Monitor research Docs for new article links
Keep collaborative research moving while new sources are added to shared Docs.
Trigger
Document Search Update
Triggers when a Google Doc matching a user-defined search query is newly created or updated since the last poll. This trigger uses timestamp filtering to efficiently monitor documents.
Action
Get Article Data
Tool to extract information from articles, including authors, publication dates, and images. use when you need structured metadata from a web article url.
Why this helps
Useful links get added to team documents without anyone turning them into actionable summaries.
- Catch new sources in shared documents
- Create summaries without manual review
- Keep research collaborators aligned
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Google Super and Diffbot in Notis.
- 2Create an automation for matching document updates.
- 3Tell Notis to identify article URLs newly present in the updated document and extract structured metadata plus a concise summary.
- 4Pick Document Search Update as the trigger and select a report channel.
- 5Test by adding one public article URL to a matching Doc.
Questions about this workflow
How does Notis know a link is new?
Provide the searched document and let Notis compare the updated content with the prior report context.
Can it summarize non article pages?
Use Diffbot Analyze for mixed page types instead of the Article Data action.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
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Google Super triggers
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Recurring trigger
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