Start Your Day With a WhatsApp Summary of Your Google Drive Activity
Instead of browsing through files and notifications all morning, Notis delivers a concise WhatsApp message each day with all the activity in your Google Drive from the past 24 hours—new files, shares, and updates in one place.
Trigger
Recurring schedule
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Action
Send message
Send a text message to a whatsapp number. note: the message will reflect on the recipient's phone number only if they have texted first.
Why this helps
Neurodivergent founders struggle with getting grounded each morning because they're unsure what's new in their projects. Checking Google Drive is overwhelming; skipping it means being blindsided by updates.
- Start each day fully informed about your team's activity
- Reduce morning overwhelm by getting a curated summary instead of raw notifications
- Catch missed updates and new files in one message
- Free up mental energy by outsourcing the review process
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Google Drive and WhatsApp to Notis.
- 2Create a new automation and tell Notis: 'Every morning at [your preferred time, e.g., 8 AM], send me a WhatsApp message summarizing all Google Drive activity from the past 24 hours, including new files, shares, and updates.'
- 3Set the trigger to 'Scheduled (daily)' and select your timezone.
- 4Choose WhatsApp as the notification channel.
- 5Test by manually triggering the automation or wait for the next scheduled time, then adjust the summary format in your prompt if needed.
Questions about this workflow
What time will I receive the daily summary?
You choose the time in your automation prompt. Notis will send the message at your specified time in your configured timezone.
Can I customize what appears in the daily summary?
Yes. Specify in your prompt what to include—new files, share notifications, specific folder updates, or team member activity.
What if there's no activity in Google Drive on a particular day?
Notis will still send the summary, noting that there was no activity. You can ask Notis to skip the message if there are no changes, if you prefer.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Google Drive to Whatsapp. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Google Drive triggers
Whatsapp actions
Comment Added (Docs/Sheets/Slides)
Triggers when a new comment is added to Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides.
Create message template
Create a new message template for the whatsapp business account. templates must be approved by whatsapp before they can be used. templates are required for marketing messages and messages sent outside the 24-hour window.
File Created
Triggers when a new file is created in Google Drive.
Delete message template
Delete a message template from the whatsapp business account. this permanently removes the template and it cannot be recovered. only delete templates that are no longer needed.
File Deleted or Trashed
Triggers when a file is moved to trash or permanently deleted in Drive.
Get business profile
Get the business profile information for a whatsapp business phone number. this includes business details like description, address, website, and contact info.
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 media
Get information about uploaded media including a temporary download url. the download url is valid for 5 minutes and can be used to retrieve the actual media file. this is useful for downloading media that was sent to your whatsapp number.
File Updated
Triggers when a file's metadata or content changes in Google Drive.
Get media info
Get metadata about uploaded media without generating a download url. this is useful for checking file size, type, and hash without downloading the file. use get media if you need the actual download url.
Google Drive Changes
Triggers when changes are detected in a Google Drive.
Get message templates
Get all message templates for the whatsapp business account. templates are required for sending messages outside the 24-hour window and for marketing/utility messages.
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 phone number
Get details of a specific phone number associated with a whatsapp business account.
Get phone numbers
Get all phone numbers associated with a whatsapp business account (waba).
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