Get instant context about who's emailing you
When an important email arrives, Notis looks up the sender in your Slack workspace and posts their profile, so your team has immediate context without digging.
Trigger
New Gmail Message Received Trigger
Triggers when a new message is received in Gmail.
Action
Find users
Find users in a slack workspace by any criteria - email, name, display name, or other text. includes optimized email lookup for exact email matches.
Why this helps
Founders and teams receive emails from people they may not immediately recognize, losing time searching for context or digging through Slack history.
- Eliminate the 'Who is this person?' confusion by surfacing sender info instantly
- Give your team immediate context so they can respond knowledgeably without asking around
- Reduce time wasted on searching for past interactions with senders
- Onboard new team members faster by automatically providing context on incoming emails
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Gmail and Slack to Notis.
- 2Create an automation: ask Notis 'When I receive an email, look up the sender in Slack and post their profile' or use the portal.
- 3Describe the outcome: 'Post the sender's name, role, department, and Slack profile link to #email-context.'
- 4Select the trigger: New Gmail Message Received.
- 5Choose a Slack channel for run reports.
- 6Test by sending yourself an email from a colleague and verify their profile appears in the designated channel.
Questions about this workflow
What if the sender isn't in our Slack workspace?
Notis will note that the sender is external. You can refine your prompt to only post info for internal senders, or to post external sender details from Gmail instead.
Can I control which senders get looked up?
Yes. Specify in your prompt which emails trigger the lookup (e.g., 'only external senders' or 'only from acme-corp.com').
Does this respect privacy?
Notis only retrieves information that's already in your Slack workspace and doesn't expose private data. You control which profile fields are posted.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Gmail to Slack. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Gmail triggers
Slack actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Set snooze duration
Deprecated: turns on do not disturb mode for the current user, or changes its duration. use `set dnd duration` instead.
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Add a custom emoji to a Slack team
Deprecated: adds a custom emoji to a slack workspace given a unique name and an image url. use `add emoji` instead.
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.
Add an emoji alias
Adds an alias for an existing custom emoji in a slack enterprise grid organization.
New Gmail Message Received Trigger
Triggers when a new message is received in Gmail.
Add a remote file
Adds a reference to an external file (e.g., google drive, dropbox) to slack for discovery and sharing, requiring a unique `external id` and an `external url` accessible by slack.
Add a star to an item
Stars a channel, file, file comment, or a specific message in slack.
Add call participants
Registers new participants added to a slack call.
Add emoji
Adds a custom emoji to a slack workspace given a unique name and an image url; subject to workspace emoji limits.
Add reaction to message
Adds a specified emoji reaction to an existing message in a slack channel, identified by its timestamp; does not remove or retrieve reactions.
Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Gmail and Slack, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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