackMD is changed: these are look-ups, so they run straight away.
The HackMD jobs you can stop doing yourself
You stay in charge of what goes out. Flann does the reading, the drafting and the chasing.
Reading the long contract for you
Today
Supplier agreements and leases run to pages of dense clauses. You skim them late at night, or sign without properly reading the renewal terms.
With Flann
“What does the new linen supplier contract in HackMD say about notice and price rises?”
Every page of the contract in HackMD gets read, not just the first few. You get the notice period, the renewal date, any automatic price rise and anything unusual, each with the clause it comes from.
What you stop doing: Skimming clauses late at night before you sign is over.
Logging the day’s takings
Today
At closing you are meant to add takings, card totals and petty cash to a spreadsheet in HackMD. Tired, you skip it, and the gaps show up at month end.
With Flann
“Here’s the till slip. Add today’s totals to the takings sheet in HackMD.”
Cash, card and refund totals are read off the slip and matched to the columns already in your takings sheet in HackMD.
What you stop doing: Typing up the till slip after a long shift is off your list.
More on this: how to hand repetitive tasks to an AI agent on WhatsApp.
How Flann connects to HackMD
- Open Connectors in Flann and choose HackMD.
- Paste your HackMD API key into the secure form Flann opens. You will find the key in your HackMD account settings.
- Go back to WhatsApp and ask for what you need. Flann chooses the HackMD action and fills in the details.
Reading from HackMD is instant. HackMD stays connected until you remove it in Connectors.
Ways to use HackMD with Flann
Start a document by voice
Send Flann the gist in a voice note. It prepares the document in HackMD for you to check.
Find it without searching
Ask for last month’s price list or the signed agreement. Flann searches HackMD and brings it into the chat.
Summarise before you read
Ask what a long document says. Flann reads it in HackMD and gives you the points that matter.
Everything Flann can do in HackMD
All 8 HackMD actions, as Flann sees them.
Looks up 5
- Get Account
- Get Note
- List Folders
- List Notes
- List Trash
Changes 3
- Create Note
- Move Note to Trash
- Restore Notes
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Common questions
What can Flann do with notes in HackMD?
Flann can create, look up, move and restore notes in HackMD, using 5 actions (Create Note, Get Note, List Notes, Move Note to Trash and more). Looking up runs straight away and changes nothing. The other actions create or change notes in HackMD.
How does Flann connect to HackMD?
Open Connectors in Flann, choose HackMD and paste your HackMD API key into a secure form. You will find the key in your HackMD account settings. Once it is connected, Flann can use 8 actions in HackMD.
How do I ask Flann to do something in HackMD?
Message Flann on WhatsApp the way you would message a colleague, or send a voice note. Flann picks the HackMD action that fits and asks if anything is missing.
Does connecting HackMD cost extra?
No. HackMD is included in every Flann plan, along with every other app Flann connects to.