Find a clear block for donor outreach
Give Notis the calendars and planning window, and it will return open blocks you can use for uninterrupted donor outreach.
Trigger
Recurring schedule
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Action
Find free slots
Finds free/busy time slots in google calendars for specified calendars within a defined time range (defaults to the current day utc if `time min`/`time max` are omitted), enhancing busy intervals with event details; `time min` must precede `time max` if both are provided.
Why this helps
Donor outreach gets postponed when it must compete with reactive work and no time is set aside for it.
- Find candidate blocks for concentrated outreach work.
- Review availability across calendars that affect your day.
- Make planning time more concrete before committing to it.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Blackbaud and Google Calendar once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation from Automations, New Automation, or describe it to Notis in plain language.
- 3In one instruction, ask Notis to find free slots of the requested duration on specified calendars within the supplied donor outreach planning window.
- 4Pick notis_cron and set a recurring schedule for finding time.
- 5Choose a report channel, then test with one realistic planning window and review the candidate blocks.
Questions about this workflow
Will this reserve the focus time?
No. It finds open slots and returns them for review. Create an event for a selected slot separately.
Does Notis get donor lists from Blackbaud?
No donor list behavior is implied here. The workflow uses the supplied planning window and finds calendar availability.
Can I search multiple calendars?
Yes. Specify the calendars that should be considered, and ensure they are accessible to the connected Google Calendar account.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Blackbaud to Google Calendar. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Blackbaud triggers
Google Calendar actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Insert Calendar into List
Inserts an existing calendar into the user's calendar list.
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Update Calendar List Entry
Updates an existing entry on the user\'s calendar list.
Delete Calendar
Deletes a secondary calendar. use calendars.clear for clearing all events on primary calendars.
Update Calendar
Updates metadata for a calendar.
Clear Calendar
Clears a primary calendar. this operation deletes all events associated with the primary calendar of an account.
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.
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.
Create a calendar
Creates a new, empty google calendar with the specified title (summary).
Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Blackbaud and Google Calendar, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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