From Collaboration to Action: Google Docs Comments Become Linear Issues
Comments on Google Docs are feedback, but they live in the wrong place. Notis turns each comment into a Linear issue, so your team acts on feedback immediately instead of losing it.
Trigger
Comment Added (Docs/Sheets/Slides)
Triggers when a new comment is added to Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides.
Action
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.
Why this helps
Collaborative feedback gets scattered across Google Docs comments. Neurodivergent teams struggle to remember which comments need action, leading to delayed decisions and forgotten follow-ups.
- Feedback is immediately actionable as a Linear issue
- No need to manually transcribe comments into tickets
- Keeps collaboration context centralized
- Ensures no comment gets forgotten
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Ensure both Google Drive and Linear are connected to Notis in the portal.
- 2Tell Notis 'When someone comments on a Google Doc, create a Linear issue' (or use the portal automation builder).
- 3Describe how you want the issue created: 'Use the comment text as the issue title and include who commented and when.'
- 4Select 'Comment Added' as your trigger.
- 5Pick your channel for notifications and test by adding a comment to a Google Doc.
Questions about this workflow
Will every comment trigger a new issue?
Yes. If you want to be more selective, use a Notis webhook and only send comments you consider actionable, or ask Notis to 'only create issues for comments that mention @action or #urgent.'
Can I include the document title or link in the Linear issue?
Yes, definitely. Tell Notis 'Include a link to the Google Doc and mention the document name' and it will add that context automatically.
What if I want to thread replies to the same issue instead of creating multiple issues?
You can, but it requires a more complex setup. Ask Notis 'Create one issue per document and add all comments as replies to it' and it will group them for you.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Google Drive to Linear. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Google Drive triggers
Linear actions
Comment Added (Docs/Sheets/Slides)
Triggers when a new comment is added to Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides.
Create linear attachment
Creates a new attachment and associates it with a specific, existing linear issue.
File Created
Triggers when a new file is created in Google Drive.
Create a comment
Creates a new comment on a specified linear issue.
File Deleted or Trashed
Triggers when a file is moved to trash or permanently deleted in Drive.
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.
File Shared (Permissions Added)
Triggers when new sharing permissions are granted to a file or folder. Uses Drive's `changes.list` endpoint with inline `permissions` in the `fields` mask so each change carries the file's current permission set provider-atomically. We diff that against `seen_permission_keys` to identify newly added grants. Drive page tokens are the primary cursor; if Drive rejects a stored token, the trigger raises `PollingTriggerError` without clearing state rather than silently re-baselining and dropping events. Limitation: truly ephemeral permissions (added and revoked between two polls without any other file modification in between) are not detected. Drive Activity API would catch those but requires an additional OAuth scope and a different payload contract.
Get create issue default params
Fetches a linear team's default issue estimate and state, useful for pre-filling new issue forms.
File Updated
Triggers when a file's metadata or content changes in Google Drive.
Create a label
Creates a new label in linear for a specified team, used to categorize and organize issues.
Google Drive Changes
Triggers when changes are detected in a Google Drive.
Delete issue
Archives an existing linear issue by its id, which is linear's standard way of deleting issues; the operation is idempotent.
New File Matching Query
Triggers when a new Google Drive file matches a provided query. This is the legacy query-centric trigger: it preserves Drive API query config such as ``corpora`` / ``driveId`` aliases and emits the historical ``file_matching_query`` event type. ``FileCreatedTrigger`` covers the broader "new file" case and emits ``file_created``.
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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