Never miss a critical email from your VIPs
Your investors, key clients, and important partners deserve your immediate attention. Notis watches for their emails and alerts your Slack so you can respond fast.
Trigger
New Gmail Message Received Trigger
Triggers when a new message is received in Gmail.
Action
Post message to channel
Deprecated: posts a message to a slack channel, direct message, or private channel. use `send message` instead.
Why this helps
Founders miss time-sensitive emails from VIPs because they're scattered across hundreds of other messages, leading to delayed responses and damaged relationships.
- Respond to VIPs within minutes instead of hours by getting alerted immediately
- Prevent missed opportunities from key stakeholders like investors or major clients
- Reduce anxiety about missing critical messages that could affect your business
- Automate VIP detection without manual checking throughout the day
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Gmail and Slack to Notis.
- 2Create an automation: tell Notis 'Alert me in #vip-emails when [key person name or email domain] sends me an email' or use the portal.
- 3Describe the outcome: 'Post a message with the sender, subject, and preview of the email content to the channel.'
- 4Select the trigger: New Gmail Message Received.
- 5Pick a Slack channel for your VIP alerts (create a dedicated #vip-emails channel if you don't have one).
- 6Test by having a trusted colleague send you a test email from the VIP domain or account.
Questions about this workflow
Can I add multiple VIP senders to one automation?
Absolutely. In the prompt, list all the VIP email addresses, domains, or person names. Notis will alert you for any of them (e.g., 'from any investor@venturefirm.com or partner@acme.co').
What counts as a VIP email?
Define it however makes sense for your business: board members, major clients, key investors, strategic partners, or anyone whose emails require priority handling.
Can I turn this off temporarily?
Yes. You can pause the automation anytime in the portal, or ask Notis to disable it from Slack.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Gmail to Slack. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Gmail triggers
Slack 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.
Set snooze duration
Deprecated: turns on do not disturb mode for the current user, or changes its duration. use `set dnd duration` instead.
New Gmail Message Received Trigger
Triggers when a new message is received in Gmail.
Add a custom emoji to a Slack team
Deprecated: adds a custom emoji to a slack workspace given a unique name and an image url. use `add emoji` instead.
Add an emoji alias
Adds an alias for an existing custom emoji in a slack enterprise grid organization.
Add a remote file
Adds a reference to an external file (e.g., google drive, dropbox) to slack for discovery and sharing, requiring a unique `external id` and an `external url` accessible by slack.
Add a star to an item
Stars a channel, file, file comment, or a specific message in slack.
Add call participants
Registers new participants added to a slack call.
Add emoji
Adds a custom emoji to a slack workspace given a unique name and an image url; subject to workspace emoji limits.
Add reaction to message
Adds a specified emoji reaction to an existing message in a slack channel, identified by its timestamp; does not remove or retrieve reactions.
Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Not just Gmail and Slack. Any combination from 985+ integrations.
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