Engineering and IT automations
Draft the release notes from what shipped
Reads everything Jira moved to Done in the last week and files a draft set of release notes in Notion.
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Free, and no card. It runs for real, five times.
What it does on a run
- 1Get what was finished this week
- 2Write it for the reader, not the tracker
- 3File the draft for someone to edit and publish
When it runs
Every Thursday at 5pm. You can change the schedule in plain words after you start it.
What it needs
JiraNotionConnected once, then reused by every automation that needs them.
Where it stops
It halts before the irreversible part and shows you what it is about to do. You see the message, the recipient and the data it read, and nothing is sent until you say so. Once you trust it, you can tell it to stop asking.
Free, and no card. It runs for real, five times.
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