Find open time for focused work
Let Notis scan a defined part of your calendar and surface open slots you can consider using for focused work.
Trigger
Recurring schedule
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Action
Find free slots
Finds free/busy time slots in google calendars for specified calendars within a defined time range (defaults to the current day utc if `time min`/`time max` are omitted), enhancing busy intervals with event details; `time min` must precede `time max` if both are provided.
Why this helps
Open time is hard to spot among meetings, and available blocks can disappear before you plan around them.
- Surface available blocks in a defined time range.
- Reduce the effort of scanning a busy calendar manually.
- Keep final scheduling decisions in your hands.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Google Calendar once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation in Automations, New Automation, and give it a name and prompt.
- 3Tell Notis which calendar, planning window, minimum slot length, and timezone to use, and ask it to report candidate slots without creating events.
- 4Pick a recurring schedule trigger and choose where run reports should go.
- 5Test one run and confirm the reported free slots against your calendar.
Questions about this workflow
Will this block focus time automatically?
No. It finds and reports free slots. You decide whether to schedule an event.
Can it respect a minimum block length?
Include your preferred minimum duration in the instruction so Notis can report only suitable candidate slots.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Outlook to Google Calendar. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Outlook triggers
Google Calendar actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Insert Calendar into List
Inserts an existing calendar into the user's calendar list.
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Update Calendar List Entry
Updates an existing entry on the user\'s calendar list.
New Contact Added
Triggered when a new contact is added in the Outlook contacts.
Delete Calendar
Deletes a secondary calendar. use calendars.clear for clearing all events on primary calendars.
Calendar Event Changes
Triggered when a new calendar event occurs (created, updated, or deleted) in the Outlook calendar.
Update Calendar
Updates metadata for a calendar.
New Calendar Event
Triggered when a new calendar event is created in the Outlook calendar.
Clear Calendar
Clears a primary calendar. this operation deletes all events associated with the primary calendar of an account.
New Outlook Message
Triggered when a new message is received in the Outlook mailbox.
Create Event
Creates an event on a google calendar, needing rfc3339 utc start/end times (end after start) and write access to the calendar. by default, adds the organizer as an attendee unless exclude organizer is set to true.
New Sent Message
Triggered when a new message is sent from the Outlook mailbox.
Delete event
Deletes a specified event by `event id` from a google calendar (`calendar id`); this action is idempotent and raises a 404 error if the event is not found.
Create a calendar
Creates a new, empty google calendar with the specified title (summary).
Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Outlook and Google Calendar, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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