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Get a weekly review of your Are.na research

See what you collected this week without reopening every channel and link.

Trigger

Recurring schedule

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

Action

Batch get spreadsheet

Retrieves data from specified cell ranges in a google spreadsheet; ensure the spreadsheet has at least one worksheet and any explicitly referenced sheet names in ranges exist.

Why this helps

A growing research collection is easy to capture and easy to forget to revisit.

  • Bring recent references back into view.
  • Get a concise summary from the rows available in the sheet.
  • Build a dependable review habit without manual searching.

Setup

Build it in a few focused steps.

  • 1Connect Are.na and Google Sheets once in the Notis portal.
  • 2Create an automation in Automations, New Automation, or tell Notis from any channel.
  • 3Ask Notis to read the research log and summarize recent entries for a weekly review.
  • 4Choose a recurring schedule and select where run reports should go.
  • 5Test with one real spreadsheet range and check the summary.

Questions about this workflow

Does this know which references were added this week?

Only if the sheet contains dates or other information that identifies recency. Otherwise Notis can summarize the available rows without claiming a time period.

Does this write the summary into Sheets?

This workflow retrieves spreadsheet values for a summary. It does not write the summary back to the sheet.

When this happens · Trigger

Do this · Action

Supported Triggers and Actions

Notis builds workflows that link Are.na to Google Sheets. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.

Are.na triggers

Google Sheets actions

Recurring trigger

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

TriggerScheduled

Add Sheet to Spreadsheet

Adds a new sheet (worksheet) to a spreadsheet. use this tool to create a new tab within an existing google sheet, optionally specifying its title, index, size, and other properties.

ActionInstant

Webhook trigger

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

TriggerInstant

Aggregate Column Data

Searches for rows where a specific column matches a value and performs mathematical operations on data from another column.

ActionInstant

Append Dimension

Tool to append new rows or columns to a sheet, increasing its size. use when you need to add empty rows or columns to an existing sheet.

ActionInstant

Batch get spreadsheet

Retrieves data from specified cell ranges in a google spreadsheet; ensure the spreadsheet has at least one worksheet and any explicitly referenced sheet names in ranges exist.

ActionInstant

Batch update spreadsheet

Updates a specified range in a google sheet with given values, or appends them as new rows if `first cell location` is omitted; ensure the target sheet exists and the spreadsheet contains at least one worksheet.

ActionInstant

Batch Update Values by Data Filter

Tool to update values in ranges matching data filters. use when you need to update specific data in a google sheet based on criteria rather than fixed cell ranges.

ActionInstant

Clear Basic Filter

Tool to clear the basic filter from a sheet. use when you need to remove an existing basic filter from a specific sheet within a google spreadsheet.

ActionInstant

Clear spreadsheet values

Clears cell content (preserving formatting and notes) from a specified a1 notation range in a google spreadsheet; the range must correspond to an existing sheet and cells.

ActionInstant

Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.

Are.na and Google Sheets, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.

When this happens · Trigger

Do this · Action

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