Auto-Document Every Release in Google Drive
Notis creates a release notes document in Google Drive the moment you publish a GitHub release. Your version history and shipped features stay organized and searchable.
Trigger
GitHub Release State Changed
Triggers when a specific GitHub release (identified by tag name) changes. Monitors the release title, body/notes, draft flag, prerelease flag, published timestamp, target branch/commit, and the set of attached assets. The payload includes the full current release details, a list of which fields changed, and the previous values for comparison.
Action
Create a File from Text
Creates a new file in google drive from provided text content (up to 10mb), supporting various formats including automatic conversion to google workspace types.
Why this helps
Release notes live in GitHub releases, buried in tags, or forgotten in scattered docs. Historical context about what shipped when gets lost as the project scales.
- Release history builds automatically—no manual documentation
- Version timeline stays searchable in Drive for product decisions
- New team members understand feature evolution without digging through GitHub
- Release cadence becomes visible for planning and momentum tracking
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect GitHub and Google Drive to Notis.
- 2Tell Notis: 'When a release is published, create a document in Google Drive with the version number, release title, notes, assets, and timestamp.'
- 3In the portal, select 'GitHub Release State Changed' as your trigger (listening for new releases).
- 4Choose a Notis reporting channel.
- 5Test by creating a release in your GitHub repository.
Questions about this workflow
Does this capture pre-releases and full releases?
Yes. Notis logs both pre-releases and stable releases. You can tell Notis to create separate folders or logs if you want to distinguish them.
Can I include linked issues or PRs in the release doc?
Absolutely. Ask Notis to include 'all PRs merged in this release' or 'all closed issues in this version,' and Notis will populate those details.
What if I edit a release after publishing?
Edits to release notes trigger a new doc or an update to the existing one. You can configure how Notis handles revisions.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link GitHub to Google Drive. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
GitHub triggers
Google Drive 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.
Add file sharing preference
Modifies sharing permissions for an existing google drive file, granting a specified role to a user, group, domain, or 'anyone'.
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.
Copy file
Duplicates an existing file in google drive, identified by its `file id`.
New Branch Created
Triggers when a new branch is created in a GitHub repository. Detects newly created branches. Deleted branches do not fire events.
Create Comment
Tool to create a comment on a file. use when you need to add a new comment to a specific file in google drive.
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.
Create Shared Drive
Tool to create a new shared drive. use when you need to programmatically create a new shared drive for collaboration or storage.
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.
Create File or Folder
Creates a new file or folder with metadata. use to create empty files or folders, or files with content by providing it in the request body (though this action primarily focuses on metadata creation).
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 a File from Text
Creates a new file in google drive from provided text content (up to 10mb), supporting various formats including automatic conversion to google workspace types.
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.
Create a folder
Creates a new folder in google drive, optionally within a parent folder specified by its id or name; if a parent name is provided but not found, the action will fail.
Commit Event
Triggered when a new commit is pushed to a repository.
Create Reply
Tool to create a reply to a comment in google drive. use when you need to respond to an existing comment on a file.
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