Blocking costs become visible
Issue blocked? It charges your blocking-cost goal, making the interrupt and escalation need obvious.
Trigger
Public Team Issue Properties Updated
Fires when properties on a *public-team* Linear issue change (status, assignee, priority, labels, etc.). For private teams (lock icon in Linear's sidebar) use `LINEAR_PRIVATE_TEAM_ISSUE_PROPERTIES_UPDATED`.
Action
Create Charge
Tool to create a new charge for a user. use when billing a user outside of goal pledges; supports dryrun mode.
Why this helps
Blocked work drains capacity invisibly; no one sees compounding cost until crisis forces escalation.
- Make blocking cost visible to stakeholders
- Build data for process improvement
- Escalate objectively with metrics
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Linear and Beeminder to Notis
- 2Create an automation with 'Public Team Issue Properties Updated' as the trigger
- 3Filter to issues with status 'Blocked' or label 'blocked'
- 4Set the action to 'create a charge' and write: Charge my blocking-cost goal each day an issue remains blocked
- 5Configure Beeminder to receive daily charges and test with one blocked issue
Questions about this workflow
How often should blocked issues charge?
Daily is typical. This makes blocking cost accumulate visibly. Adjust based on your workflow.
Does this count the same for all blocked issues?
By default, yes. You can refine to weight critical blocked issues higher based on priority or team.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Linear to Beeminder. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Linear 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.
Comment Received Trigger
Triggered when a comment is received.
Get all goals
Tool to retrieve all goals for a specified user. use when listing a user's active goals.
Issue Created Trigger
Triggered when a new issue is created.
Get Archived Goals
Tool to retrieve archived goals for a specified user. use when you need to inspect a user's past archived goals.
Issue Updated Trigger
Triggered when an issue is updated. For example labels are changed, issue status is changed, etc.
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.
Private Team Comment Created
Fires when a new comment is posted on an issue in a private Linear team (polled with the connected user's token).
Private Team Issue Created
Fires when a new issue appears in a private Linear team (polled with the connected user's token).
Private Team Issue Properties Updated
Fires when properties on an issue change in a private Linear team (polled with the connected user's token).
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Linear and Beeminder, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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