Protect Your Deep Work Time with Conflict Alerts
You have focus time blocked 9-11 AM daily. Someone schedules a meeting at 10 AM. A Telegram alert fires immediately so you can decline or reschedule before you're trapped in back-to-back meetings.
Trigger
Event Starting Soon
Triggers when a calendar event is within a configured number of minutes from starting. Returns event details, time remaining, attendees, and join links when available.
Action
Send Message
Send a text message to a telegram chat using the bot api.
Why this helps
You mark time for deep work but meetings keep getting scheduled anyway. By the time you notice, multiple people have accepted and rescheduling becomes a nightmare. Your focus time disappears without you fighting for it.
- Catch scheduling conflicts with your focus time immediately
- Protect deep work before meetings pile up
- React faster to boundary violations and reschedule early
- Keep your calendar sacred instead of reactive
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Google Calendar and Telegram to Notis.
- 2Mark your focus time blocks in Google Calendar with a specific label like 'FOCUS' or 'DEEP WORK.'
- 3Create an automation: "Alert me on Telegram if anyone schedules a meeting during my focus time blocks."
- 4Select the trigger: "Event Created" from Google Calendar.
- 5Choose Telegram as your destination.
Questions about this workflow
What if I accidentally create a meeting during focus time myself?
You can tell Notis to skip alerts for your own calendar entries if you prefer.
Can I decline automatically or do I have to manually reschedule?
Notis alerts you first. You decide whether to decline or propose new times. Automation here prevents mistakes.
What if I need to override focus time for an important meeting?
You handle the override manually. Notis just makes sure you're aware and intentional, not caught by surprise.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Google Calendar to Telegram. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Google Calendar triggers
Telegram actions
Attendee Response Changed
Polling trigger that fires when any attendee's RSVP changes to accepted, declined, or tentative. Returns attendee info and current status.
Answer Callback Query
Use this method to send answers to callback queries sent from inline keyboards. the answer will be displayed to the user as a notification at the top of the chat screen or as an alert.
Event Canceled or Deleted
Triggers when a Google Calendar event is cancelled or deleted. Returns minimal data: event_id, summary (if available), and cancellation timestamp.
Delete Message
Delete a message, including service messages, with certain limitations.
Event Starting Soon
Triggers when a calendar event is within a configured number of minutes from starting. Returns event details, time remaining, attendees, and join links when available.
Edit Message
Edit text messages sent by the bot.
Calendar Event Changes
**SOON TO BE DEPRECATED** - Use Calendar Event Sync (polling trigger) instead. Real-time webhook trigger for calendar event changes. Returns event metadata only. For full event data, use Calendar Event Sync (polling trigger).
Export Chat Invite Link
Generate a new primary invite link for a chat; any previously generated primary link is revoked. the bot must be an administrator in the chat for this to work and must have the appropriate administrator rights.
Event Created
Polling trigger that fires when a new calendar event is created. Returns event ID, summary, start/end times, and organizer info.
Forward Message
Forward messages of any kind. service messages can't be forwarded.
Calendar Event Sync
Polling trigger that returns full event data including details, attendees, and metadata. For real-time notifications with basic info, use Calendar Event Changes (webhook).
Get Chat Info
Get up to date information about the chat (current name of the user for one-on-one conversations, current username of a user, group or channel, etc.).
Event Updated
Triggers when an existing Google Calendar event is modified. Returns the event ID, change type, and the specific fields that changed with their previous and new values.
Get Chat Administrators
Get a list of administrators in a chat. on success, returns an array of chatmember objects that contains information about all chat administrators except other bots.
Get Chat History
Get chat history messages. note: this uses the getupdates method with specific parameters to retrieve historical messages.
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