Keep email decisions with the work they guide
Put the decision where the next person will look for the task's history.
Trigger
New Outlook Message
Triggered when a new message is received in the Outlook mailbox.
Action
Create a comment
Creates a new comment on a specified linear issue.
Why this helps
Agreed decisions can vanish into long email threads and force people to reopen settled questions.
- Make decisions visible beside the affected work.
- Reduce repeated clarification conversations.
- Preserve a concise project history.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Outlook and Linear to Notis once in the portal.
- 2Create an automation in the portal or tell Notis what to do in one conversational instruction.
- 3Ask Notis to find the related issue and comment when a new email contains a clear project decision or approval.
- 4Choose the New Outlook Message trigger and select a run-report channel.
- 5Test with one decision email tied to an existing issue.
Questions about this workflow
Can it ignore tentative discussion?
Tell Notis to comment only on clear decisions, approvals, or agreed changes.
What if no matching issue is found?
Instruct Notis to skip commenting when it cannot confidently identify the relevant issue.
When this happens · Trigger
Do this · Action
Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Outlook to Linear. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Outlook triggers
Linear actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Create linear attachment
Creates a new attachment and associates it with a specific, existing linear issue.
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Create a comment
Creates a new comment on a specified linear issue.
New Contact Added
Triggered when a new contact is added in the Outlook contacts.
Create linear issue
Creates a new issue in a specified linear project and team, requiring a title and description, and allowing for optional properties like assignee, state, priority, cycle, and due date.
Calendar Event Changes
Triggered when a new calendar event occurs (created, updated, or deleted) in the Outlook calendar.
Get create issue default params
Fetches a linear team's default issue estimate and state, useful for pre-filling new issue forms.
New Calendar Event
Triggered when a new calendar event is created in the Outlook calendar.
Create a label
Creates a new label in linear for a specified team, used to categorize and organize issues.
New Outlook Message
Triggered when a new message is received in the Outlook mailbox.
Delete issue
Archives an existing linear issue by its id, which is linear's standard way of deleting issues; the operation is idempotent.
New Sent Message
Triggered when a new message is sent from the Outlook mailbox.
Get all teams
Retrieves all teams from the linear workspace without requiring any parameters.
Download issue attachments
Downloads a specific attachment from a linear issue; the `file name` must include the correct file extension.
Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Outlook and Linear, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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