# Create Your First Destination

Learn how to create a destination — a unique email address that saves forwarded emails to Notion, Google Sheets, Google Drive, Airtable, Linear, or Trello.

Updated 2026-08-12  
Canonical: https://quicktion.io/need-help/create-first-destination

A destination is a unique email address (like `abc123@in.quicktion.io`) linked to a specific database, spreadsheet, board, or Drive folder. Any email forwarded to that address gets saved automatically to your connected tool.

You can create multiple destinations for different purposes -- one for receipts, one for newsletters, one for client emails, and so on.

## Prerequisites

Before creating a destination, you need to have connected at least one integration: [connect your Notion workspace](/need-help/connect-notion-workspace), [connect your Google account](/need-help/connect-google-account), [connect your Airtable account](/need-help/connect-airtable-account), [connect your Linear workspace](/need-help/connect-linear-workspace), or [connect your Trello workspace](/need-help/connect-trello-workspace). One Google connection covers both Google Sheets and [Google Drive](/need-help/connect-google-drive-workspace) destinations.

## Create a Destination

1. Sign in to your Quicktion dashboard at [quicktion.io](https://quicktion.io).
2. Click **New Destination**.
3. Select the **integration** you want to use (the workspace or account you connected earlier).
4. Pick the specific **database, spreadsheet, Drive folder, table, team, or board** where emails should be saved.
5. Click **Create**.

You'll now see your new destination with its unique forwarding address (e.g., `abc123@in.quicktion.io`). Copy this address -- you'll need it to start forwarding emails.

## Configure Property Mappings

After creating a destination, you can configure how email fields map to your destination's properties or columns. This controls where the subject, sender, date, and body end up.

By default, Quicktion maps:

- **Subject** to the page title
- **Sender** to an email property (if one exists)
- **Date** to a date property (if one exists)
- **Body** to the page content (Notion blocks)

You can change these mappings and set default values in the destination settings. For more details, see the help articles on property mappings and default values.

Google Drive destinations skip this step. There are no properties to map, because emails are saved as files: each one becomes a subfolder holding the message as a PDF, the raw HTML, and the attachments. What you configure instead is the folder and the subfolder naming pattern. See [connect Google Drive](/need-help/connect-google-drive-workspace).

## Optional: Enable AI Processing

Once your destination is set up, you can optionally enable [AI Processing](/need-help/enable-ai-processing) to summarize email bodies and extract structured data into your properties automatically. AI Processing is included with Pro and works with Notion, Google Sheets, Airtable, Linear, and Trello destinations. Google Drive destinations save the email as it arrived, so AI processing doesn't apply to them.

## Test Your Destination

Send a test email to make sure everything works:

1. Open your email client (Gmail, Outlook, or any other).
2. Forward any email to your destination address (the `abc123@in.quicktion.io` address you copied earlier).
3. Wait a few seconds, then check your destination.

You should see a new record with the email's subject, sender, date, and body content.

## If the Email Doesn't Appear

- **Check the destination address** -- Make sure you forwarded to the correct address. Even a small typo will prevent delivery.
- **Wait a moment** -- Emails typically arrive in Notion within seconds, but it can occasionally take up to a minute.
- **Check your Quicktion dashboard** -- The activity log shows the status of processed emails. Look for any errors there.
- **Verify access permissions** -- Make sure Quicktion still has access to the target database, spreadsheet, or board. If access was revoked, reconnect from the dashboard.

## Next Steps

Now that your destination is working, you can:

- **Set up auto-forwarding rules** in Gmail or Outlook so emails are sent to Quicktion automatically, without manual forwarding.
- **Create more destinations** for different databases or use cases. If a new one should work like an existing one, use the duplicate button on the Destinations page (or "Duplicate destination" in the Gmail add-on) to copy its settings, then point the copy wherever you like.
- **Customize property mappings** to control exactly how email data is stored.

For detailed setup guides by destination type, see [Save Emails to Notion](/save-emails-to-notion), [Save Emails to Google Sheets](/save-emails-to-google-sheets), [Save Emails to Google Drive](/save-emails-to-google-drive), [Save Emails to Airtable](/save-emails-to-airtable), [Save Emails to Linear](/save-emails-to-linear), or [Save Emails to Trello](/save-emails-to-trello).