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Plan Marvin work around your real weekly capacity

Start the week with a clear view of when your calendar is already occupied.

Trigger

Recurring schedule

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

Action

Query Free/Busy Information

Returns free/busy information for a set of calendars.

Why this helps

A long Marvin task list can be hard to plan when the week's actual availability is unclear.

  • See occupied periods across the week at a glance.
  • Make task planning fit around existing commitments.
  • Reduce the chance of planning more work than the week can hold.

Setup

Build it in a few focused steps.

  • 1Connect Amazing Marvin and Google Calendar once in the Notis portal.
  • 2Create an automation in Automations, New Automation, and give it a name.
  • 3Tell Notis to retrieve free and busy information for the coming week and summarize busy periods that matter when planning Marvin work.
  • 4Pick a recurring schedule as the trigger and choose where run reports should go.
  • 5Test with one real week and compare the summary with your calendar.

Questions about this workflow

Will it show event details?

This action returns free and busy information. Use a calendar event listing when event details are needed.

Can it choose tasks for each open period?

Ask Notis to make suggestions only when the Marvin task information and your scheduling preferences support a grounded match.

When this happens · Trigger

Do this · Action

Supported Triggers and Actions

Notis builds workflows that link Amazing Marvin to Google Calendar. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.

Amazing Marvin triggers

Google Calendar actions

Recurring trigger

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

TriggerScheduled

Insert Calendar into List

Inserts an existing calendar into the user's calendar list.

ActionInstant

Webhook trigger

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

TriggerInstant

Update Calendar List Entry

Updates an existing entry on the user\'s calendar list.

ActionInstant

Delete Calendar

Deletes a secondary calendar. use calendars.clear for clearing all events on primary calendars.

ActionInstant

Update Calendar

Updates metadata for a calendar.

ActionInstant

Clear Calendar

Clears a primary calendar. this operation deletes all events associated with the primary calendar of an account.

ActionInstant

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.

ActionInstant

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.

ActionInstant

Create a calendar

Creates a new, empty google calendar with the specified title (summary).

ActionInstant

Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.

Amazing Marvin and Google Calendar, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.

When this happens · Trigger

Do this · Action

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