Connect Affinity to Desktime

When something happens in Affinity, Notis takes the next step in Desktime. Describe what you want in plain English, or start from one of the examples below.

When this happens · Trigger

Do this · Action

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Examples

Ways Notis can move work from Affinity to Desktime

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Start a timer for investor meeting prep

Start a DeskTime project task when a webhook signals that investor meeting preparation is beginning, so the work is easier to track.

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Stop a DeskTime timer after an investor call

Stop a running DeskTime project task when a webhook signals that an investor call has ended, so tracked time does not run on by mistake.

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Review DeskTime projects alongside open Affinity deals

On a schedule, retrieve the DeskTime project list and compare it with open deal context from Affinity to flag projects needing attention.

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Create a DeskTime project for an approved deal

On a schedule, find Affinity deals that meet your stated approval criteria and create a DeskTime project with an optional initial task.

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Review tracked project and app time for deal work

On a schedule, retrieve a DeskTime employee's project and app time for a chosen date and summarize it alongside relevant Affinity deal context.

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Check your daily tracked time before pipeline review

Retrieve the current user's DeskTime details for a specific date and summarize relevant tracked work alongside Affinity pipeline context.

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Review app activity during an Affinity deal sprint

Retrieve an employee's DeskTime app tracking for a specific date and summarize what it shows alongside the relevant deal sprint context.

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Check project time across investor portfolio work

Retrieve employee project tracking for a specific date and summarize it against relevant Affinity portfolio context for a scheduled review.

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Verify DeskTime account before a pipeline review

Check DeskTime account details on a schedule and include its company and work settings context in a scheduled Affinity review.

Supported Triggers and Actions

Notis builds workflows that link Affinity to Desktime. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.

Affinity triggers

Desktime actions

Recurring trigger

Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.

TriggerScheduled

Create Project with Optional Task

Create a project, optionally with an initial task.

ActionInstant

Webhook trigger

Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.

TriggerInstant

Get Account Details

View the company's account settings, work schedule, and timezone.

ActionInstant

Get All Company Employees

View the company's employee roster, roles, and statuses.

ActionInstant

Get Employee

Retrieves one employee’s information and tracking data for a date, or the current user’s data.

ActionInstant

Get Employee Projects

View an employee's project assignments and time tracking for a date.

ActionInstant

Get Employee Apps

Retrieves an employee’s tracked app usage for a date, or the current user’s data.

ActionInstant

Get Employee Projects and Apps

View an employee's daily work, attendance, and productivity summary.

ActionInstant

Get Projects List

View all active company projects and their tasks.

ActionInstant

Trigger Types

Four ways to start an automation.

A trigger is the event that kicks a workflow off. Notis supports four kinds: an event in a connected app, an inbound webhook, a recurring schedule, and soon, your own database.

Integration triggers

Fire when something happens inside a connected app. New Notion page, Stripe charge, Linear issue: any of 1,000+ apps can start a workflow.

New Notion pageStripe chargeCalendar event

Webhook triggers

A unique URL per workflow. Anything that can send an HTTP POST can start an automation, including no-code tools that speak webhooks.

Any HTTP POSTCustom backendIoT event

Works with

ZapierPipedream

Most used

Recurring triggers

Cron-style schedules run a workflow on the clock. Daily standups, hourly syncs, business-hours-only digests: the workhorse of Notis.

Daily · 8:00HourlyWeekdays only

Coming soon

Database triggers

Watch a row, query, or threshold in your own database and fire the moment the data changes. Row inserted, value crosses a limit, query starts matching.

Row insertedValue > limitQuery match

Why AI automation

Classic automation breaks. AI adapts.

Same triggers and actions, smarter middle. AI handles the fuzziness that breaks traditional Zapier-style workflows the moment a field gets renamed.

Classic automationAI automation

Cost

$ · pay per run

$$ · AI models per run

Reliability

Breaks on schema change

Adapts to format changes

Setup

Click 8 dropdowns

Describe it in English

Handles fuzzy

Hard-coded fields only

Reads intent, summarises

Human in loop

Bolted on

Built in · approval inbox

Maintenance

You own every break

Self-heals · we own it

Ease of use

Describe it. Notis builds it.

Skip the visual builder. Tell Notis what you want, in plain English. It writes the workflow, you review and deploy.

You · in the Notis Builder

NEW

“When a row gets added to the Q4 OKRs Notion database and the status is Blocked, send a Telegram message to the owner with a summary of what's blocking, and ping me if there's no reply within 24 hours.”

Notis built this automation:

TriggerRow added to "Q4 OKRs"

Condition✦Status = "Blocked"

AI step✦Summarise the blocker in plain English

ActionDM the row owner with summary

Timeout✦No reply in 24h → ping you

Observability

Watch every run.

Notis Desktop is Mission Control for your AI automations. See every run, replay, edit, or rewind. Set approval gates so Notis pauses before destructive actions.