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Make monthly competitor reviews easier to revisit

Keep a dated competitor research record ready for your regular strategy review.

Trigger

Recurring schedule

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

Action

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.

Why this helps

Competitor checks are often delayed until a planning meeting, leaving little time to gather useful context.

  • Give competitor research a predictable review rhythm.
  • Keep monthly snapshots easy to locate.
  • Make missing data clear before drawing conclusions.

Setup

Build it in a few focused steps.

  • 1Connect Bigpicture io and Google Drive once in the Notis portal.
  • 2Create an automation in Automations, New Automation, or tell Notis what you want from any channel.
  • 3In one instruction, specify the competitors and research questions, then ask Notis to save a dated monthly snapshot with returned insights and unknowns.
  • 4Pick a monthly schedule trigger and choose where run reports should go.
  • 5Test with one real competitor review.

Questions about this workflow

Will the monthly note identify changes?

It can compare with a prior snapshot if that baseline is available. Without one, it should report current returned findings only.

Can I set different questions for each competitor?

Yes. State the relevant questions for each competitor in the automation instruction or supplied input.

When this happens · Trigger

Do this · Action

Supported Triggers and Actions

Notis builds workflows that link Bigpicture io to Google Drive. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.

Bigpicture io triggers

Google Drive actions

Recurring trigger

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

TriggerScheduled

Add file sharing preference

Modifies sharing permissions for an existing google drive file, granting a specified role to a user, group, domain, or 'anyone'.

ActionInstant

Webhook trigger

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

TriggerInstant

Copy file

Duplicates an existing file in google drive, identified by its `file id`.

ActionInstant

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.

ActionInstant

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.

ActionInstant

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).

ActionInstant

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.

ActionInstant

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.

ActionInstant

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.

ActionInstant

Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.

Bigpicture io and Google Drive, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.

When this happens · Trigger

Do this · Action

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