Keep research briefs in sync with their source newsroom
A brief is a snapshot the moment you finish it, and the source it cites keeps publishing. When you update the body of a research brief in Notion, Notis re-scans the source page for new article links so the brief stays current without a manual re-check.
Trigger
Page Content Updated
Fires when the body content of an accessible page is updated.
Action
Extract News Links
Extract article links from a news homepage or section; an empty result is successful.
Why this helps
Research briefs quietly go stale because the sources they cite keep publishing while nobody re-checks them.
- Keeps a brief in step with its source newsroom.
- Re-scans for new links only when you touch the brief.
- Removes the manual re-check that never happens on time.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Notion and World News API to Notis once from the portal.
- 2In Automations, click New Automation and name it 'Brief link refresh'.
- 3Write the plain-language prompt, for example: 'When I update this brief, extract the latest article links from its source page and list any new ones.'
- 4Choose the Page Content Updated trigger and scope it to the brief.
- 5Set the reporting channel, then edit the brief once to test the refresh.
Questions about this workflow
What scopes the trigger?
Page Content Updated can be scoped to a specific page, so only edits to that brief run the automation.
How does it know which links are new?
Ask it to compare against the last scan and it will surface only the fresh links.
Does frequent editing cause repeated runs?
Notion aggregates content edits within a short window, so rapid edits usually collapse into one run.
When this happens · Trigger
Fires when the body content of an accessible page is updated.
Do this · Action
Extract article links from a news homepage or section; an empty result is successful.
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.
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