Organize Events Into the Right Calendar Automatically

A meeting request lands in Gmail. Notis creates the event and automatically places it in the right calendar—Work, Clients, or Personal—based on who's involved and what they're about. Your calendars stay organized effortlessly.

Trigger

New Gmail Message Received Trigger

Triggers when a new message is received in Gmail.

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Action

Move Event

Moves an event to another calendar, i.e., changes an event's organizer.

Why this helps

You create events quickly and dump them all in 'Primary Calendar'. Later your color-coded system is useless because nothing's organized. Mixing personal and work events makes schedules hard to scan.

  • Keep your calendar structure organized without manual sorting
  • Different calendars stay visually distinct and useful
  • Reduce cognitive load by having events in expected places
  • Help others understand your schedule by proper calendar grouping

Setup

Build it in a few focused steps.

  • 1Connect Gmail and Google Calendar to Notis, and ensure your sub-calendars (Work, Personal, etc.) exist
  • 2Create automation: 'When I receive an email with a meeting request, create the event and place it in the correct calendar: Work events in my Work calendar, personal items in Personal, and client calls in Clients'
  • 3Choose 'New Email Received' trigger and your channel
  • 4Test by receiving a work meeting request—Notis creates the event and puts it in Work calendar

Questions about this workflow

How does Notis decide which calendar an event belongs in?

Notis reads the email content and looks for context clues: sender domain, client name, subject line, etc., to categorize correctly.

What if an event could belong in multiple calendars?

Notis asks you to clarify, ensuring nothing gets misfiled.

Can I customize the rules for which emails go where?

Yes—tell Notis 'all emails from @clientname.com go to Clients calendar' and it learns that pattern.

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Supported Triggers and Actions

Notis builds workflows that link Gmail to Google Calendar. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.

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Gmail triggers

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Google Calendar actions

Email Sent

Triggers when a Gmail message is sent by the authenticated user. It polls the 'SENT' label and emits metadata including sender, recipients, subject, timestamp, and thread ID.

TriggerPolling

Insert Calendar into List

Inserts an existing calendar into the user's calendar list.

ActionInstant

New Gmail Message Received Trigger

Triggers when a new message is received in Gmail.

TriggerPolling

Update Calendar List Entry

Updates an existing entry on the user\'s calendar list.

ActionInstant

Delete Calendar

Deletes a secondary calendar. use calendars.clear for clearing all events on primary calendars.

ActionInstant

Update Calendar

Updates metadata for a calendar.

ActionInstant

Clear Calendar

Clears a primary calendar. this operation deletes all events associated with the primary calendar of an account.

ActionInstant

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.

ActionInstant

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.

ActionInstant

Create a calendar

Creates a new, empty google calendar with the specified title (summary).

ActionInstant

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