Give every new brief a timely news scan
Create a document and get a concise scan of current headlines related to its subject.
Trigger
File Created
Triggers when a new file is created in Google Drive.
Action
List Latest News
Tool to retrieve the latest news articles from Currents News API. Use when you need a real-time feed of recent articles.
Why this helps
A new planning document can be missing timely outside context, and remembering to research it later is easy to lose track of.
- Add current external context to new briefs.
- Use the file's available details to guide the search.
- Receive a short report without opening another research workflow.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Google Drive and Currents api once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation in Automations, New Automation, and give it a name.
- 3Tell Notis: When a new file is created, use its available title and content to find relevant recent headlines and summarize them.
- 4Pick the Google Drive File Created trigger and choose where run reports go.
- 5Test with one real new file.
Questions about this workflow
Which files can start the automation?
A newly created file in Google Drive. The event details determine what information is available for the news search.
Can it infer the document topic?
Notis can use available title or content. If the event does not include enough context, state the topic in your instruction.
Which Currents action runs?
List Latest News retrieves recent articles for the follow-up summary.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Google Drive to Currents api. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Google Drive triggers
Currents api actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
List Latest News
Tool to retrieve the latest news articles from Currents News API. Use when you need a real-time feed of recent articles.
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Activities Watch
Tool to start a notification channel to watch activities for a specified user and application. Use when needing to receive push notifications for user activity; call after OAuth credentials and webhook endpoint are set up.
Comment Added (Docs/Sheets/Slides)
Triggers when a new comment is added to Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides.
Get Entity Usage Reports
Tool to retrieve usage statistics for a specific Google Workspace entity. Use when you need to analyze entity usage on a particular date.
File Created
Triggers when a new file is created in Google Drive.
List Users
Tool to list users in a Google Workspace domain. Note: - When the provided base_url points to Currents News API (api.currentsapi.services), this action will gracefully fall back to listing latest news articles to ensure a valid response, since the Currents News API does not expose a users endpoint. - When the base_url points to Google Admin Directory API, it will list users from the domain/customer specified.
File Deleted or Trashed
Triggers when a file is moved to trash or permanently deleted in Drive.
Get User Usage Report
Tool to retrieve the usage report for a specified user on a given date. Use after confirming the userKey and date. Use when detailed usage metrics are needed for auditing or monitoring.
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 Currents api, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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