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# Record Date

This action generates a calendar date or time based on your specifications and saves it to a table or variable.

#### **Example**: Send an auto-follow-up after some days

Imagine you have built a TaskBot that sends automated messages to a list of contacts on LinkedIn. You may want your TaskBot to save the date on which it sent those messages to your table, so that you can set up a follow-up message by using [Start Condition and Set Condition](/using-zerowork/using-building-blocks/start-condition-and-set-condition.md) -> action [Before (Date) & After (Date)](/using-zerowork/using-building-blocks/start-condition-and-set-condition/before-date-and-after-date.md) which would then check when your contact received the first message.

The result of your table would look like this:

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### Video Tutorial

{% embed url="<https://youtu.be/84k-7CMjDig?si=e_6s1hbHDKBdEuT2>" %}


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