Turn ready backlog items into team work
A weekly pass can help separate ideas that are ready from tasks that can wait. Notis can give ready team work a Linear issue.
Trigger
Recurring schedule
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Action
Create linear issue
Creates a new issue in a specified linear project and team, requiring a title and description, and allowing for optional properties like assignee, state, priority, cycle, and due date.
Why this helps
A growing personal backlog makes it hard to spot which item is ready for a concrete team next step.
- Create a predictable review point for accumulated tasks.
- Move ready work into the team's tracker without retyping it.
- Make the next step clearer for tasks that are no longer just ideas.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Google Tasks and Linear to Notis once through the portal.
- 2Create an automation in the portal or ask Notis conversationally.
- 3In one instruction, define which backlog tasks are actionable team work and should become Linear issues.
- 4Select a weekly schedule and choose a channel for run reports.
- 5Test with one real backlog item that is ready to move forward.
Questions about this workflow
Can the review leave ideas in Google Tasks?
Yes. Tell Notis to create issues only for items that meet your readiness criteria.
Does a scheduled workflow need an integration event?
No. Choose a recurring schedule as the trigger when setting up this automation.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Google Tasks to Linear. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Google Tasks triggers
Linear actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Create linear attachment
Creates a new attachment and associates it with a specific, existing linear issue.
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Create a comment
Creates a new comment on a specified linear issue.
New Task Created
Triggers when a new task is created in a Google Tasks list. Uses timestamp filtering (updatedMin) to efficiently detect new tasks.
Create linear issue
Creates a new issue in a specified linear project and team, requiring a title and description, and allowing for optional properties like assignee, state, priority, cycle, and due date.
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 create issue default params
Fetches a linear team's default issue estimate and state, useful for pre-filling new issue forms.
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.
Create a label
Creates a new label in linear for a specified team, used to categorize and organize issues.
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.
Delete issue
Archives an existing linear issue by its id, which is linear's standard way of deleting issues; the operation is idempotent.
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.
Get all teams
Retrieves all teams from the linear workspace without requiring any parameters.
Download issue attachments
Downloads a specific attachment from a linear issue; the `file name` must include the correct file extension.
Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Google Tasks and Linear, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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