Subscribe to Google Docs changes

[philschatz]

Google Docs is great at keeping the state of an idea but it is not great at letting people subscribe to changes.

staxly could monitor changes to files (or Folders) and then notify Slack users either in a channel or via DM.

With this, whenever a GDoc is linked to a Slack channel and the GDoc is updated, a message can be posted in the channel... Something like:

Philip Schatz updated "Designs for the Hyperdrive" Click to see these recent changes: https://docs.google.com/abgh10dhskd/changes

Slack Message types

• The bot could notice that you included a GDoc link and ask you if you want to subscribe to changes
• Type staxly subscribe ${google_docs_url} to be notified in this channel or (or DM) when a GDoc has been updated
• Type staxly subscriptions to list all the docs you are subscribed to
  • these would have the format: [Unsubscribe] {last_modified} {truncated(title)} {modified_by} {link}

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Notes

• API for Google Drive Polling Notifications
• API for Google Drive Push Notifications (Requires public callback URL)