Run a monthly Dovetail research search
Keep strategic questions connected to the newest customer evidence.
Trigger
Recurring schedule
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
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
Strategic decisions rely on old summaries because fresh evidence is hard to assemble.
- Refreshes strategic evidence
- Shows changes over time
- Creates a repeatable decision input
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Dovetail in Notis once.
- 2Create an automation named Monthly strategic research search.
- 3Tell Notis to run a Dovetail magic search for a named strategic question and summarize new or changed evidence from WhatsApp conversations.
- 4Pick a recurring Notis schedule trigger.
- 5Choose a report channel and test with one scheduled run.
Questions about this workflow
Can I use several strategic questions?
Create separate automations so each search has a clear purpose and report.
Does it compare with last month?
Only if you provide prior results or a stored baseline for comparison.
When this happens · Trigger
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Timelinesai to Dovetail. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Timelinesai 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 WhatsApp Message Received
Polling trigger that monitors for new messages received in TimelinesAI WhatsApp chats.
Create Data Point
Tool to create a data point within a channel. use after capturing new content to record and classify it in dovetail.
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'."
Create Topic
Tool to create a new topic in a channel. use after confirming channel id, title, and optional description.
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.
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.
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