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Commit Digests in Your Inbox

When commits are pushed to your repository, Notis emails you a digest with the commit messages, authors, and links—so you see code changes in a single consolidated email instead of multiple alerts.

Trigger

Commit Event

Triggered when a new commit is pushed to a repository.

Action

Send Email

Sends an email via gmail api using the authenticated user's google profile display name, requiring `is html=true` if the body contains html and valid `s3key`, `mimetype`, `name` for any attachment.

Why this helps

Commit notifications create constant noise in GitHub's feed, especially in active repos, and developers end up ignoring them or disabling notifications entirely, missing important code changes.

  • Stay informed of code changes without disabling all notifications
  • Use email as your code review queue instead of constantly checking GitHub
  • Quickly scan commit messages and authors to understand recent activity
  • Reduce context-switching by batching commit notifications

Setup

Build it in a few focused steps.

  • 1Connect GitHub and Gmail to your Notis account
  • 2Tell Notis: 'When commits are pushed, send me an email digest with commit messages, author names, and links to each commit'
  • 3Select 'Commit Event' as your trigger, optionally filtering to specific branches
  • 4Choose email as your notification destination
  • 5Push a test commit and verify the notification arrives in Gmail

Questions about this workflow

Will I get one email per commit or a batched digest?

By default, you get one email per push event (which might contain multiple commits). You can ask Notis to batch hourly or daily.

What information is included?

Commit message, author name, timestamp, and a direct link to view the commit and its diff on GitHub.

Can I filter by branch or author?

Yes, tell Notis to only alert on commits to 'main', or commits by specific team members.

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Supported Triggers and Actions

Notis builds workflows that link GitHub to Gmail. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.

GitHub triggers

Gmail actions

New Workflow Artifact Created

Triggers when a new workflow artifact is created in a GitHub repository. Monitors for newly created GitHub Actions workflow artifacts. Optionally filters by artifact name to restrict monitoring to specific artifacts.

TriggerPolling

Modify email labels

Adds and/or removes specified gmail labels for a message; ensure `message id` and all `label ids` are valid (use 'listlabels' for custom label ids).

ActionInstant

Branch Changed

Triggers when a GitHub branch changes. Monitors a specific branch for: - New commits pushed (head commit SHA changes) - Protection status toggled (branch becomes protected or unprotected) - Protection settings changed, including: required status checks and their enforcement level, admin enforcement, required pull request reviews (dismiss stale reviews, code owner reviews, approving review count, last push approval), required linear history, force push allowance, deletion allowance, conversation resolution, branch locking, and fork syncing.

TriggerPolling

Create email draft

Creates a gmail email draft, supporting to/cc/bcc, subject, plain/html body (ensure `is html=true` for html), attachments, and threading.

ActionInstant

New Branch Created

Triggers when a new branch is created in a GitHub repository. Detects newly created branches. Deleted branches do not fire events.

TriggerPolling

Create label

Creates a new label with a unique name in the specified user's gmail account.

ActionInstant

Check Run Status / Conclusion Changed

Triggers when a specific GitHub check run changes its status or conclusion. Monitors a single check run for changes to: status (queued, in_progress, completed, etc.), conclusion (success, failure, neutral, cancelled, skipped, timed_out, action_required), started_at, and completed_at.

TriggerPolling

Delete Draft

Permanently deletes a specific gmail draft using its id; ensure the draft exists and the user has necessary permissions for the given `user id`.

ActionInstant

Check Suite Status / Conclusion Changed

Triggers when a GitHub check suite changes its status or conclusion for a given ref. Monitors all check suites associated with a git reference (branch, tag, or commit SHA) for changes to status (queued, in_progress, completed, etc.) and conclusion (success, failure, neutral, cancelled, skipped, timed_out, action_required, startup_failure, stale). Optionally filters by GitHub App ID.

TriggerPolling

Delete message

Permanently deletes a specific email message by its id from a gmail mailbox; for `user id`, use 'me' for the authenticated user or an email address to which the authenticated user has delegated access.

ActionInstant

New Code Scanning Alert Created

Triggers when a new code scanning alert is created in a repository. Fires an event for each newly created code scanning alert detected in the configured repository. Alerts can be filtered by Git reference, scanning tool, state, and severity. The payload includes the alert number, rule details, tool information, state, severity, and the location of the most recent instance.

TriggerPolling

Fetch emails

Fetches a list of email messages from a gmail account, supporting filtering, pagination, and optional full content retrieval.

ActionInstant

New Repository Collaborator Added

Triggers when a new collaborator is added to a GitHub repository. Monitors the full list of collaborators on a repository and fires an event for each newly added collaborator. The payload includes the collaborator's GitHub username, account ID, profile URL, avatar URL, permission flags (pull, triage, push, maintain, admin), and assigned role name.

TriggerPolling

Fetch message by message ID

Fetches a specific email message by its id, provided the `message id` exists and is accessible to the authenticated `user id`.

ActionInstant

Commit Event

Triggered when a new commit is pushed to a repository.

TriggerInstant

Fetch Message by Thread ID

Retrieves messages from a gmail thread using its `thread id`, where the thread must be accessible by the specified `user id`.

ActionInstant

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