The Scenario
You are a release manager. You have a Google Sheet with 30 feature launch dates and labels from the past quarter. Every chart in your Amplitude workspace should show these as annotations so the analytics team can see at a glance which spikes or drops correlate with which releases.
Right now, none of them do. The annotations do not exist. Adding them one by one in Amplitude's annotation UI takes about two minutes each.
That is an hour of clicking. For annotations that should have existed the day each feature shipped.
The slow version:
- Open Amplitude, navigate to the chart where you want annotations
- Click Add Annotation, fill in the date, fill in the label, save
- Repeat for the next chart (annotations are global, so you only do this once per entry — but you still have to do it 30 times)
- An hour later, the workspace is annotated. One quarter late.
The fast version is one prompt.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI connects to Amplitude's annotation API and can create all 30 annotations from your sheet in one go — no clicking through the Amplitude UI.
Open the SheetXAI sidebar and type:
Read the release dates in column A and release names in column B (rows 2–31) and create an Amplitude chart annotation for each one.
SheetXAI iterates through the 30 rows, calls the Amplitude Annotations API for each entry, and creates the annotations. Every chart in your workspace now shows the release history.
What You Get
30 Amplitude chart annotations, one per row in your sheet, each with:
- Date — pulled from column A, formatted to match Amplitude's expected input
- Label — pulled from column B, written exactly as it appears in the sheet
The annotations are global across your workspace. Every chart that includes the annotated dates now shows the release label. The analytics team sees the spike on March 12 next to the label "v4.2 pricing page redesign" without having to ask you what happened that week.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Release log sheets are rarely in perfect annotation-ready shape. SheetXAI handles the cleanup and the API calls in the same prompt.
When the date format in the sheet is inconsistent
Some rows have dates formatted as MM/DD/YYYY, others as Month DD, YYYY, and a few as plain numbers from an Excel-style date format.
Read release dates in column A and release names in column B (rows 2–31). Normalize all dates in column A to YYYY-MM-DD format before sending to Amplitude. Create a chart annotation in Amplitude for each row using the normalized date and the label from column B.
When some rows have blank or placeholder names
A few rows in column B say "TBD" or are empty because the feature shipped but was never named properly.
Read release dates in column A and release names in column B (rows 2–31). Skip any row where column B is blank or contains "TBD". Create Amplitude chart annotations for the remaining rows. Write "SKIPPED" into column C for any row that was excluded.
When you want to annotate a specific Amplitude chart rather than all charts
The workspace has dozens of charts, but this release log only applies to the revenue dashboard.
Create Amplitude annotations from my 'Q1 Launches' sheet using the date in column C and the description in column D. Apply the annotations only to the chart ID in cell F1. Write the returned annotation IDs back into column E.
When you need to create annotations, log the returned IDs, and flag any failures all in one pass
You want a full record of what was created so you can audit or delete annotations later.
Read release dates in column A and release names in column B (rows 2–31). Create an Amplitude chart annotation for each row. Write the returned Amplitude annotation ID into column C. If any annotation creation fails, write "FAILED — [error reason]" in column C for that row instead.
The pattern: instead of clicking through the Amplitude UI 30 times, you write the sheet once and create all the annotations in one prompt. The log in column C becomes your audit trail.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any Google Sheet with a release log or event list, then ask it to bulk-create Amplitude chart annotations from the rows. The Amplitude integration is included in every plan. For related workflows, see how to pull event segmentation data for trend analysis or the Amplitude in Google Sheets overview.