Escalate Urgent Emails to Linear in Real Time
Critical emails shouldn't get lost in your inbox. Notis instantly escalates urgent messages as comments on your active Linear issues so your team sees them immediately.
Trigger
New Gmail Message Received Trigger
Triggers when a new message is received in Gmail.
Action
Create a comment
Creates a new comment on a specified linear issue.
Why this helps
Important clients or vendors send urgent emails but they're just another message in your inbox. You're not sure if the team saw it, and critical messages sometimes don't get attention until it's too late.
- Urgent emails are flagged on Linear issues immediately
- Team gets real-time visibility into critical messages
- Reduces response time to urgent requests
- Keeps urgent communications in your working system
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Gmail and Linear to Notis.
- 2Create an automation: 'When an urgent email arrives (marked with [URGENT] or from a VIP), add a comment to our active priority issue in Linear.'
- 3Select 'New Gmail Message Received' as the trigger.
- 4Filter to emails with [URGENT] marker or from your key accounts.
- 5Specify which Linear issue or project to escalate to.
- 6Test by sending an urgent marked email and confirm it appears as a comment in Linear within seconds.
Questions about this workflow
How do I define which issue gets the escalation?
You can point to a specific issue, a team project, or let Notis match the email content to a related Linear issue using keywords.
What if there's no open issue for the escalation?
Your automation prompt can create a new issue if a match isn't found, ensuring urgent messages never go unaddressed.
Will team members get notifications for these comments?
Yes. Linear notifies the assignee and watchers of the issue, so your team is immediately aware of the escalation.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Gmail to Linear. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Gmail triggers
Linear 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.
Create linear attachment
Creates a new attachment and associates it with a specific, existing linear issue.
New Gmail Message Received Trigger
Triggers when a new message is received in Gmail.
Create a comment
Creates a new comment on a specified linear issue.
Create linear issue
Creates a new issue in a specified linear project and team, requiring a title and description, and allowing for optional properties like assignee, state, priority, cycle, and due date.
Get create issue default params
Fetches a linear team's default issue estimate and state, useful for pre-filling new issue forms.
Create a label
Creates a new label in linear for a specified team, used to categorize and organize issues.
Delete issue
Archives an existing linear issue by its id, which is linear's standard way of deleting issues; the operation is idempotent.
Get all teams
Retrieves all teams from the linear workspace without requiring any parameters.
Download issue attachments
Downloads a specific attachment from a linear issue; the `file name` must include the correct file extension.
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