Analyze Email Data with Simple SQL Queries
Emails arrive, get logged to Sheets, and you query them with SQL—find patterns in customer questions, common pain points, or sales cycle trends without building a database.
Trigger
New Gmail Message Received Trigger
Triggers when a new message is received in Gmail.
Action
Execute SQL on Spreadsheet
Execute sql queries against google sheets tables. supports select, insert, update, and delete operations with familiar sql syntax. tables are automatically detected and mapped from the spreadsheet structure.
Why this helps
Customer emails contain gold data—common questions, pain points, feature requests—but it's buried in an inbox. Accessing that insight requires manual reading or hiring an analyst. Founders miss market signals hidden in plain sight.
- Spot customer pain points and feature requests in bulk
- Identify your most common customer questions
- See which prospects are most engaged
- Build product roadmap based on real customer data
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Gmail and Google Sheets.
- 2Set up a sheet where incoming emails get logged with sender, subject, and body text.
- 3Tell Notis: 'Extract key email details and append them to my analysis sheet. I'll query for patterns.'
- 4Set the trigger: new customer emails or emails from specific domains.
- 5Test by running a simple SQL query like SELECT subject, COUNT(*) FROM emails GROUP BY subject to find the most common customer questions.
Questions about this workflow
What email data can be extracted?
Sender name and address, subject line, received date, message body (text), and custom fields you define like product mentioned or sentiment.
Is my customer data secure in a Google Sheet?
Google Sheets have encryption at rest and in transit. For highly sensitive data, consult your privacy policy and consider a dedicated database.
Can I set this to exclude certain keywords or emails?
Yes. Tell Notis to skip emails from your team, auto-responses, or specific keywords like 'unsubscribe.'
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Gmail to Google Sheets. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Gmail triggers
Google Sheets actions
Email Sent
Triggers when a Gmail message is sent by the authenticated user. It polls the 'SENT' label and emits metadata including sender, recipients, subject, timestamp, and thread ID.
Add Sheet to Spreadsheet
Adds a new sheet (worksheet) to a spreadsheet. use this tool to create a new tab within an existing google sheet, optionally specifying its title, index, size, and other properties.
New Gmail Message Received Trigger
Triggers when a new message is received in Gmail.
Aggregate Column Data
Searches for rows where a specific column matches a value and performs mathematical operations on data from another column.
Append Dimension
Tool to append new rows or columns to a sheet, increasing its size. use when you need to add empty rows or columns to an existing sheet.
Batch get spreadsheet
Retrieves data from specified cell ranges in a google spreadsheet; ensure the spreadsheet has at least one worksheet and any explicitly referenced sheet names in ranges exist.
Batch update spreadsheet
Updates a specified range in a google sheet with given values, or appends them as new rows if `first cell location` is omitted; ensure the target sheet exists and the spreadsheet contains at least one worksheet.
Batch Update Values by Data Filter
Tool to update values in ranges matching data filters. use when you need to update specific data in a google sheet based on criteria rather than fixed cell ranges.
Clear Basic Filter
Tool to clear the basic filter from a sheet. use when you need to remove an existing basic filter from a specific sheet within a google spreadsheet.
Clear spreadsheet values
Clears cell content (preserving formatting and notes) from a specified a1 notation range in a google spreadsheet; the range must correspond to an existing sheet and cells.
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