Turn Urgent Telegram Messages into High-Priority Linear Tasks
When someone flags something urgent in Telegram, Notis immediately updates or creates a Linear issue with priority set to high. Critical work stays critical across tools.
Trigger
New Message Received
Triggered when your bot receives a new message in a private chat, group, or supergroup. To receive every message in a group, Privacy Mode must be disabled for the bot in BotFather.
Action
Update issue
Updates an existing linear issue using its `issue id`; requires at least one other attribute for modification, and all provided entity ids (for state, assignee, labels, etc.) must be valid.
Why this helps
Urgent messages in Telegram get lost among routine chatter. By the time you see them, the problem has compounded. You need a way to instantly signal priority without leaving Telegram.
- Urgent work gets flagged in Linear immediately, no manual escalation
- Your team knows which issues demand immediate attention
- Reduce the chance that critical tasks slip through the cracks
- Less time spent triaging and re-prioritizing
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Telegram and Linear to Notis in the portal.
- 2Ask Notis: 'When I send a message in Telegram that contains a priority keyword like URGENT or CRITICAL, set the Linear issue to high priority.'
- 3Notis will ask you to confirm the trigger (New Message Received) and which Telegram group to monitor.
- 4Choose where to receive run reports (Slack, email, or Telegram).
- 5Test by sending an urgent-flagged message and verify the Linear issue updates to high priority.
Questions about this workflow
What keywords trigger the priority escalation?
You define them. Common examples are URGENT, CRITICAL, BLOCKER, or ASAP. Notis can also trigger on emoji reactions like an exclamation mark.
Will this create a new issue or update existing ones?
By default, it creates a new issue with high priority. You can customize this in conversation with Notis.
Can I set other properties besides priority?
Yes. Tell Notis what else to set: due date, assignee, label, etc. It will apply all of them at creation time.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Telegram to Linear. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Telegram triggers
Linear actions
New Message Received
Triggered when your bot receives a new message in a private chat, group, or supergroup. To receive every message in a group, Privacy Mode must be disabled for the bot in BotFather.
Create linear attachment
Creates a new attachment and associates it with a specific, existing linear issue.
New Channel Post
Triggered when a new post is published to a channel where your bot is an administrator.
Create a comment
Creates a new comment on a specified linear issue.
Callback Query Received
Triggered when a user taps an inline keyboard button attached to one of your bot's messages.
Create linear issue
Creates a new issue in a specified linear project and team, requiring a title and description, and allowing for optional properties like assignee, state, priority, cycle, and due date.
Message Edited
Triggered when a message in a chat your bot can see is edited by its sender.
Get create issue default params
Fetches a linear team's default issue estimate and state, useful for pre-filling new issue forms.
New Chat Member
Triggered when a new member joins a group or supergroup the bot belongs to, including when the bot itself is added.
Create a label
Creates a new label in linear for a specified team, used to categorize and organize issues.
Delete issue
Archives an existing linear issue by its id, which is linear's standard way of deleting issues; the operation is idempotent.
Get all teams
Retrieves all teams from the linear workspace without requiring any parameters.
Download issue attachments
Downloads a specific attachment from a linear issue; the `file name` must include the correct file extension.
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