Protect your focus time and notify your team at once
You see a design to work on. React with a 'focused' emoji in Slack and Notis blocks 2 hours on your calendar AND posts a message letting your team know you're offline.
Trigger
Message Reaction Added
Triggered when a reaction is added to a message in Slack. Supports optional filtering by channel and emoji name.
Action
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.
Why this helps
You block time to focus but don't tell anyone, so they think you're available and ping you constantly. Or you tell people verbally but forget to calendar it, so your schedule looks open.
- Block focus time and notify your team in one action instead of two
- Give people permission to not interrupt because it's on your calendar and a message
- Make your focus time visible so your team respects the boundary
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Slack and Google Calendar to Notis
- 2Tell Notis: 'When I react with a laser emoji, block 2 hours on my calendar and post a message saying I'm in focus time'
- 3Choose the emoji, duration, and message wording
- 4Test by reacting to any message in a channel
Questions about this workflow
Will people in other timezones know what time you're unavailable?
Notis will post a message like 'Flo is in focus time until 3pm PT' so it's clear when you're back.
What if someone urgently needs you during focus time?
You can ask Notis to let critical people know how to reach you in an emergency, or just let the pings queue up for after your session.
Can I use different emojis for different focus durations?
Yes. You could use 🟢 for 1 hour, 🟡 for 2 hours, 🔴 for 'do not disturb' sessions.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Slack to Google Calendar. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Slack triggers
Google Calendar actions
New Channel Created Trigger
Triggered when a new channel is created in Slack.
Insert Calendar into List
Inserts an existing calendar into the user's calendar list.
Channel Message Received
Triggered when a message is posted in a Slack channel (public, private, or multi-party IM). Does NOT match direct messages.
Update Calendar List Entry
Updates an existing entry on the user\'s calendar list.
Direct Message Received
Triggered when a new direct message (DM) is sent to a user in Slack. Catches all DMs across all DM channels.
Delete Calendar
Deletes a secondary calendar. use calendars.clear for clearing all events on primary calendars.
Message Reaction Added
Triggered when a reaction is added to a message in Slack. Supports optional filtering by channel and emoji name.
Update Calendar
Updates metadata for a calendar.
Message Reaction Removed
Triggered when a reaction is removed from a message in Slack. Supports optional filtering by channel and emoji name.
Clear Calendar
Clears a primary calendar. this operation deletes all events associated with the primary calendar of an account.
Reaction Added Trigger
DEPRECATED: use `SLACK_MESSAGE_REACTION_ADDED` instead. Triggered when a reaction is added to a message in Slack.
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.
Reaction Removed Trigger
DEPRECATED: use `SLACK_MESSAGE_REACTION_REMOVED` instead. Triggered when a reaction is removed from a message.
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.
New Bot Message Received Trigger
DEPRECATED: use `SLACK_CHANNEL_MESSAGE_RECEIVED` with `is_bot_message=true` instead. Triggered when a new bot message is posted to a Slack channel.
Create a calendar
Creates a new, empty google calendar with the specified title (summary).
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