Create Linear Research Issues from Email Findings
Stop burying research in email. Notis converts your research emails into organized Linear issues so findings are searchable and shareable with your team.
Trigger
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.
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
You gather market research, competitor analysis, or user insights via email, but they're scattered. When you need to reference a finding, you're searching through months of emails.
- Creates searchable research archive in Linear
- Team can reference findings without email archaeology
- Reduces duplicate research by centralizing findings
- Keeps research organized by category or source
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Gmail and Linear to Notis.
- 2Create an automation: 'When I send a research or analysis email, create a Linear issue in my Research project with the findings categorized by topic.'
- 3Select 'Email Sent' as your trigger.
- 4Mark research emails with [RESEARCH] to help Notis identify them.
- 5Test by sending a marked research email and verify it appears in Linear with searchable content.
Questions about this workflow
Can I tag research by source or type?
Yes. Your automation can add labels like [Market Research], [Competitor Analysis], or [User Insights] based on email keywords or senders.
How long should research emails be?
Any length works. Notis can extract summaries for the issue title and keep full notes in the description for detailed reference.
Can external research I forward also be tracked?
Yes. Forward research with a [RESEARCH] marker and it's captured the same way as original findings.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Gmail to Linear. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Gmail triggers
Linear 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.
Create linear attachment
Creates a new attachment and associates it with a specific, existing linear issue.
New Gmail Message Received Trigger
Triggers when a new message is received in Gmail.
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 Gmail and Linear. Any combination from 985+ integrations.
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