Surface urgent Drive files on your calendar instantly
Slack just flagged a Drive file as urgent. Notis adds it to your calendar immediately—so it's top-of-mind.
Trigger
Webhook received
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Action
Create Event
Creates an event on a google calendar, needing rfc3339 utc start/end times (end after start) and write access to the calendar. by default, adds the organizer as an attendee unless exclude organizer is set to true.
Why this helps
Colleagues flag urgent Drive files in Slack or email, but without calendar visibility, you miss the urgency and respond too late.
- Urgent files surface on your calendar immediately
- Multimodal alerts (Slack + calendar)
- Reduced response time to critical requests
- Better visibility of external priorities
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Google Drive and Google Calendar to Notis.
- 2In your Notis automation settings, create a webhook endpoint.
- 3Configure Slack (via Notis's Slack app or a webhook) to send urgent file notifications to Notis.
- 4Create an automation: ask Notis 'When an external tool sends an urgent file notification, add it to my calendar immediately.'
- 5Test by manually triggering a webhook event (Notis can show you how) or asking a colleague to flag a file in Slack.
- 6Verify the file appears on your calendar within seconds.
Questions about this workflow
Do I need to set up Slack integration separately, or does Notis handle it?
Notis can hook into Slack directly or receive webhooks from custom tools. Notis guides you through either setup.
Can I set different calendar actions based on urgency level (e.g., 'critical' vs. 'important')?
Yes, configure multiple automations: one for 'critical' files that creates a 1-hour urgent block, another for 'important' files with a standard 30-minute block.
Will this spam my calendar if Slack is very active?
You can throttle it (e.g., 'only add once per file') or narrow the trigger (e.g., 'only for files from specific channels or people').
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Google Drive to Google Calendar. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Google Drive triggers
Google Calendar actions
Comment Added (Docs/Sheets/Slides)
Triggers when a new comment is added to Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides.
Insert Calendar into List
Inserts an existing calendar into the user's calendar list.
File Created
Triggers when a new file is created in Google Drive.
Update Calendar List Entry
Updates an existing entry on the user\'s calendar list.
File Deleted or Trashed
Triggers when a file is moved to trash or permanently deleted in Drive.
Delete Calendar
Deletes a secondary calendar. use calendars.clear for clearing all events on primary calendars.
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.
Update Calendar
Updates metadata for a calendar.
File Updated
Triggers when a file's metadata or content changes in Google Drive.
Clear Calendar
Clears a primary calendar. this operation deletes all events associated with the primary calendar of an account.
Google Drive Changes
Triggers when changes are detected in a Google Drive.
Create Event
Creates an event on a google calendar, needing rfc3339 utc start/end times (end after start) and write access to the calendar. by default, adds the organizer as an attendee unless exclude organizer is set to true.
New File Matching Query
Triggers when a new Google Drive file matches a provided query. This is the legacy query-centric trigger: it preserves Drive API query config such as ``corpora`` / ``driveId`` aliases and emits the historical ``file_matching_query`` event type. ``FileCreatedTrigger`` covers the broader "new file" case and emits ``file_created``.
Delete event
Deletes a specified event by `event id` from a google calendar (`calendar id`); this action is idempotent and raises a 404 error if the event is not found.
Create a calendar
Creates a new, empty google calendar with the specified title (summary).
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