Start Your Day with Clarity
Neurodivergent founders often feel lost in email volume. Starting your day, you don't know what's most important or what requires immediate action. This workflow creates a daily summary in Notion of yesterday's priority emails, so you can quickly understand what needs attention and prioritize your day accordingly.
Trigger
Recurring schedule
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Action
Add content to Notion page
Deprecated: appends a single content block to a notion page or a parent block (must be page, toggle, to-do, bulleted/numbered list, callout, or quote); invoke repeatedly to add multiple blocks.
Why this helps
Without a clear priority system, ADHD brains get overwhelmed by the volume of incoming email. You feel like you're drowning in low-priority messages and can't focus on what actually matters. A daily summary provides the structure and clarity needed to start focused.
- Start each day with clear priorities from your email instead of feeling overwhelmed
- Reduce decision fatigue by having a curated list of what actually matters
- Save time by reading a summary instead of scanning your entire inbox
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Gmail and Notion to Notis.
- 2Tell Notis: 'Every morning at 7 AM, create a summary page in my Daily Briefing database showing yesterday's priority emails. Include emails from my team, clients, and any messages I starred or marked important. Show the sender, subject, and a one-line summary for each.'
- 3Notis will ask you to define what counts as priority (certain senders, starred emails, high-importance labels, etc.).
- 4Choose your Notion Daily Briefing database and notification preferences.
- 5Wait for tomorrow morning or ask Notis to generate a test summary so you can see the format.
Questions about this workflow
What time should the summary run?
Tell Notis your preferred time: 'Generate the summary at 7 AM before I start work' or 'Send it at 5 PM so I can review before tomorrow.' Notis respects your timezone.
Can I customize what counts as priority?
Completely. Define it your way: 'Show only emails from my team and clients' or 'Show any email I received after 5 PM that I might have missed' or 'Show everything I didn't already read yesterday.'
What if I want a weekly summary instead of daily?
Yes, just tell Notis to run on whatever schedule works for you: daily, weekly, or even multiple times per day if needed.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Gmail to Notion. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Gmail triggers
Notion 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.
Add multiple content blocks (bulk, user-friendly)
Efficiently adds multiple standard content blocks to a notion page in a single api call with automatic markdown parsing. the 'content' field in notionrichtext blocks now automatically detects and parses markdown formatting including headers (# ## ###), bold (**text**), italic (*text*), strikethrough (~~text~~), inline code (`code`), links ([text](url)), and more. ideal for bulk content creation, ai agents, and replacing multiple individual add page content calls. supports automatic text formatting, content splitting, and up to 100 blocks per request.
New Gmail Message Received Trigger
Triggers when a new message is received in Gmail.
Add content to Notion page
Deprecated: appends a single content block to a notion page or a parent block (must be page, toggle, to-do, bulleted/numbered list, callout, or quote); invoke repeatedly to add multiple blocks.
Append complex blocks (advanced, full control)
Appends complex blocks with full notion block structure to a parent block or page. use for advanced scenarios requiring precise control: code blocks, tables, embeds, nested children within blocks, or when working with pre-built notion block objects. requires full notion api block schema - use add multiple page content for simpler content creation.
Archive Notion Page
Archives (moves to trash) or unarchives (restores from trash) a specified notion page.
Create comment
Adds a comment to a notion page (via `parent page id`) or to an existing discussion thread (via `discussion id`); cannot create new discussion threads on specific blocks (inline comments).
Create Notion Database
Creates a new notion database as a subpage under a specified parent page with a defined properties schema; use this action exclusively for creating new databases.
Create Notion page
Creates a new empty page in a notion workspace.
Delete a block
Archives a notion block, page, or database using its id, which sets its 'archived' property to true (like moving to "trash" in the ui) and allows it to be restored later.
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