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Every process you run has a moment it begins. “Every Monday morning.” “Whenever a new form comes in.” “When I decide to run it.” In Workmore, that beginning is a trigger — always the first step of a process. You don’t pick a trigger because the tool needs one; you pick it because your work already has a starting point. Naming that starting point is usually the first thing you figure out when you map a process.

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The kinds you’ll reach for

  • On a schedule — “every Monday at 9am,” “the first of the month.” Use this when time is what kicks off the work.
  • On demand — you run it yourself when you need it. Good while you’re still shaping a process, or for work that doesn’t happen on a fixed clock.
  • When something arrives — an external system sends word (a new form submission, a new signup). Use this when the work starts because something happened somewhere else.

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How to choose

Ask yourself how you’d finish this sentence: “This work starts whenever…”
  • “…it’s a certain day or time” → a scheduled trigger.
  • ”…I decide to do it” → an on-demand trigger.
  • ”…X happens in another tool” → an arrival trigger.
Once the trigger is in place, everything else hangs off it: the steps that do the actual work, in order. The Quickstart walks through that end to end.