A rule links a hook to an event from a connected account, such as a new email, a message or an upcoming meeting. This page shows where rules live and how to read what a hook did.
Mac appIn developmentSwitched off for every customer. On the Mac it is called automation triggers, and comes with a gallery of ready-made automations and automations Haruno drafts in a chat. The Scheduled screen stays time-based only.
Windows appAvailableRules that start a hook are edited in the advanced view.
In development in the Mac app. It is not available to customers yet. Do not promise it.
A hook says what Haruno should do. A rule says when. Each rule links one hook to one kind of event from one connector.
Rules live in Settings ▸ Connectors, on the connector the events come from. They are set up in the advanced view. In the normal view you cannot edit them, but the ones you already made keep running.
Add a rule
Make the hook first
Create the hook on the Hooks page. If there is none, the rules section says: Create a hook on the Hooks page first, then add a rule here.
Open the connector
Go to Settings ▸ Connectors and open the connector, such as Gmail. Its Rules section lists the words you can use in a hook's message template, such as {from} and {subject}.
Press Add rule
Choose the Hook and the Trigger, fill in any filter, and press Save.
A rule: which hook, which trigger, and any filter.
The Enabled switch turns a rule on or off. Remove deletes it.
What can start a hook
Connector
Triggers
Gmail
Every event (each new email), or Matching event with a From regex and a Subject regex
Google Calendar and Outlook Calendar
Upcoming event, with Lead minutes for how early, or New event. Both can filter by From regex and Subject regex.
Discord
Every event, Command (messages that use a command word you choose), or Matching event with Message matches (regex)
Telegram
Every event, or Command
A regex is a pattern for matching text. Leave a filter empty and it matches everything. For a Command rule, type the word, such as review, in the Command field.
See what a hook did
Press Open conversation on the rule. Haruno opens the hook's own conversation in Chat, so you can read what it saw and what it replied. Each rule keeps one conversation that carries on from message to message. Until the hook has handled an event there is no conversation yet, and nothing opens.
A hook's conversation is kept out of History and out of search. It holds whatever arrived, such as email subjects, senders and login codes, so it should not sit in your list of chats. Open conversation is the way to read it. You cannot branch it into a new chat.
Deleting a rule deletes its conversation
When you delete a rule, Haruno removes the conversation it kept, so the messages it held do not end up in History.