One Prompt, One Week of Protected Calendar Time
Every Sunday evening at 6pm, Notis asks 'What are your top 3 focus areas this week?' You reply in WhatsApp, and Notis creates calendar blocks for deep work, meetings, and admin time.
Trigger
Recurring schedule
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Action
Quick Add Event
Parses natural language text to quickly create a basic google calendar event with its title, date, and time, suitable for simple scheduling; does not support direct attendee addition or recurring events, and `calendar id` must be valid if not 'primary'.
Why this helps
Neurodivergent founders struggle with weekly planning consistency. Without a ritual, the week devolves into reactive firefighting. Time management requires explicit calendar structures, but setting up recurring blocks manually is tedious and often skipped.
- Automates a key productivity ritual
- Ensures deep work time is reserved every week
- Creates structure without manual setup
- Reduces planning paralysis
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect WhatsApp and Google Calendar to Notis.
- 2Create an automation: 'Weekly Schedule Planning', Trigger set to 'Notis Cron' running every Sunday at 6pm.
- 3Tell Notis: 'Every Sunday evening, send me a WhatsApp message asking what my top 3 focus areas are this week. Based on my reply, create calendar events for: Monday morning deep work block (3 hours), Wednesday focus time (2 hours), and Friday review meeting (1 hour). Use my timezone settings.'
- 4Choose the reporting channel.
- 5Respond to the first Sunday prompt and verify blocks appear on your calendar.
Questions about this workflow
Can I change the day or time?
Yes, the cron schedule is fully customizable: 'Every Monday morning', 'Every Friday afternoon', etc.
What if I don't reply to the weekly prompt?
You can tell Notis to create default calendar blocks anyway, or wait for your input before creating anything.
Can it adjust based on my reply?
Yes, if you mention 'heavy meeting week', Notis can create shorter deep work blocks. The automation learns from your phrasing.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Whatsapp to Google Calendar. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Whatsapp triggers
Google Calendar actions
Message Status Updated
Triggers when a WhatsApp message status changes. IMPORTANT LIMITATION: WhatsApp Cloud API does not provide a native polling endpoint for message status. Status updates are ONLY delivered via webhooks in real-time. This trigger cannot directly poll the WhatsApp API for status updates. This trigger will return empty results as WhatsApp does not support this operation. To track message status updates, you must: 1. Set up a webhook endpoint to receive status notifications from WhatsApp 2. Store the webhook data in your own database 3. Use a different mechanism to query your stored webhook data For more information, see: - https://developers.facebook.com/docs/whatsapp/cloud-api/webhooks
Insert Calendar into List
Inserts an existing calendar into the user's calendar list.
New Message Received
Triggered in real time when your WhatsApp Business number receives an inbound message from a customer (text, media, location, or contact). Delivered via the Cloud API webhook.
Update Calendar List Entry
Updates an existing entry on the user\'s calendar list.
Interactive Reply Received
Triggered when a customer taps a quick-reply button or selects an option from an interactive list message you sent.
Delete Calendar
Deletes a secondary calendar. use calendars.clear for clearing all events on primary calendars.
Message Template Status Update
Triggered when the review status of a WhatsApp message template changes — for example approved, rejected, or flagged — on your WhatsApp Business Account.
Update Calendar
Updates metadata for a calendar.
Clear Calendar
Clears a primary calendar. this operation deletes all events associated with the primary calendar of an account.
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.
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.
Create a calendar
Creates a new, empty google calendar with the specified title (summary).
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