Turn emailed articles into quick briefs
Get the useful article context without a long reading detour.
Trigger
New Outlook Message
Triggered when a new message is received in the Outlook mailbox.
Action
Get Article Data
Tool to extract information from articles, including authors, publication dates, and images. use when you need structured metadata from a web article url.
Why this helps
Important articles arrive in email but disappear into an unread reading queue.
- Capture article metadata
- Decide what deserves reading
- Keep research moving
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Outlook and Diffbot in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation named Incoming email article brief.
- 3Tell Notis to extract article metadata from URLs in the new message and provide a short relevance brief.
- 4Pick New Outlook Message as the trigger and choose where run reports should go.
- 5Test with one real message.
Questions about this workflow
Does this summarize the entire article?
It extracts structured article data and can provide a concise brief from the returned content.
What if the link is not an article?
Use the Analyze action workflow for mixed link types.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Outlook to Diffbot. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Outlook triggers
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Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Outlook and Diffbot, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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