Capture new tasks with Beeminder urgency context
Make new task triage reflect the urgency signals already present in your Beeminder account.
Trigger
New Task Created
Triggers when a new task is created in a Google Tasks list. Uses timestamp filtering (updatedMin) to efficiently detect new tasks.
Action
Get Beeminder User Information
Tool to retrieve information about a specified beeminder user. use when you need to fetch details like timezone, goals, urgency, or deleted goals after authenticating successfully.
Why this helps
A task can look equally urgent in isolation even when your goal commitments say otherwise.
- Add urgency context to capture
- Reduce ambiguous prioritization
- Keep triage connected to goals
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Google Tasks and Beeminder once in Notis.
- 2Create an automation that retrieves Beeminder user information for each new task and explains relevant urgency context.
- 3Pick New Task Created as the trigger.
- 4Choose a report channel.
- 5Test with one newly created task.
Questions about this workflow
Does Beeminder provide a universal urgency score?
Notis can only use the fields returned by the user information action and your instructions.
Can this replace my task manager?
No. It adds context to the task event and reports the result.
When this happens · Trigger
Do this · Action
Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Google Tasks to Beeminder. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Google Tasks triggers
Beeminder actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Authenticate and Redirect User
Tool to authenticate a user and redirect them to a given url. use when sending a user into the beeminder web ui directly after oauth or token validation.
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Create Charge
Tool to create a new charge for a user. use when billing a user outside of goal pledges; supports dryrun mode.
New Task Created
Triggers when a new task is created in a Google Tasks list. Uses timestamp filtering (updatedMin) to efficiently detect new tasks.
Get all goals
Tool to retrieve all goals for a specified user. use when listing a user's active goals.
New Task List Created
Triggers when a new Google Tasks task list is created. This trigger monitors Google Tasks and fires when new task lists are detected.
Get Archived Goals
Tool to retrieve archived goals for a specified user. use when you need to inspect a user's past archived goals.
Task Details Changed
Triggers when a specific task's details change. This trigger monitors a single Google Task and fires when any of its details (title, notes, status, due date, completion, position) are modified.
Get Beeminder User Information
Tool to retrieve information about a specified beeminder user. use when you need to fetch details like timezone, goals, urgency, or deleted goals after authenticating successfully.
Task List Changed
Triggers when a task list changes (title or content updates). This trigger monitors a specific Google Tasks list and fires when changes are detected.
Task Updated
Triggers when an existing task is updated in a Google Tasks list. This trigger monitors a specific task list and fires when tasks are modified.
Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Google Tasks and Beeminder, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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