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Weekly Report: See All Drive Changes from Your Activities

Each week, Notis generates a comprehensive report of every change to your Drive files and which emails prompted them.

Trigger

Recurring schedule

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

Action

List Changes

Tool to list the changes for a user or shared drive. use when you need to track modifications to files and folders, such as creations, deletions, or permission changes. this action requires a `pagetoken` which can be initially obtained using the `get changes start page token` action or from a previous `list changes` response.

Why this helps

Project changes happen without visibility. File versioning is fragmented, and you can't easily see what evolved and when. Tracking progress manually is cognitively expensive.

  • See all Drive changes in a single weekly report
  • Understand project progress by tracking file evolution
  • Link changes to email conversations for context
  • Simplify reporting and accountability
  • Maintain visibility without manual tracking

Setup

Build it in a few focused steps.

  • 1Connect Gmail and Google Drive to Notis
  • 2Ask Notis: 'Every Monday morning, send me a report of all changes made to my Drive files last week, including who made them and which emails relate to those changes'
  • 3Choose 'Recurring Schedule' set to weekly (Monday 9 AM)
  • 4Select your Notis channel for the weekly report
  • 5Review the report and use it for weekly planning and progress tracking
  • 6Adjust to include/exclude specific projects or file types if needed

Questions about this workflow

Does this include files in shared drives?

Yes. Notis tracks changes across all your Drive access.

Can I filter to specific projects?

Absolutely. Focus the report on particular clients, project folders, or file types.

How detailed is the change tracking?

Notis shows file modifications, new files, deletions, permission changes, and sharing updates.

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Supported Triggers and Actions

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

Gmail triggers

Google Drive actions

Email Sent

Triggers when a Gmail message is sent by the authenticated user. It polls the 'SENT' label and emits metadata including sender, recipients, subject, timestamp, and thread ID.

TriggerPolling

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

New Gmail Message Received Trigger

Triggers when a new message is received in Gmail.

TriggerPolling

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.

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