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The mindburp Zapier integration gives you 5 triggers, 2 actions and 1 search. All five triggers are instant and the app runs on Zapier's free plan. Below: what each step costs in tasks, how to connect your account, and where a mindburp Zap breaks.

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Overview

What the mindburp Zapier integration does for you

The integration links your mindburp account to Zapier. What happens to a burp, the item you track in mindburp, can start an automation: created, updated, completed, revived or deleted. Other tools can also create a burp or update one. You choose the event, then the step that follows, and Zapier runs them each time.

The next burp, opened for you. Completed Burp reports a burp you just ticked off, and Create Burp opens the follow-up one with a title you set in the Zap. A chain of work moves forward without anyone retyping it.

Burps that start life somewhere else. A row in your spreadsheet or an answer in a form can become a burp through Create Burp, as long as the Zap has something to put in the required Burp title field.

A heads-up when work comes back. Revived Burp fires when a burp moves from completed back to active, and a message in your team chat tells everyone that a finished item is open again.

What Zapier does not do here: no action is dedicated to completing, reviving or deleting a burp; those events exist only as triggers. Whether Update Burp can change a burp's state is something to check at test. The integration offers a single search, Find an Existing Burp, to reach a burp the trigger did not carry. If you are still sizing up the tool itself, see our Zapier review.

Vocabulary

Zapier words, in plain English

Eight terms come back across this page. Here is what each one means when the app on the other end is mindburp.

Zap
The automation you build on Zapier: one trigger, then one or more actions that run every time the trigger event happens.
Trigger
The event that starts the Zap, such as a burp marked completed. Once the Zap is switched on, Zapier waits for it.
Action
What the Zap does after it starts: the step that writes, sends or changes something for you, like creating a burp.
Task
The unit Zapier bills. One action that completes successfully is one task, and your plan is a count of those.
Polling vs instant
Zapier checks a polling trigger on a timer. An instant trigger is reported by the app itself the moment the event happens.
Filter
A step that lets the Zap go on only when what arrived meets the condition you set, and stops it otherwise.
Search step
A step that looks up something already in an app, so the steps after it can use what it found, like an existing burp.
Multi-step Zap
Any Zap beyond one trigger and one action. A second action, a filter or a search makes one, and it needs a paid plan.
Cost

What a mindburp Zap really costs

The trigger never costs a task, and neither does watching mindburp for events. Zapier only bills an action that completes.

  • Trigger0 tasks
  • Each successful action1 task
  • Free plan100 tasks a month, two-step Zaps
  • Premium appNo

Every successful action counts on its own, so a three-action Zap uses three times what a one-action Zap uses. A failed action is not counted, and a few actions take more than one task. The free plan gives 100 tasks a month and unlimited Zaps, each one capped at two steps; a filter or a search pushes you to a paid plan. mindburp is not a premium app, so it works from the free plan. The grid below is the interval Zapier uses for polling triggers; it does not apply to mindburp, whose triggers are all instant.

Connect

Connect your mindburp account to Zapier

  1. 01

    Open Apps and add a connection

    In your Zapier account, open the Apps page and click + Add connection. A connection is your mindburp account linked once, then reused by every step that talks to mindburp.

  2. 02

    Pick mindburp

    Type mindburp in the dialog's search box, select it, then click Add connection. You need a mindburp account, plus read or write access on anything you do not own yourself and want the Zap to touch.

  3. 03

    Sign in and grant access

    A tab opens on mindburp. Sign in, then grant Zapier access to the account. Back in the editor, the connection is ready for any mindburp trigger, action or search.

First Zap

Your first mindburp Zap, step by step

GoalWhen a burp is completed in mindburp, post a message in your team chat, but only for the burps that match a condition you set in a filter.

  1. 01

    Create the Zap and pick the trigger

    Start a new Zap, choose mindburp and Completed Burp. The filter after it makes this a multi-step Zap, so it needs a paid plan.

  2. 02

    Test on a real burp

    Run the test: Zapier brings back the three most recent items of the connected account. Look at which fields come back, since the filter will rely on them.

  3. 03

    Set the filter

    Add a Filter step from the plus icon and fill its three boxes: the field to look at, the rule, and the value to compare with. A text rule only works on text.

  4. 04

    Write the chat message

    Add your team chat and its send-message action, then build the message from values the mindburp test returned, such as the burp's title if it shows.

