Note Taking – Notis

Quick start: speak these

Send a voice note with your ideas.

Can you organize this into a coherent summary?

Can you challenge this idea? Please play devil's advocate.

Share a photo or a document and ask Notis to save it along with your notes

Notis captures your stream of consciousness and turns it into structured, organized notes.

Note taking workflow

1. Capture your thoughts

Send a voice note with your ideas — no structure needed:

I've been thinking about the future of AI in education... personalized learning paths... teachers as facilitators rather than lecturers...

Notis transcribes and understands the context.

2. Organize into coherent notes

Ask Notis to structure your thoughts:

Can you organize this into a coherent summary?

Turn this into a structured document.

Save this to my notes database.

Notis will:

Extract key themes

Create logical structure

Save to your Notion database with a link

3. Challenge your thinking

Use devil's advocate mode for deeper analysis:

Can you challenge this idea? Please play devil's advocate.

What are the counterarguments to this?

Poke holes in my reasoning.

Notis compiles a document that challenges your assumptions and presents alternative viewpoints.

4. Organize

Simply tell Notis how to organize your note:

Associate this with my work area.

Associate this with new help center project.

Set up your Notes database in Notion

The Notis Second Brain already contains a Notes database set up for you.

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You can easily make a Notes database or customize the one that comes with the template. Just make sure it has a title property and Notis will understand it should be used for note taking.

If you want Notis to save your original transcript, include a media property and add a description to the property like “Add here the audio and txt transcript whenever available.”

Recommended Integrations

Integration	What it enables	Examples
Notes Database	Store and organize your notes	Notion
CRM	Store your notes directly inside your CRM.	Hubspot, Pipedrive, Salesforce

Automations

Weekly Notes Digest (Patterns + Top of Mind)

Use this automation to generate a short, highly digestible recap of everything you captured during the week. It highlights recurring patterns, brings important ideas back top of mind, and surfaces open loops.

In the Notis portal, open the Automations tab and create a new scheduled automation.

Set the schedule to: Every Friday at 5:00 PM.

Paste and adapt this instruction:

# Goal
Create a short, highly digestible end-of-week digest of all my notes from the last 7 days.

The digest must surface
- Patterns and recurring themes
- Key insights worth keeping top of mind
- Decisions and commitments
- Open loops (questions, follow-ups, revisit later)

Input scope
- Include all notes created or updated in the last 7 days.
- If possible, prioritize notes that look important (longer notes, notes with action items, decisions, or repeated topics).

# Output format (follow exactly)

### 1) TL;DR (60 seconds)

- 5 bullets max.
- Each bullet must be specific and easy to remember.

### 2) This week’s patterns

List 3–7 patterns. For each pattern, include:

- Pattern name (short, punchy)
- What I kept circling back to (1–2 sentences)
- Evidence: reference the specific notes behind it (titles + links)

### 3) Key insights worth keeping top of mind

- 5–10 bullets.
- Each bullet must include why it matters.

### 4) Decisions and commitments I made

- Decision or commitment
- Date (if known)
- Note reference (title + link)

### 5) Open loops

- Questions I left unanswered
- Follow-ups I promised
- Ideas I said I would revisit

Each item must include the related note link.

### 6) Next week’s focus (suggested)

- 3 concrete focus items
- Each with a short rationale tied back to this week’s notes.

# Tone

- Write like a clear, sharp personal operating report.
- No fluff. No generic advice.
- Prefer short bullets and short paragraphs.

# Delivery

- Save the digest into my Notes system as a new entry titled: Weekly Notes Digest — YYYY-MM-DD
- Also send me the TL;DR + “This week’s patterns” section in the chat output.

Pro tips

Stream of consciousness: Don't worry about structure — that's Notis's job.

Multiple voice notes: Send several related notes, then ask Notis to combine them.

Devil's advocate: Use this for important decisions to stress-test your thinking.

Add instructions: Simply add all your instructions to Notis in the same voice note such as “decompose this into tasks”, “draft a new technical specs requirements based on this”, “create a voice note summary I can share”.