Reserve Outlook focus time for newly assigned GitHub issues
Give incoming work a place on the calendar before it becomes mental clutter.
Trigger
New Issue Assigned to Me
Triggers when a new issue is assigned to the authenticated user. Fires an event for each GitHub issue that is newly assigned to the authenticated user. Pull requests are automatically excluded -- only true issues are emitted. Issues can optionally be filtered by labels and state. The payload includes the issue number, title, body, state, labels, assignees, creator, repository details, and timestamps.
Action
Create Calendar Event
Creates a new outlook calendar event, ensuring `start datetime` is chronologically before `end datetime`.
Why this helps
New assignments compete with everything else when they have no protected time.
- Turns assignments into a time cue
- Protects planning attention
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect GitHub and Outlook through Notis.
- 2Create an automation asking Notis to schedule a short focus block for each issue newly assigned to you.
- 3Pick the assigned-issue trigger, choose the channel for reports, and test by assigning yourself an issue.
Questions about this workflow
Will it create calendar events?
Yes, the action creates a new Outlook calendar event.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link GitHub to Outlook. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
GitHub triggers
Outlook 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.
Add mail attachment
Tool to add an attachment to an email message. use when you have a message id and need to attach a small (<3 mb) file or reference.
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.
Create calendar
Tool to create a new calendar in the signed-in user's mailbox. use when organizing events into a separate calendar.
New Branch Created
Triggers when a new branch is created in a GitHub repository. Detects newly created branches. Deleted branches do not fire events.
Create contact folder
Tool to create a new contact folder in the user's mailbox. use when needing to organize contacts into custom folders.
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.
Create Email Rule
Create email rule filter with conditions and actions
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.
Create mail folder
Tool to create a new mail folder. use when you need to organize email into a new folder.
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.
Create master category
Tool to create a new category in the user's master category list. use after selecting a unique display name.
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.
Delete mail folder
Delete a mail folder from the user's mailbox. use when you need to remove an existing mail folder.
Commit Event
Triggered when a new commit is pushed to a repository.
Download Outlook attachment
Downloads a specific file attachment from an email message in a microsoft outlook mailbox; the attachment must contain 'contentbytes' (binary data) and not be a link or embedded item.
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