Notify Your Team of Spreadsheet Updates Automatically
When a key row in your sheet updates, the linked Asana task gets new followers instantly, ensuring your team sees the change in their work inbox.
Trigger
Spreadsheet Row Changed
Triggers when a looked-up spreadsheet row changes. This trigger monitors a specific row (located by searching for a query value within a user-specified range) and fires when the row's values change, when the row appears, or when the row disappears.
Action
Add Followers to Task
Tool to add followers to a task in asana. use this tool when you need to add one or more users as followers to a specific task. this will notify them of updates to the task.
Why this helps
Neurodivergent founders often forget to ping the team about updates. Async notifications get lost in Slack, and group chat adds friction. Tasks languish because stakeholders don't know they've changed.
- Team sees updates in Asana, not buried in Slack
- No need to remember to @mention people manually
- Updates appear in their task inbox automatically
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Google Sheets and Asana to Notis.
- 2Ask Notis: 'When [specific row/lookup] in my [sheet] changes, add [team members] as followers to the matching [Asana task].' (Or portal: Automations > New, describe which row to watch and which task to update.)
- 3Define how Notis finds the matching task: for example, 'Look up the client name in column A, find the Asana task with that name, and add followers.'
- 4List the followers to add in your prompt: 'Add Alice, Bob, and the #project-team.'
- 5Test by changing a value in the tracked row and confirming followers are added to the task.
Questions about this workflow
Can I add different followers based on what changed?
Yes, describe it in your prompt: 'If status changes to Blocked, add the ops team. If budget changes, add finance.'
What if a follower is already added?
Notis checks before adding and skips duplicates. They won't be added twice.
Does this work if the row is updated by someone else?
Yes, any change to the tracked row triggers the automation, whether you made it or a team member did.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Google Sheets to Asana. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Google Sheets triggers
Asana actions
Aggregate Metric Changed
Triggers when an aggregate metric (SUM/COUNT/AVG/MIN/MAX) changes in a Google Sheets spreadsheet. This trigger monitors an aggregate calculation on a target column (optionally filtered by a search column/value) and fires when the calculated result changes.
Add Followers to Task
Tool to add followers to a task in asana. use this tool when you need to add one or more users as followers to a specific task. this will notify them of updates to the task.
Cell Range Values Changed
Triggers when values in a specified A1 range change in Google Sheets. This trigger monitors a specific cell or range of cells and fires when any values change.
Add Supporting Relationship to Goal
Tool to add a supporting goal relationship to a goal. use when you want to link a project, task, portfolio, or another goal as a supporting resource to a specific goal in asana.
Conditional Format Rule Changed
Triggers when conditional formatting rules change in a Google Spreadsheet. Detects when rules are added, updated, or removed. Uses snapshot-based diffing to detect changes between polls.
Add task to section
Adds an existing task to a section, optionally positioning it before or after another task in that section; if no position is specified, the task is added to the end.
Data Validation Rule Changed
Triggers when data validation rules change (added/updated/removed) in a Google Spreadsheet. Uses snapshot-based diffing to detect changes between polls.
Create Allocation
Creates a new allocation. use when you need to schedule or assign a specific amount of a user's time per week to a task or project within a defined period.
Developer Metadata Changed
Triggers when developer metadata entries change (new/updated/removed) in a Google Spreadsheet. Uses snapshot-based diffing to detect changes between polls.
Create a project
Creates a new asana project, requiring either a `workspace` or `team` gid for association, and returns the full project details.
Filtered Range Values Changed
Polling trigger that monitors Google Sheets filtered ranges for value changes. Uses snapshot-based diffing to detect when values matching a data filter change. Emits the matched values when changes are detected.
Create a tag in a workspace
Creates a new tag, with properties like name and color defined in the request body, within a specific asana workspace (using `workspace gid`); this tag helps categorize tasks, is confined to the workspace, and is not automatically applied to tasks.
New Rows in Google Sheet
Simple polling trigger that monitors Google Sheets for new rows. Detects when new rows are added and returns the complete row data. Perfect for triggering any workflow based on new sheet entries.
Create task in asana with specific details
Creates a new asana task; requires 'workspace', 'parent', or 'projects' for association, and 'followers', 'projects', 'tags' are set only at creation.
New Sheet Added in Google Spreadsheet
Polling trigger that detects when a new sheet is added to a Google Spreadsheet.
Create Attachment for Task
Tool to upload an attachment to a task. use when you need to attach a file to a specific task in asana.
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