Generate Your Monthly Retrospective Automatically
Month ends and you're supposed to send a retrospective celebrating wins—but writing it feels like another task. Notis finds all your closed issues for the month and drafts a retrospective, complete with metrics and highlights. Review and send in 5 minutes.
Trigger
Recurring schedule
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Action
Create email draft
Creates a gmail email draft, supporting to/cc/bcc, subject, plain/html body (ensure `is html=true` for html), attachments, and threading.
Why this helps
Retrospectives get skipped because the blank-page anxiety is real. You end up not documenting wins, and the team doesn't celebrate progress.
- Draft captures all your closed issues—no hunting for what shipped
- Celebrates wins without you having to remember or write it
- Team stays connected to progress and impact
- Reduces the cognitive load of month-end reporting
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Linear and Gmail to Notis.
- 2Create a recurring automation: 'On the last Friday of every month, draft an email summarizing my closed issues and celebrating the team's wins.'
- 3Tell Notis what metrics to include (count of issues closed, impact highlights, any blockers overcome).
- 4Notis drafts the retrospective; you review, add any narrative context, and send.
- 5Enable it—monthly retros now happen without the blank-page struggle.
Questions about this workflow
What if nothing shipped this month?
Notis still drafts something—it shows what was started, what's in progress, and any blockers. An honest 'slow month, focused on unblocking' is still valuable.
Can I customize the retrospective format?
Yes. Tell Notis: 'Highlight feature releases, include blockers, add a team shout-out.' It adapts to your style.
Who should get the retrospective?
You choose: just your team, stakeholders, leadership, or the whole company. Notis routes based on your rules.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Linear to Gmail. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Linear triggers
Gmail actions
Comment Received Trigger
Triggered when a comment is received.
Modify email labels
Adds and/or removes specified gmail labels for a message; ensure `message id` and all `label ids` are valid (use 'listlabels' for custom label ids).
Issue Created Trigger
Triggered when a new issue is created.
Create email draft
Creates a gmail email draft, supporting to/cc/bcc, subject, plain/html body (ensure `is html=true` for html), attachments, and threading.
Issue Updated Trigger
Triggered when an issue is updated. For example labels are changed, issue status is changed, etc.
Create label
Creates a new label with a unique name in the specified user's gmail account.
Private Team Comment Created
Fires when a new comment is posted on an issue in a private Linear team (polled with the connected user's token).
Delete Draft
Permanently deletes a specific gmail draft using its id; ensure the draft exists and the user has necessary permissions for the given `user id`.
Private Team Issue Created
Fires when a new issue appears in a private Linear team (polled with the connected user's token).
Delete message
Permanently deletes a specific email message by its id from a gmail mailbox; for `user id`, use 'me' for the authenticated user or an email address to which the authenticated user has delegated access.
Private Team Issue Properties Updated
Fires when properties on an issue change in a private Linear team (polled with the connected user's token).
Fetch emails
Fetches a list of email messages from a gmail account, supporting filtering, pagination, and optional full content retrieval.
Project Created
Fires when a new Linear project is created. Covers projects in both public and private teams — polls with the connected user's token, so visibility matches what the connected user can see in Linear.
Fetch message by message ID
Fetches a specific email message by its id, provided the `message id` exists and is accessible to the authenticated `user id`.
Project Properties Updated
Fires when properties on a Linear project change (status, lead, target date, priority, etc.). Covers projects in both public and private teams — polls with the connected user's token.
Fetch Message by Thread ID
Retrieves messages from a gmail thread using its `thread id`, where the thread must be accessible by the specified `user id`.
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