Bring Beeminder account context into document comment follow-up
A new comment can trigger a quick review of Beeminder account details, keeping follow-up informed by your current tracking context.
Trigger
Comment Added (Docs/Sheets/Slides)
Triggers when a new comment is added to Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides.
Action
Get Beeminder User Information
Tool to retrieve information about a specified beeminder user. use when you need to fetch details like timezone, goals, urgency, or deleted goals after authenticating successfully.
Why this helps
Comments can create follow-up work, but the details needed to judge urgency may be scattered across tools.
- Review account details when a new document comment arrives.
- Keep comment follow-up and goal context in one run report.
- Reduce the effort of checking Beeminder separately.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Google Drive and Beeminder once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation in Automations, New Automation, and give it a name.
- 3Describe in one instruction how Notis should summarize the new comment with retrieved Beeminder user information.
- 4Choose the Google Drive Comment Added trigger and select where run reports should go.
- 5Test with one real comment and check that the report includes useful context.
Questions about this workflow
What Beeminder details can this retrieve?
The action retrieves information available for the specified Beeminder user, such as timezone, goals, urgency, or deleted goals after authentication.
Does this decide whether a comment is urgent?
Notis can summarize the comment and available account information, but it needs your instruction for how to assess urgency and any extra context you want considered.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Google Drive to Beeminder. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Google Drive triggers
Beeminder actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Authenticate and Redirect User
Tool to authenticate a user and redirect them to a given url. use when sending a user into the beeminder web ui directly after oauth or token validation.
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Create Charge
Tool to create a new charge for a user. use when billing a user outside of goal pledges; supports dryrun mode.
Comment Added (Docs/Sheets/Slides)
Triggers when a new comment is added to Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides.
Get all goals
Tool to retrieve all goals for a specified user. use when listing a user's active goals.
File Created
Triggers when a new file is created in Google Drive.
Get Archived Goals
Tool to retrieve archived goals for a specified user. use when you need to inspect a user's past archived goals.
File Deleted or Trashed
Triggers when a file is moved to trash or permanently deleted in Drive.
Get Beeminder User Information
Tool to retrieve information about a specified beeminder user. use when you need to fetch details like timezone, goals, urgency, or deleted goals after authenticating successfully.
File Shared (Permissions Added)
Triggers when new sharing permissions are granted to a file or folder. Uses Drive's `changes.list` endpoint with inline `permissions` in the `fields` mask so each change carries the file's current permission set provider-atomically. We diff that against `seen_permission_keys` to identify newly added grants. Drive page tokens are the primary cursor; if Drive rejects a stored token, the trigger raises `PollingTriggerError` without clearing state rather than silently re-baselining and dropping events. Limitation: truly ephemeral permissions (added and revoked between two polls without any other file modification in between) are not detected. Drive Activity API would catch those but requires an additional OAuth scope and a different payload contract.
File Updated
Triggers when a file's metadata or content changes in Google Drive.
Google Drive Changes
Triggers when changes are detected in a Google Drive.
Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Google Drive and Beeminder, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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