Beginner Question: Creating a Blog Workflow

Help me Build my Workflow
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I’m looking to build a workflow around writing a blog article.

I’ve setup a form that captures information needed before sending it to Perplexity for research and writing the first draft. I would then like other tools to make modifications to the draft, for e.g. inserting research, adding a table of contents, etc.

This is probably a silly question, but do I ‘send’ the Perplexity output somewhere so it can be edited by other tools, i.e. to a Google Doc? Is there any ‘best practice’ around this? Basically does the draft need to be stored somewhere so it can be referenced and edited by other AI Agents or tools.

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Hey @retrovertigo hope all is well. Welcome to the community.

I don’t believe there is “the” best practice about this, and it very much depends on the blog. Some blogs allow creating drafts within the platform (for instance, when you create a post on wordpress, you can create it with the status of “draft”). So it is really up to you how you wanna go about it.

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Thanks so much Jabbson. I was thinking along the lines of, if i need to use other tools to further craft the draft that Perplexity has written, how would I do this in N8N before publishing to Wordpress as the last step. Basically, what’s the best way to have N8N reference a draft, or 1st version of text created by Perplexity.

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If I was trying to do that, I would probably go one of three ways -

  • i’d keep the draft in the destination platform as draft (as I mentioned some plarforms allow storing and retrieving drafts)
  • I’d store the draft in Google Docs
  • I’d store the draft in Notion (I personally used Notion a long time ago and am not up to date with what service has to offer, but I see a lot of users mention it, so it must be all right).

You can also store the draft in the database of your choice, as the blog post (or draft) can be easily represented by a number of well defined fields - title, body, keywords, etc.

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Thanks so much Jabbson, that makes a lot of sense and I appreciate your help.

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You are very welcome, if that was helpful, mark as solution, if you have more question, please let me know.

Cheers.