Stay ahead of breaking news without watching a feed
A news tab open all day is a focus leak. Instead, Notis checks the top clustered news for your country at the interval you choose during work hours, so a breaking story reaches you without you monitoring anything.
Trigger
Recurring schedule
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Action
Get Top News
View relevance-ranked top news clusters for a country and language.
Why this helps
Keeping a live news feed open to catch breaking stories destroys deep work, but checking manually means you find out late.
- Surfaces breaking stories without an always-open feed.
- Runs only during the hours you actually work.
- Protects focus while keeping you current.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Notion and World News API to Notis once from the portal.
- 2Open Automations, click New Automation, and name it 'Work-hours news check'.
- 3Describe the outcome, for example: 'Every two hours between 9am and 6pm on weekdays, fetch the top news for my country and flag anything major.'
- 4Choose a recurring schedule and set the interval and hours.
- 5Pick the reporting channel, then run it once to confirm the update.
Questions about this workflow
How often can it run?
As often as you like. Set the interval in your instruction, for example hourly or every couple of hours.
Will it repeat the same story every run?
Ask Notis to only flag stories that are new since the last run and it will skip repeats.
Can I limit it to weekdays?
Yes. Describe the days and hours in your instruction and the schedule respects them.
When this happens · Trigger
Fires when a new comment is created in the accessible workspace.
Do this · Action
View relevance-ranked top news clusters for a country and language.
Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Notion to World News API. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Notion triggers
World News API actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Extract News Article
Extracts a public article for 2 points, plus 2 with analysis; paywalled or login-protected pages may be incomplete.
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Extract News Links
Extract article links from a news homepage or section; an empty result is successful.
Comment Created
Fires when a new comment is created in the accessible workspace.
Get Geo Coordinates
Find a place’s latitude and longitude from its name or address.
Database Created
Fires when a new database container is created.
Generate RSS Feed
Generates an RSS 2.0 feed from a public news page; costs 1 point, plus 0.5 per item if extraction is enabled.
Data Source Created
Fires when a new data source is created in the workspace.
Search News Sources
Find monitored news sources by partial name and view their URLs and languages.
Data Source Schema Updated
Fires when a data source’s columns are added, removed, or renamed.
Get News by IDs
Retrieves full article records by their IDs; costs 0.1 quota points per returned article.
Page Content Updated
Fires when the body content of an accessible page is updated.
Get Top News
View relevance-ranked top news clusters for a country and language.
Page Created
Fires when a new page is created in the accessible workspace.
Search News
Searches indexed news, returning one page for 1 point plus 0.01 per article; free history is about a month.
Conditions and details
Requires at least one anchor filter to search; date, sentiment and text-match criteria can only refine an anchored search. Returns one offset page of indexed news articles. The cost is 1 point plus 0.01 points per returned article. Free accounts can search about one month of history.
Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Notion and World News API, or any other combination from 1,500+ integrations.
When this happens · Trigger
Do this · Action
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