Weekly Project Updates Without the Status Meeting
Every Friday at 4pm, Notis sends your leadership team a WhatsApp update: how many issues were closed, what blockers came up, what ships next week. Clear, written, and stored for reference. No meeting needed.
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 Thursday status meeting drains everyone's focus time. Half the info you discuss could be written in 2 minutes. But it feels important to sync, so the meeting persists as overhead.
- Replace weekly status meetings with a 2-minute WhatsApp update
- Give your team back 30 minutes of focus time each week
- Create a written record of project progress for future reference
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect WhatsApp to Notis.
- 2Tell Notis: 'Every Friday at 4pm, send the leadership WhatsApp group a summary: how many Linear issues closed this week, top 3 blockers, and what we ship next week.'
- 3Select 'Scheduled' and set the day/time to Friday at 4pm.
- 4Choose the leadership WhatsApp group as your channel.
- 5Review the first automated message, then keep it running.
Questions about this workflow
How does Notis know what counts as a blocker or win?
It reads your Linear issues labeled 'blocker' or 'shipped' and summarizes them. You can refine what it includes—e.g., 'Only count issues labeled urgent or high priority.'
Can I customize when the digest goes out?
Yes. Change the day and time based on your timezone and when leadership prefers to review—Monday morning, Friday evening, whatever works.
What if nothing interesting happened that week?
Notis still sends an update, but it might be shorter. You can always edit the automation to skip the message if there are no closed issues, or ask it to include work in progress.
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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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