Search Dovetail for context behind new slides
Connect a new slide to the evidence your team already has.
Trigger
New Slide Added
Fires when a new slide is added to a Google Slides presentation.
Action
Magic Search
Tool to perform a magic search across workspace data. use when you need to retrieve relevant highlights, notes, insights, channels, themes, or tags by query.
Why this helps
Teams make decisions from a slide without checking whether earlier research supports or challenges it.
- Surfaces related notes and highlights quickly
- Adds historical context to new claims
- Helps identify supporting and conflicting evidence
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Google Slides and Dovetail in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation and describe the question it should answer from each new slide.
- 3Tell Notis to run a Dovetail Magic Search and summarize relevant results with source references.
- 4Choose New Slide Added as the trigger and pick a report channel.
- 5Test on one slide with a specific research claim.
Questions about this workflow
Does this change Dovetail data?
No. Magic Search retrieves workspace material and returns findings in the automation report.
What if the search finds nothing?
The report can state that no relevant evidence was found and list the terms used.
When this happens · Trigger
Do this · Action
Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Google Slides to Dovetail. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Google Slides triggers
Dovetail actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Create Channel
Tool to create a new channel in dovetail. use after confirming channel details.
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Create Contact
Tool to create a new contact in dovetail. use when you need to register a contact before logging interactions.
New Slide Added
Fires when a new slide is added to a Google Slides presentation.
Create Data Point
Tool to create a data point within a channel. use after capturing new content to record and classify it in dovetail.
Create Insight
Tool to create a new insight in dovetail. use after synthesizing findings when ready to store them. example: "create insight 'q1 user trends' with body '...' for project 'proj 123'."
Create Topic
Tool to create a new topic in a channel. use after confirming channel id, title, and optional description.
Delete Channel
Tool to delete an existing channel. use when you need to remove a channel and move it to the project's trash (restorable for 30 days). confirm the channel id before calling.
Delete Topic
Tool to delete an existing topic. use when you have confirmed the topic id and want to move it to trash (restorable for 30 days). example: "delete topic with id 123e4567-e89b-12d3-a456-426614174000."
Get Note
Tool to retrieve details of a specific note. use when you have confirmed the note id and need full note metadata from dovetail.
Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Google Slides and Dovetail, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
When this happens · Trigger
Do this · Action
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