Bring relevant notes into view before review time
Have Notis search Drive before your review so you can start with the materials you meant to revisit.
Trigger
Recurring schedule
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Action
Find file
Tool to list or search for files and folders in google drive. use when you need to find specific files based on query criteria or list contents of a drive/folder.
Why this helps
Useful research and past notes are easy to overlook when the review begins with a manual search.
- Bring related notes to attention before review time.
- Reduce time spent searching across Drive.
- Support a more prepared review session.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Alpaca and Google Drive once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation or describe the desired outcome to Notis.
- 3Tell Notis what terms to search for and how to present matching files.
- 4Choose a recurring schedule and select a run report destination.
- 5Test with search terms that should return known files.
Questions about this workflow
Will this search understand my full Alpaca account activity?
No. The scheduled trigger does not provide Alpaca activity. The search uses the terms you specify and the files available in Drive.
Can I change the search terms later?
Yes. Update the automation instruction to reflect the terms you want Notis to search.
When this happens · Trigger
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Alpaca to Google Drive. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Alpaca triggers
Google Drive actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Add file sharing preference
Modifies sharing permissions for an existing google drive file, granting a specified role to a user, group, domain, or 'anyone'.
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Copy file
Duplicates an existing file in google drive, identified by its `file id`.
Create Comment
Tool to create a comment on a file. use when you need to add a new comment to a specific file in google drive.
Create Shared Drive
Tool to create a new shared drive. use when you need to programmatically create a new shared drive for collaboration or storage.
Create File or Folder
Creates a new file or folder with metadata. use to create empty files or folders, or files with content by providing it in the request body (though this action primarily focuses on metadata creation).
Create a File from Text
Creates a new file in google drive from provided text content (up to 10mb), supporting various formats including automatic conversion to google workspace types.
Create a folder
Creates a new folder in google drive, optionally within a parent folder specified by its id or name; if a parent name is provided but not found, the action will fail.
Create Reply
Tool to create a reply to a comment in google drive. use when you need to respond to an existing comment on a file.
Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Alpaca and Google Drive, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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