What actions can rules perform?

Under Then, a rule can tag an article, mark it as read, add a note, create a summary, translate it, email it, push a notification to your phone, show a desktop alert, share it to a Team channel, call a webhook, or send it to Google Drive, Instapaper, Evernote, OneNote, Dropbox or Raindrop.io. One rule can have several actions.

The actions

+ Add action adds a row whose menu offers Assign tag, Send to email, Save to Read later list, Create summary, Translate article, Send to Team channel, Push mobile notification, Show desktop alert, Trigger webhook, Add note, Mark as read, Send to Google Drive, Send to Instapaper, Send to Evernote, Send to OneNote, Send to Dropbox and Send to Raindrop.io.

What each action asks for

Assign tag takes a tag from your list or a new one through Add tag. Send to email takes one or more addresses, separated by a comma or semicolon, and Email settings sets the email's type, subject and body. Create summary uses one of your AI prompts and your Intelligence tokens. Translate article takes the target language, and a rule can translate up to 100 articles a day, 1,000 on Team Intelligence plans. Send to Team channel takes a channel and an optional note. Push mobile notification reaches the official Inoreader apps. Show desktop alert needs the browser permission that Enable notifications asks for. Trigger webhook takes the URL to call, Add note the note's text, and Mark as read and Save to Read later list act on your own copy of the article.

The six services need a connected account. Until then the action shows Connect your [service] account, and Where can I manage my integrations? has the details. Rules can send 150 articles a day to Instapaper, Evernote, OneNote and Raindrop.io each, and 500 to Dropbox and Google Drive. A rule whose action reached its cap says so in the list.

Order and background work

Email, push, webhook, Team channel and service actions, summaries and translations run in the background and not always in the order listed. Can one rule perform multiple actions? explains how to chain rules when the order matters.

Rules are a Pro feature, and Send to Team channel needs a Team plan. What are rules? explains the other parts of a rule, and the blog post on new rule triggers and actions introduces the latest ones.