Check calendar availability for your planned work windows
Keep a clear view of open time by checking the calendar windows that matter to your week.
Trigger
Recurring schedule
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Action
Check calendar availability
Retrieves free/busy availability for a specified calendar to aid scheduling without revealing event details; requires an existing, accessible calendar, noting that data granularity can vary.
Why this helps
Founders have to reopen calendar views repeatedly to see whether protected time remains available.
- Review free and busy time on a predictable cadence.
- Keep the report limited to availability rather than event details.
- Spend less time reopening calendar views.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Cal once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation in Automations, New Automation, and name it.
- 3Describe the calendars and time windows to check, supplying those details in your instruction.
- 4Pick a recurring schedule trigger and choose where run reports go.
- 5Test with one real window and confirm the calendar is accessible.
Questions about this workflow
Can the workflow know my preferred focus hours?
Only if you provide the hours in your instruction. The availability action checks the specified calendar and time context.
Will it reveal what is already booked?
No. It returns free and busy availability without event details.
When this happens · Trigger
Do this · Action
Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Google Drive to Cal. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Google Drive triggers
Cal actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Add member to team
Adds a new member to a specified team within an organization by creating a team membership.
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Add organization attribute option
Adds a new option to an organization's attribute, requiring a display `value` and a `slug` unique for that attribute.
Comment Added (Docs/Sheets/Slides)
Triggers when a new comment is added to Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides.
Delete oauth client webhook
Permanently deletes a specific webhook subscription of an oauth client in the cal application, stopping its notifications.
File Created
Triggers when a new file is created in Google Drive.
Cancel booking via uid
Cancels an existing and active cal.com booking using its unique identifier (uid).
File Deleted or Trashed
Triggers when a file is moved to trash or permanently deleted in Drive.
Check calendar availability
Retrieves free/busy availability for a specified calendar to aid scheduling without revealing event details; requires an existing, accessible calendar, noting that data granularity can vary.
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.
Check gcal synchronization status
Call this read-only action to verify the connection and synchronization status of a user's google calendar integration with cal.
File Updated
Triggers when a file's metadata or content changes in Google Drive.
Check ics feed calendar endpoint
Checks an ics feed url (expected as a query parameter) to verify its validity, accessibility, and icalendar data integrity.
Google Drive Changes
Triggers when changes are detected in a Google Drive.
Check Stripe status
Verifies if stripe is correctly connected to the cal scheduling system and functional for processing payments, reporting only on the integration's status.
Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Google Drive and Cal, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
When this happens · Trigger
Do this · Action
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