Automate Release Announcement Email Drafts
When you publish a release on GitHub, Notis instantly drafts a professional announcement email with the release notes, version, and asset links ready to send.
Trigger
GitHub Release State Changed
Triggers when a specific GitHub release (identified by tag name) changes. Monitors the release title, body/notes, draft flag, prerelease flag, published timestamp, target branch/commit, and the set of attached assets. The payload includes the full current release details, a list of which fields changed, and the previous values for comparison.
Action
Create email draft
Creates a gmail email draft, supporting to/cc/bcc, subject, plain/html body (ensure `is html=true` for html), attachments, and threading.
Why this helps
Manually copying release information from GitHub to email drafts is repetitive and error-prone, and the delays mean release announcements lag behind actual availability.
- Save time by auto-generating email drafts instead of manually copying release details
- Ensure consistency between GitHub releases and email announcements
- Personalize each announcement before sending without starting from scratch
- Accelerate time-to-market by announcing releases immediately after publishing
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect your GitHub and Gmail accounts to Notis
- 2Tell Notis: 'When a new release is published, draft an email with the release title, version, release notes, and all asset download links'
- 3Select 'GitHub Release State Changed' as your trigger and filter for published releases only
- 4Choose email as your channel for automation run confirmations
- 5Publish a test release in GitHub and verify that a draft appears in Gmail with all the release information
Questions about this workflow
Can the draft include different information for different audiences?
Yes, tell Notis to create separate drafts for customers, team members, or press—each with tailored messaging.
Will it include download links for release assets?
Absolutely. The draft pulls in all uploaded assets (binaries, checksums, etc.) with their download links.
Can I review before sending?
That's the whole point—Notis creates a draft so you can personalize it, add marketing messaging, or adjust the tone before hitting send.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link GitHub to Gmail. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
GitHub triggers
Gmail actions
New Workflow Artifact Created
Triggers when a new workflow artifact is created in a GitHub repository. Monitors for newly created GitHub Actions workflow artifacts. Optionally filters by artifact name to restrict monitoring to specific artifacts.
Modify email labels
Adds and/or removes specified gmail labels for a message; ensure `message id` and all `label ids` are valid (use 'listlabels' for custom label ids).
Branch Changed
Triggers when a GitHub branch changes. Monitors a specific branch for: - New commits pushed (head commit SHA changes) - Protection status toggled (branch becomes protected or unprotected) - Protection settings changed, including: required status checks and their enforcement level, admin enforcement, required pull request reviews (dismiss stale reviews, code owner reviews, approving review count, last push approval), required linear history, force push allowance, deletion allowance, conversation resolution, branch locking, and fork syncing.
Create email draft
Creates a gmail email draft, supporting to/cc/bcc, subject, plain/html body (ensure `is html=true` for html), attachments, and threading.
New Branch Created
Triggers when a new branch is created in a GitHub repository. Detects newly created branches. Deleted branches do not fire events.
Create label
Creates a new label with a unique name in the specified user's gmail account.
Check Run Status / Conclusion Changed
Triggers when a specific GitHub check run changes its status or conclusion. Monitors a single check run for changes to: status (queued, in_progress, completed, etc.), conclusion (success, failure, neutral, cancelled, skipped, timed_out, action_required), started_at, and completed_at.
Delete Draft
Permanently deletes a specific gmail draft using its id; ensure the draft exists and the user has necessary permissions for the given `user id`.
Check Suite Status / Conclusion Changed
Triggers when a GitHub check suite changes its status or conclusion for a given ref. Monitors all check suites associated with a git reference (branch, tag, or commit SHA) for changes to status (queued, in_progress, completed, etc.) and conclusion (success, failure, neutral, cancelled, skipped, timed_out, action_required, startup_failure, stale). Optionally filters by GitHub App ID.
Delete message
Permanently deletes a specific email message by its id from a gmail mailbox; for `user id`, use 'me' for the authenticated user or an email address to which the authenticated user has delegated access.
New Code Scanning Alert Created
Triggers when a new code scanning alert is created in a repository. Fires an event for each newly created code scanning alert detected in the configured repository. Alerts can be filtered by Git reference, scanning tool, state, and severity. The payload includes the alert number, rule details, tool information, state, severity, and the location of the most recent instance.
Fetch emails
Fetches a list of email messages from a gmail account, supporting filtering, pagination, and optional full content retrieval.
New Repository Collaborator Added
Triggers when a new collaborator is added to a GitHub repository. Monitors the full list of collaborators on a repository and fires an event for each newly added collaborator. The payload includes the collaborator's GitHub username, account ID, profile URL, avatar URL, permission flags (pull, triage, push, maintain, admin), and assigned role name.
Fetch message by message ID
Fetches a specific email message by its id, provided the `message id` exists and is accessible to the authenticated `user id`.
Commit Event
Triggered when a new commit is pushed to a repository.
Fetch Message by Thread ID
Retrieves messages from a gmail thread using its `thread id`, where the thread must be accessible by the specified `user id`.
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