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Use MindMeister (a mind-mapping tool) to build a visual onboarding process map, then connect it to Make so every branch of the map becomes a real task in Todoist when a new hire is added. Your whole team can see the process clearly, and the tasks run automatically. You only build the map once.

After a new hire starts, this automation sends them a short check-in message every day for their first week — reminding them of that day's tasks and asking one quick question about how things are going. Responses get logged automatically so managers can spot problems early without scheduling extra meetings.

This automation creates a personalized onboarding workspace in Coda (a connected doc and database tool) for every new employee, pre-filled with their role, team, and a 30-60-90 day plan. The new hire and their manager both get access automatically. You stop rebuilding the same document from scratch every time someone joins.

When a manager fills out a new hire intake form, this automation creates a complete onboarding project in Todoist (a task management app) with every task assigned to the right person and sorted by week. Your HR team, IT team, and manager each see only their tasks. Nothing falls through the cracks.

When you add a new hire to your system, this automation builds a full onboarding checklist in Notion with every task already assigned and due dates set. Your new employee gets a welcome message with a link to their checklist on day one. No more copying templates by hand or forgetting steps.

Every Monday morning, n8n pulls the past week's server activity from Ghost and writes a summary into a shared Notion page. Your team sees total servers launched, total runtime hours, and estimated spend — all in one place without anyone compiling it manually.

Use Excalidraw (a free online whiteboard tool) to sketch your server layout — which regions you need, how many servers, and how they connect — before you touch Ghost. Share the diagram with your team or client for quick approval. Then use it as your build guide when you provision in Ghost.

When you provision a new server in Ghost, Make automatically creates a Notion page with a pre-built checklist — things like confirming firewall rules, notifying players, and scheduling a shutdown time. Every server launch follows the same process without anyone having to remember the steps.

Pull your Ghost server activity logs into a database and connect Metabase (a data visualization tool) to build charts showing peak usage times, most-used server types, and monthly cost trends. You get a real dashboard instead of digging through raw logs every time someone asks a question.