One Weekly Email Digest, Zero Distraction
Checking email multiple times a day drains your focus and makes it hard to get into deep work. But ignoring email means you miss important messages. This workflow solves that problem by sending you a curated digest of your email every Monday morning, so you can catch up once a week instead of context-switching constantly.
Trigger
Recurring schedule
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Action
Add content to Notion page
Deprecated: appends a single content block to a notion page or a parent block (must be page, toggle, to-do, bulleted/numbered list, callout, or quote); invoke repeatedly to add multiple blocks.
Why this helps
ADHD and related conditions make constant notifications triggering and exhausting. You either check email obsessively (killing productivity) or ignore it for days (risking missed deadlines). The middle ground is hard to find without automation.
- Consolidate a week of email into one easy review session
- Stop checking email multiple times a day and protect your focus
- Catch everything important without the anxiety of notification overwhelm
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Gmail and Notion to Notis.
- 2Tell Notis: 'Every Monday at 9 AM, create a digest in my Notion inbox with a summary of the key emails I received this week. Include subject, sender, and a brief snippet for each.'
- 3Notis will ask you to define what counts as 'key' (e.g., emails from certain senders, with certain keywords, or marked as important).
- 4Choose which Notion page or database receives the digest and pick your notification channel.
- 5Wait for Monday at 9 AM or trigger a test to see your first digest appear in Notion.
Questions about this workflow
Can I change the day or time the digest is sent?
Absolutely. Tell Notis your preferred schedule: 'Send the digest every Wednesday at 5 PM' or 'Every Friday before I leave work.' Notis respects your timezone and preferences.
What if I want to focus on specific types of emails?
In your prompt, specify your criteria: 'Only include emails from clients, vendors, or messages marked as important.' Notis will filter to only what matters to you.
Is the digest created as one page or multiple entries?
You decide. Ask Notis to create one page with all summaries or separate entries per email, depending on how you like to review things.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Gmail to Notion. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Gmail triggers
Notion 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 multiple content blocks (bulk, user-friendly)
Efficiently adds multiple standard content blocks to a notion page in a single api call with automatic markdown parsing. the 'content' field in notionrichtext blocks now automatically detects and parses markdown formatting including headers (# ## ###), bold (**text**), italic (*text*), strikethrough (~~text~~), inline code (`code`), links ([text](url)), and more. ideal for bulk content creation, ai agents, and replacing multiple individual add page content calls. supports automatic text formatting, content splitting, and up to 100 blocks per request.
New Gmail Message Received Trigger
Triggers when a new message is received in Gmail.
Add content to Notion page
Deprecated: appends a single content block to a notion page or a parent block (must be page, toggle, to-do, bulleted/numbered list, callout, or quote); invoke repeatedly to add multiple blocks.
Append complex blocks (advanced, full control)
Appends complex blocks with full notion block structure to a parent block or page. use for advanced scenarios requiring precise control: code blocks, tables, embeds, nested children within blocks, or when working with pre-built notion block objects. requires full notion api block schema - use add multiple page content for simpler content creation.
Archive Notion Page
Archives (moves to trash) or unarchives (restores from trash) a specified notion page.
Create comment
Adds a comment to a notion page (via `parent page id`) or to an existing discussion thread (via `discussion id`); cannot create new discussion threads on specific blocks (inline comments).
Create Notion Database
Creates a new notion database as a subpage under a specified parent page with a defined properties schema; use this action exclusively for creating new databases.
Create Notion page
Creates a new empty page in a notion workspace.
Delete a block
Archives a notion block, page, or database using its id, which sets its 'archived' property to true (like moving to "trash" in the ui) and allows it to be restored later.
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