  5. 05

    Test each step, then publish

    Run each step once and read what came back before you go on. When the message lands where you expect, click Publish to switch the Zap on.

Triggers

mindburp triggers on Zapier

5 events start a Zap when something happens in mindburp, and 5 of them are instant: the app calls Zapier straight away, whatever your plan.

1

Completed Burp

Instant trigger

In Zapier“Triggers when a burp is completed.”

Starts your Zap when someone marks a burp as completed, so the end of one piece of work can set off whatever comes next in another tool or in mindburp itself.

How it fires
the app tells Zapier the moment it happens, so the Zap starts right away, whatever your plan
When to use it
finishing a burp should open the follow-up burp through Create Burp, or log the result in a shared spreadsheet.
Watch out
burps completed before you published the Zap are not picked up; only completions from that point start it.
2

Deleted Burp

Instant trigger

In Zapier“Triggers when a burp is deleted.”

Reacts when a burp is removed from mindburp. That lets you keep a trace of what disappeared somewhere the team can still look it up.

How it fires
the app tells Zapier the moment it happens, so the Zap starts right away, whatever your plan
When to use it
a colleague cleans up the list and you want each removal written to a log sheet rather than lost.
Watch out
check at test which details of the deleted burp still come through, before you build the steps that use them.
3

New Burp

Instant trigger

In Zapier“Triggers when a new Burp is created.”

Fires each time a burp is created in mindburp, and passes that new item to the steps that follow in your Zap.

How it fires
the app tells Zapier the moment it happens, so the Zap starts right away, whatever your plan
When to use it
every new burp should show up as a row in your planning spreadsheet or as a message to the person who coordinates the work.
Watch out
as a general precaution, a Zap that writes where its own trigger looks can set itself off again; check at test what your actions create.
4

Revived Burp

Instant trigger

In Zapier“Triggers when a burp is moved from completed to active.”

Catches a burp moving from completed back to active. Reopened work is easy to miss, and this trigger makes it visible outside mindburp.

How it fires
the app tells Zapier the moment it happens, so the Zap starts right away, whatever your plan
When to use it
a task you reported as done is reopened, and the team chat should hear about it before anyone assumes it is closed.
Watch out
check at test which fields come back on a revived burp before you write the message, so it names the right item.
5

Updated Burp

Instant trigger

In Zapier“Triggers when a burp is updated.”

Runs your Zap when an existing burp is changed, so a copy kept in another tool can follow the edit instead of going stale.

How it fires
the app tells Zapier the moment it happens, so the Zap starts right away, whatever your plan
When to use it
a spreadsheet tracks your burps for people who never open mindburp, and each edit should reach it.
Watch out
if a sudden batch of changes comes through, Zapier's flood protection can hold those runs back, and each completed action costs a task.
Actions

mindburp actions on Zapier

mindburp gives you 2 actions. For each one: what it does for you, when to reach for it, and what to watch out for.

1

Create Burp

Action

In Zapier“Creates a new burp”

Adds a new burp to your mindburp account from data that arrived earlier in the Zap, so work captured elsewhere lands in your list.

When to use it
a form answer, a spreadsheet row or a finished burp should turn into a fresh item to track.
Watch out
Burp title is required; map it from a step that always carries a value.
2

Update Burp

Action

In Zapier“Updates an existing new burp”

Changes a burp that already exists, so a correction made in another tool reaches mindburp without being typed twice.

When to use it
a detail changes in your spreadsheet and the matching burp should follow.
Watch out
the step has to know which burp to change; put Find an Existing Burp before it if no earlier step carries the burp, and check at test what it asks for.
Searches

mindburp search on Zapier

1 search step looks for data that already exists in mindburp, so a later step can use it.

A search step finds a burp that already exists, so the steps after it can work on that burp. Searches sit at the bottom of the Action event list, under SEARCH, and some fields offer + Add search step to insert one just before. Three settings decide what happens when the result is not a single clean match.

1

Find an Existing Burp

Search

In Zapier“Finds an existing burp”

Looks up a burp already in your mindburp account and hands it to the next steps, which is how a Zap reaches a burp no earlier step carried.

When to use it
right before Update Burp, when the trigger comes from another tool that does not know the burp.
Watch out
whether the search wants an exact value is decided by mindburp, so test it on a real burp.

