I just finished n8n official text course level one, but I don’t have ideas for basic workflows. ChatGPT recommends workflow ideas that are challenging to implement. The same can be said about the n8n blog and YouTube. Do you guys have a list of basic workflow ideas?
Hey @jurabek-abd hope all is good. Welcome to the community!
If you’ve just finished the Level 1 course, the best next step is to pick something you’ll actually enjoy building. n8n is a lot easier to learn when you’re automating something you care about, whether it’s a personal task, a hobby project, or a small improvement at work.
That being said, a few thoughts come to mind, if you really want to work on just “some” ideas instead of fun ones:
“Personal” automations:
- Daily weather update
- RSS feed to email
- Form to spreadsheet
- File re-namer
- Email attachment saver
- Basic reminder bot
- Birthday reminders
- Quote of the day
- Expense logger
- Water break reminder
- Random recipe finder
- Meme fetcher
- Today in history
- Music discovery bot
- Photo of the day
“Work” automations:
- Support ticket logging
- Simple lead capture
- Weekly report generator
- Meeting agenda builder
If any of these look complicated - you are thinking of it the wrong way - any complicated task is nothing but a set of a few (sometime quite a few) simple tasks. Just break it down, ask GPT for step by step implementation plan, come here to the forum and chat to the wonderful people who is ready to help (just make sure you have a concrete and properly formulated question (follow the “I TRY - I DO - I EXPECT - I GET” formula when asking), along with some visuals and your shared workflow).
I am sure you will get really good at this in no time.
Cheers!
You can start with something simple like saving emails to Google Sheets, sending yourself reminders via Telegram/WhatsApp, or auto-uploading files from Dropbox to Google Drive. Easy to set up and great for practicing basic nodes and triggers.
Thank you! I just built my very first workflow myself. It gets 20 latest blogs → loops over items → checks if they exist in airtable database → if not, sends to discord and saves to airtable → if yes, it skips the item and moves on to the next item → after full loop, it sends a discord message: That’s all!
Although there is a problem with it, I guess I will try to find help from here because I have no idea why it work it has a bug. It is sending one spefic item over and over again each time I run workflow, even if it is saved in airtable. I don’t understand why. It is one specific item.