Structured Daily Standups Without the Meeting Drain
Every morning at 9am, Notis sends a standup prompt to your team on WhatsApp: 'What are you focused on today? What's blocking you? Do you need help?' Your team replies with asynchronous updates, and you get a clear picture of the day without a meeting.
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
Your daily standup takes 30 minutes and half the team zones out. You could run it async on WhatsApp in 5 minutes, but setting up a daily reminder is tedious. So standups stay in Zoom, draining everyone's calendar.
- Replace 30-minute Zoom calls with 5-minute async WhatsApp updates
- Reduce meeting fatigue for your neurodivergent team
- Get clearer written updates than verbal meandering
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect your WhatsApp account to Notis.
- 2Tell Notis: 'Send a daily standup message to our team WhatsApp group every weekday at 9am. Ask: What are you focused on today? What's blocking you? Do you need help?'
- 3Select 'Scheduled' (cron trigger) and choose your time and frequency.
- 4Pick the team WhatsApp group as your channel.
- 5Test by manually sending one message to see the format, then let the automation run.
Questions about this workflow
Can I customize the standup questions?
Absolutely. Tell Notis your preferred questions—e.g., 'What did you ship yesterday? What ships today? Blockers?' It's all plain-language customization.
What if someone forgets to reply?
You can ask Notis to send a friendly reminder a few hours later, or just accept that async standups have more flexibility than synced ones—some people will reply after lunch instead of 9am, and that's okay.
How do I collect responses in one place?
Replies come in WhatsApp. You can review them in the chat thread, or ask Notis to summarize them in a document or Slack at the end of the day.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Linear to Whatsapp. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Linear triggers
Whatsapp actions
Comment Received Trigger
Triggered when a comment is received.
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.
Issue Created Trigger
Triggered when a new issue is created.
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.
Issue Updated Trigger
Triggered when an issue is updated. For example labels are changed, issue status is changed, etc.
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.
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).
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.
Private Team Issue Created
Fires when a new issue appears in a private Linear team (polled with the connected user's token).
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.
Private Team Issue Properties Updated
Fires when properties on an issue change in a private Linear team (polled with the connected user's token).
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.
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.
Get phone number
Get details of a specific phone number associated with a whatsapp business account.
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.
Get phone numbers
Get all phone numbers associated with a whatsapp business account (waba).
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