Give your Slack DM ideas a place to land
Have Notis capture ideas from direct messages in an Excel inventory, so you can return to them when you have focus to plan.
Trigger
Direct Message Received
Triggered when a new direct message (DM) is sent to a user in Slack. Catches all DMs across all DM channels.
Action
Add Table Row
Add a row to a table using microsoft graph api.
Why this helps
Ideas arrive between other tasks and can be hard to recover from a crowded DM history.
- Keep incoming ideas together for a calmer review.
- Spend less time searching old direct messages.
- Separate capturing an idea from deciding what to do with it.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Slack and Excel to Notis once in the portal.
- 2Create an automation through the portal or by asking Notis, with one prompt to add idea-bearing DMs as concise rows in your Excel idea inventory.
- 3Choose Direct Message Received as the trigger and select a channel for run reports.
- 4Test with one real DM that contains an idea you want to keep.
Questions about this workflow
Can the prompt limit what gets saved?
Yes. Describe the kinds of ideas worth capturing and ask Notis to skip ordinary conversation.
Does this include channel posts?
This workflow uses the Slack direct message trigger; channel posts use a separate trigger.
When this happens · Trigger
Do this · Action
Supported Triggers and Actions
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Slack triggers
Excel actions
Recurring trigger
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Channel Message Received
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Direct Message Received
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Message Reaction Removed
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Reaction Added Trigger
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Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Slack and Excel, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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