Weekly Capacity Check: Plan Ahead on Fridays
Every Friday afternoon, Notis reports your calendar capacity and Linear workload for the coming week, so you can adjust scope before it's too late.
Trigger
Recurring schedule
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Action
Find free slots
Finds free/busy time slots in google calendars for specified calendars within a defined time range (defaults to the current day utc if `time min`/`time max` are omitted), enhancing busy intervals with event details; `time min` must precede `time max` if both are provided.
Why this helps
Neurodivergent founders often discover they're overbooked by mid-week, when it's too late to renegotiate or deprioritize. Fridays are the last chance to reset.
- Provides Friday visibility into next week's capacity
- Enables proactive scope negotiation before the week starts
- Prevents mid-week overcommitment crises
- Supports intentional work planning
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Google Calendar and Linear to Notis.
- 2Create an automation: 'Friday Capacity Review'.
- 3Set the prompt: 'Every Friday at 4pm, report on next week's capacity: find free time slots on the calendar, count the number of open Linear issues, and flag if I'm more than 70% booked. Suggest scope cuts if overbooked.'
- 4Select trigger: 'Weekly at Friday 4pm'.
- 5Choose your notification channel (Slack or email preferred).
- 6Enable and let it run—each Friday you'll get a capacity assessment.
Questions about this workflow
Should this include issues from all projects or just active ones?
By default, all open issues. You can customize: 'Only count issues assigned to me' or 'Exclude backlog items that aren't assigned yet'.
What's considered 'overbooked'?
You define it. By default, 70% calendar occupancy triggers a warning. You can adjust: 'Flag if more than 50% booked' or 'Flag if fewer than 3 free hours'.
Can I run this on different days or times?
Yes. Adjust the trigger: 'Every Monday morning' or 'Every other Friday' depending on your review cadence.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Linear to Google Calendar. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Linear triggers
Google Calendar actions
Comment Received Trigger
Triggered when a comment is received.
Insert Calendar into List
Inserts an existing calendar into the user's calendar list.
Issue Created Trigger
Triggered when a new issue is created.
Update Calendar List Entry
Updates an existing entry on the user\'s calendar list.
Issue Updated Trigger
Triggered when an issue is updated. For example labels are changed, issue status is changed, etc.
Delete Calendar
Deletes a secondary calendar. use calendars.clear for clearing all events on primary calendars.
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).
Update Calendar
Updates metadata for a calendar.
Private Team Issue Created
Fires when a new issue appears in a private Linear team (polled with the connected user's token).
Clear Calendar
Clears a primary calendar. this operation deletes all events associated with the primary calendar of an account.
Private Team Issue Properties Updated
Fires when properties on an issue change in a private Linear team (polled with the connected user's token).
Create Event
Creates an event on a google calendar, needing rfc3339 utc start/end times (end after start) and write access to the calendar. by default, adds the organizer as an attendee unless exclude organizer is set to true.
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.
Delete event
Deletes a specified event by `event id` from a google calendar (`calendar id`); this action is idempotent and raises a 404 error if the event is not found.
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.
Create a calendar
Creates a new, empty google calendar with the specified title (summary).
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