The three settings every search exposes

  1. Successful if no search results are found?
    Left on its default, a search that finds nothing stops the Zap there and skips the steps that depended on it. Switched on, the Zap carries on with no result.
  2. Create X if it doesn't exist yet?
    Ticking this box turns a search into a find-or-create and asks for the fields needed to create the missing item. mindburp lists no find-or-create variant on Zapier, so check at test whether the box shows.
  3. If multiple search results are found?
    Three ways out when several items match: keep the first one, which is the default, stop the Zap, or hand all of them on.
When it breaks

When a mindburp Zap breaks

Zapier links no help article and no rate limit to mindburp. What breaks these Zaps comes from how Zapier works in general.

Four cases cover most of it. If your Zap stops for a reason these do not explain, see our Zapier troubleshooting guide.

  • Older burps stay out

    A Zap only reacts to what happens after you switch it on. Burps created, completed or deleted before that are never picked up, and moving them is a separate job.

  • A Zap that keeps restarting itself

    As a general rule, a Zap that writes where its own trigger looks can set itself off again and burn tasks. Keep what you read and what you write apart, or filter.

  • A burst after a bulk import

    When a trigger suddenly reports a huge batch, after a bulk import or a migration, Zapier's flood protection can hold those runs back.

  • A search that comes back empty

    With the default setting, Find an Existing Burp stops the Zap when nothing matches, and the Update Burp step after it is skipped.
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FAQ

mindburp Zapier integration: common questions

01Is the mindburp Zapier integration free?
Yes, it runs on Zapier's free plan, because mindburp is not a premium app. The free plan gives 100 tasks a month and an unlimited number of Zaps, each one limited to two steps: one trigger and one action. Completed Burp followed by Create Burp fits that limit exactly. Add a filter to keep only some burps, a Find an Existing Burp step, or a second action, and the Zap becomes multi-step, which needs a paid plan. Count the steps of the Zap you have in mind before you pick a plan.
02How many tasks does a mindburp Zap use?
One task per action that completes, nothing for the trigger. A burp being created, completed or revived costs zero on its own; Zapier bills only what the Zap does next. Each successful action is counted separately, so a Zap that creates a burp and then posts in your team chat uses two tasks per run. A failed action is not counted. A few apps and actions take more than one task when they complete. If your team completes a lot of burps, a filter early in the Zap keeps the actions, and the bill, to the burps that matter.
03Do mindburp triggers run in real time?
Yes. All five mindburp triggers are instant: mindburp tells Zapier when the event happens, and the Zap starts right away, whatever your plan. The polling interval grid, 15 minutes on the free plan, does not apply to this app. In the editor, a Zap built on an instant trigger shows a lightning bolt. The type comes from the app and cannot be switched from the editor. So a free-plan Zap on New Burp or Revived Burp does not wait for a scheduled check.
04What do you need to connect mindburp to Zapier?
A mindburp account, plus read or write access on anything you do not own yourself and want the Zap to touch. Then: open the Apps page of your Zapier account, click + Add connection, search for mindburp in the dialog and pick it, click Add connection, sign in to mindburp in the tab that opens, and grant Zapier access to the account. The connection is reused by every mindburp step afterwards. If you plan to create burps, also check that the step before Create Burp gives you something to put in the required Burp title.
05Can a Zap mark a mindburp burp as completed?
Not with a dedicated action. Completing, reviving and deleting a burp exist on Zapier only as triggers: Completed Burp, Revived Burp and Deleted Burp react to those events, they do not cause them. The two actions are Create Burp and Update Burp. Whether Update Burp can change a burp's state depends on the fields mindburp shows in that step, so open it and check at test before you design a Zap around it. If it cannot, the completion stays a manual click in mindburp, and Zapier handles what follows.
06What if the mindburp operation you want is not listed?
Then the integration cannot do it as such. The mindburp page on Zapier shows the current list of triggers, actions and searches, and the editor offers nothing beyond it. Before dropping the idea, see whether two existing steps get there together: Find an Existing Burp followed by Update Burp can cover edits that look missing at first; check it at test. Deleting a burp is not an action in the current list, so that stays a manual step in mindburp.
07Zapier, Make or n8n for mindburp?
Pick on criteria, not on a ranking. On Zapier, mindburp brings 8 ready-made operations with five instant triggers, which suits a team that mostly reacts to burp events and builds from the editor. If the step you need is not among those 8, check whether Make or n8n offer mindburp with it before deciding. Then look at volume: on Zapier each successful action is a task, so a busy trigger such as Updated Burp feeding two actions adds up, and that count decides the plan.
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