Turn Email Threads into Tracked Work Items
Stop toggling between email and project management. When a new email arrives, Notis instantly creates a Linear issue with the full thread as context, so you never lose a customer request or team idea.
Trigger
New Email Received
Trigger for new emails in an AgentMail inbox
Action
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.
Why this helps
Emails pile up in your inbox while the actual work lives in Linear. By the time you manually log the task, context is stale and some messages get missed.
- Every incoming email automatically becomes a Linear issue with full history preserved
- Eliminates the manual step of retyping or copying email content into issue tracking
- Reduces inbox cognitive load by centralizing all work discussions in Linear
- Catches urgent customer requests before they slip through email gaps
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Agent mail and Linear integrations to Notis (one-time setup in the portal).
- 2In the Notis portal or by messaging Notis directly, create a new automation with the plain-language instruction: 'When a new email arrives in my inbox, create a matching issue in Linear with the email body and subject as the issue title and description.'
- 3Select 'New Email Received' as the trigger and choose a Notis channel (Telegram, WhatsApp, or email) where Notis will report successful runs and errors.
- 4Test by sending yourself a test email and confirm a new Linear issue appears with the full email thread attached.
- 5Refine the automation if needed (e.g., auto-assign to yourself or specific team member) and activate for all incoming emails.
Questions about this workflow
Will this create a Linear issue for every email, even newsletters?
Notis creates issues based on your prompt. You can refine it to exclude certain senders or keywords (e.g., 'unless the email is from marketing@example.com') and Notis will filter automatically.
Can I auto-assign the issue to a team member based on the email sender?
Yes. Include that detail in your plain-language prompt: 'Assign to whoever handles customer requests' or 'Assign to @jane if the email mentions feature requests.' Notis interprets this without any field mapping.
What happens to the original email?
The email stays in your inbox (Notis doesn't delete it). The Linear issue links back to the email content, so you have a single source of truth in Linear while email remains as backup.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Agent mail to Linear. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Agent mail triggers
Linear actions
New Email Received
Trigger for new emails in an AgentMail inbox
Create linear attachment
Creates a new attachment and associates it with a specific, existing linear issue.
Create a comment
Creates a new comment on a specified linear issue.
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.
Get create issue default params
Fetches a linear team's default issue estimate and state, useful for pre-filling new issue forms.
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.
Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Not just Agent mail and Linear. Any combination from 985+ integrations.
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