Let your team choose the next Are.na research direction
Summarize a few emerging themes, then let the team make a quick choice in Telegram.
Trigger
Recurring schedule
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Action
Send Poll
Send a native poll to a telegram chat using the bot api.
Why this helps
Choosing what to explore next can stall when everyone has to review the full collection first.
- Reduce a broad collection to a few clear options.
- Collect a lightweight team preference in chat.
- Give the next research step a visible starting point.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Are.na and Telegram once in Notis.
- 2Create an automation in Automations or by telling Notis what you want.
- 3Ask Notis to identify a few distinct themes in a named Are.na channel and turn them into a poll about what to explore next.
- 4Pick a recurring schedule and choose where run reports should go.
- 5Test with one real channel and a Telegram group.
Questions about this workflow
Can Notis invent research themes if it cannot read the channel?
No. The themes must come from accessible channel content; provide the relevant material if it is not returned.
Can the poll decide the project automatically?
The poll gathers votes. A person can review the result and decide what to do next.
When this happens · Trigger
Do this · Action
Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Are.na to Telegram. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Are.na triggers
Telegram actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Answer Callback Query
Use this method to send answers to callback queries sent from inline keyboards. the answer will be displayed to the user as a notification at the top of the chat screen or as an alert.
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Delete Message
Delete a message, including service messages, with certain limitations.
Edit Message
Edit text messages sent by the bot.
Export Chat Invite Link
Generate a new primary invite link for a chat; any previously generated primary link is revoked. the bot must be an administrator in the chat for this to work and must have the appropriate administrator rights.
Forward Message
Forward messages of any kind. service messages can't be forwarded.
Get Chat Info
Get up to date information about the chat (current name of the user for one-on-one conversations, current username of a user, group or channel, etc.).
Get Chat Administrators
Get a list of administrators in a chat. on success, returns an array of chatmember objects that contains information about all chat administrators except other bots.
Get Chat History
Get chat history messages. note: this uses the getupdates method with specific parameters to retrieve historical messages.
Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Are.na and Telegram, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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