I am interested in doing a flow (ultimately, several flows possibly, as needed) which will help me implement time-blocking. I.e., as new emails come to my inbox, I would like to move them to a sub-folder of my inbox corresponding with time-blocked email review times of "Day 1 Morning," "Day 1 mid-day," and "Day 1 afternoon;" and "Day 2 Morning," "Day 2 mid-day," and "Day 2 afternoon;" and then "Day 3 morning," "Day 3 mid-day," and "Day 3 afternoon."
In this scheme, Days 1-3 are relative to the day when I first receive/process any email and the Morning, Mid-day, and Afternoon blocks roughly correspond to priority levels of low, medium, and high. As such, for example, an email which is both urgent and important would go into the folder designated for Tomorrow Morning, while an email which can be processed eventually could go into the folder for Day 3 afternoon. Analagously, each of Days 1-3 and Morning, mid-day, and afternoon can represent High (Day 1), Medium (Day 2), Low (Day 3) priorities AND each of Morning, mid-day, and afternoon can also correspond to High, Medium, and Low priorities so that tomorrow morning would be analgous to High Priority (Day 1) and High Priority (Morning) - HighHigh; and an email which I intend to process at mid-day on Day 3 would correspond to Low Priority (day 3) and medium priority (mid-day) - e.g., LowMedium. Hopefully that makes sense, and can also be visualizsed as a matrix with vertical (Days 1, 2, or 3 (Priorities 1-3)) and horizontal (Morning, mid-day, afternoon (Priority 1-3)) axes.
My intent is as follows: To implement this, I'd like to set up 9 sub-folders in my inbox, corresponding to one of the day/time slots I have blocked out on my calender for reviewing emails.
I would like the Power Automate flow to trigger when I move an email into one of the 9 sub-folders and I would like the Flow to make an event on my calendar at a specified time associated to each folder (e.g., Folder 1 coprresponds to tomorrow at 0830 AM; Folder 2 corresponds to tomorrow at 12:00 PM; Folder 3 corresponds to tomorrow afternoon at 4:00 PM; Folder 4 corresponds to Day 2 morning, Folder 5 is for Day 2 mid-day, etc. up to Folder 9 corresponding to Day 3 Afternoon 4:00 PM time-block).
I'm open to just about any way to accomplish this. I had thought about making a List for each of the 9 Timeblocks and then, when a new item is created in that List (upon email moved into folder), that List creates an event on my calendar with the email.
With Power Automate, there are many ways to accomplish the same thing, so I'm hoping for some guidance on an efficient way to make a flow which works as described above.
Any input or guidance is most appreciated!
Thanks,
