Never miss pull request review time again
When someone opens a pull request, Notis adds it to your calendar so you stay on top of reviews without losing focus to notifications.
Trigger
New Pull Request Created
Triggers when a new pull request is created in GitHub, matching the optional configured filters. Emits an event for each newly created pull request. Supports filtering by repository, owner/organisation, author, assignee, label, state, base branch, head branch, and draft status.
Action
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.
Why this helps
Pull requests arrive unpredictably and interrupt your work. You context-switch to check them, then forget to actually review later because the notification disappeared. Reviewers ping you again. Time gets lost in Slack ping-pong instead of actual code review.
- Review PRs during dedicated time blocks instead of random interruptions
- Reduce back-and-forth reviewer pings by staying predictably available
- Keep coding momentum by batching reviews into calendar slots
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect your GitHub and Google Calendar accounts to Notis (one-time setup)
- 2Ask Notis: 'When a new pull request is opened, create a 30-minute calendar event for review' or use the portal to create this automation
- 3Select GitHub as the trigger and name your automation something like 'PR Review Blocks'
- 4Choose which Slack channel receives run summaries (or email)
- 5Test: open a draft PR in any monitored repo and confirm the calendar event appears
Questions about this workflow
Will this create an event for every PR, even drafts?
You can configure it to skip drafts. Just tell Notis 'exclude draft pull requests' in your automation.
Can I customize the event duration?
Yes. Tell Notis how long you need: 'Make it a 1-hour event' or '30 minutes'. It auto-fills your calendar with the duration you specify.
What if I don't want events for all repositories?
You can restrict it to specific repos or teams. Notis will only create events for the repos you mention.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link GitHub to Google Calendar. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
GitHub triggers
Google Calendar actions
New Workflow Artifact Created
Triggers when a new workflow artifact is created in a GitHub repository. Monitors for newly created GitHub Actions workflow artifacts. Optionally filters by artifact name to restrict monitoring to specific artifacts.
Insert Calendar into List
Inserts an existing calendar into the user's calendar list.
Branch Changed
Triggers when a GitHub branch changes. Monitors a specific branch for: - New commits pushed (head commit SHA changes) - Protection status toggled (branch becomes protected or unprotected) - Protection settings changed, including: required status checks and their enforcement level, admin enforcement, required pull request reviews (dismiss stale reviews, code owner reviews, approving review count, last push approval), required linear history, force push allowance, deletion allowance, conversation resolution, branch locking, and fork syncing.
Update Calendar List Entry
Updates an existing entry on the user\'s calendar list.
New Branch Created
Triggers when a new branch is created in a GitHub repository. Detects newly created branches. Deleted branches do not fire events.
Delete Calendar
Deletes a secondary calendar. use calendars.clear for clearing all events on primary calendars.
Check Run Status / Conclusion Changed
Triggers when a specific GitHub check run changes its status or conclusion. Monitors a single check run for changes to: status (queued, in_progress, completed, etc.), conclusion (success, failure, neutral, cancelled, skipped, timed_out, action_required), started_at, and completed_at.
Update Calendar
Updates metadata for a calendar.
Check Suite Status / Conclusion Changed
Triggers when a GitHub check suite changes its status or conclusion for a given ref. Monitors all check suites associated with a git reference (branch, tag, or commit SHA) for changes to status (queued, in_progress, completed, etc.) and conclusion (success, failure, neutral, cancelled, skipped, timed_out, action_required, startup_failure, stale). Optionally filters by GitHub App ID.
Clear Calendar
Clears a primary calendar. this operation deletes all events associated with the primary calendar of an account.
New Code Scanning Alert Created
Triggers when a new code scanning alert is created in a repository. Fires an event for each newly created code scanning alert detected in the configured repository. Alerts can be filtered by Git reference, scanning tool, state, and severity. The payload includes the alert number, rule details, tool information, state, severity, and the location of the most recent instance.
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 Repository Collaborator Added
Triggers when a new collaborator is added to a GitHub repository. Monitors the full list of collaborators on a repository and fires an event for each newly added collaborator. The payload includes the collaborator's GitHub username, account ID, profile URL, avatar URL, permission flags (pull, triage, push, maintain, admin), and assigned role name.
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.
Commit Event
Triggered when a new commit is pushed to a repository.
Create a calendar
Creates a new, empty google calendar with the specified title (summary).
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