Search Dovetail when research questions arrive
Answer incoming questions with the evidence your team already has.
Trigger
New Outlook Message
Triggered when a new message is received in the Outlook mailbox.
Action
Magic Search
Tool to perform a magic search across workspace data. use when you need to retrieve relevant highlights, notes, insights, channels, themes, or tags by query.
Why this helps
Founders lose time searching research tools manually for answers already documented.
- Shorten evidence lookup time
- Reuse existing research
- Reduce context switching
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Outlook and Dovetail once.
- 2Create an automation instructing Notis to extract the core research question from each relevant new message and run a Dovetail Magic Search for supporting evidence.
- 3Choose New Outlook Message as the trigger.
- 4Select a report channel and test with one real question.
Questions about this workflow
Does it send an answer back by email?
This workflow runs the search and reports results through your chosen Notis report channel.
What if no evidence matches?
Notis can report that no supporting result was found.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Outlook to Dovetail. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Outlook triggers
Dovetail actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Create Channel
Tool to create a new channel in dovetail. use after confirming channel details.
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Create Contact
Tool to create a new contact in dovetail. use when you need to register a contact before logging interactions.
New Contact Added
Triggered when a new contact is added in the Outlook contacts.
Create Data Point
Tool to create a data point within a channel. use after capturing new content to record and classify it in dovetail.
Calendar Event Changes
Triggered when a new calendar event occurs (created, updated, or deleted) in the Outlook calendar.
Create Insight
Tool to create a new insight in dovetail. use after synthesizing findings when ready to store them. example: "create insight 'q1 user trends' with body '...' for project 'proj 123'."
New Calendar Event
Triggered when a new calendar event is created in the Outlook calendar.
Create Topic
Tool to create a new topic in a channel. use after confirming channel id, title, and optional description.
New Outlook Message
Triggered when a new message is received in the Outlook mailbox.
Delete Channel
Tool to delete an existing channel. use when you need to remove a channel and move it to the project's trash (restorable for 30 days). confirm the channel id before calling.
New Sent Message
Triggered when a new message is sent from the Outlook mailbox.
Delete Topic
Tool to delete an existing topic. use when you have confirmed the topic id and want to move it to trash (restorable for 30 days). example: "delete topic with id 123e4567-e89b-12d3-a456-426614174000."
Get Note
Tool to retrieve details of a specific note. use when you have confirmed the note id and need full note metadata from dovetail.
Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Outlook and Dovetail, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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