Anchor recurring review reminders to your local time
Run on a schedule and use the current time in your chosen timezone as the reference for a review reminder.
Trigger
Recurring schedule
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Action
Get current date and time
Gets the current date and time, allowing for a specific timezone offset.
Why this helps
A reminder based on UTC can land at an inconvenient local time when you are planning around your own workday.
- Use an explicit timezone when planning a review.
- Reduce confusion between UTC and local scheduling.
- Run a predictable calendar workflow on a recurring schedule.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Alpaca and Google Calendar once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create a named automation in Automations, New Automation.
- 3Tell Notis to get the current time for your specified timezone and use it as the reference for the review reminder.
- 4Choose a recurring schedule trigger and a report channel.
- 5Run one real example and verify the timezone and resulting reminder.
Questions about this workflow
Does this check market hours or prices?
No. The listed action returns the current date and time for a timezone. It does not provide market hours or Alpaca data.
Which timezone should I use?
Specify the timezone offset or convention you want in the prompt, and check the test run at a time when the local conversion is clear.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Alpaca to Google Calendar. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Alpaca triggers
Google Calendar actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Insert Calendar into List
Inserts an existing calendar into the user's calendar list.
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Update Calendar List Entry
Updates an existing entry on the user\'s calendar list.
Delete Calendar
Deletes a secondary calendar. use calendars.clear for clearing all events on primary calendars.
Update Calendar
Updates metadata for a calendar.
Clear Calendar
Clears a primary calendar. this operation deletes all events associated with the primary calendar of an account.
Create Event
Creates an event on a google calendar, needing rfc3339 utc start/end times (end after start) and write access to the calendar. by default, adds the organizer as an attendee unless exclude organizer is set to true.
Delete event
Deletes a specified event by `event id` from a google calendar (`calendar id`); this action is idempotent and raises a 404 error if the event is not found.
Create a calendar
Creates a new, empty google calendar with the specified title (summary).
Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Alpaca and Google Calendar, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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