Block Your Focus Time Instantly When Critical Issues Arrive
Neurodivergent founders often get derailed by new urgent tasks. This workflow creates a reminder and protects your focus time automatically whenever a critical Jira issue lands.
Trigger
New Issue
Fires when a new issue is created in the Jira project you configure. Only issues created in that project produce an event.
Action
Create a reminder
Creates a slack reminder with specified text and time; time accepts unix timestamps, seconds from now, or natural language (e.g., 'in 15 minutes', 'every thursday at 2pm').
Why this helps
New urgent issues constantly interrupt your flow. By the time you see them in Jira, you've already lost your context window and momentum.
- Set a reminder to handle the urgent issue at a designated time instead of dropping everything
- Reduce the cognitive load of context-switching by batching interruptions
- Maintain focus on your current work without losing track of incoming urgencies
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect your Jira and Slack workspaces to Notis (one-time setup in the portal).
- 2Create a new automation in the Notis portal with the prompt: 'When a critical issue is created in Jira, create a Slack reminder for me in 2 hours to review it.'
- 3Select 'New Issue' as the trigger and choose your primary work channel for automation reports.
- 4Test with a real critical issue in your Jira project.
- 5Adjust the reminder delay to match your actual focus-time windows.
Questions about this workflow
How does Notis know if an issue is 'critical'?
You define criticality in the automation prompt (e.g., 'issues with priority High or Blocker'). Notis uses the Jira API to check priority fields.
Can I customize the reminder time?
Yes. Simply update the automation prompt with your preferred delay (in 15 minutes, in 1 hour, tomorrow at 9am, etc.).
What if I'm already in do-not-disturb mode?
The reminder still creates; Slack queues it until you end your DND session.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Jira to Slack. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Jira triggers
Slack actions
New Issue
Fires when a new issue is created in the Jira project you configure. Only issues created in that project produce an event.
Set snooze duration
Deprecated: turns on do not disturb mode for the current user, or changes its duration. use `set dnd duration` instead.
New Project
Triggered when a new project is added in Jira
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.
Updated Issue
Fires when an existing issue is changed in the Jira project you configure — for example its status, assignee, or any other field on the issue is updated. Only issues in that project produce an event. It does not fire on comment activity: adding, editing, or deleting a comment on an issue will not produce an event from this trigger.
Add an emoji alias
Adds an alias for an existing custom emoji in a slack enterprise grid organization.
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.
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