Just curious what people are using n8n for.

I just finished setting up a workflow that sends me a Telegram message every night about photography opportunities for the next day. It puts together weather data, POIs (which I defined for my location), sun/moon position, milky way visibility, cloud cover, etc. The message then simply tells me if it’s worth it going out in the morning.

  • dalekirkwood@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Tons of things 😊

    • Built quite a few personal agents, long before OpenClaw or whatever that is
    • Automated Social Media Images
    • Set up a bot on Manifold Markets
    • Created entire processes in our company using it for Sales, Marketing and Customer Support
    • Automatically update the CRM using Macrodroid and n8n
    • tons of other playing around.

    One of the most amazing pieces of software I’ve ever used.

    • sixty@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Can you elaborate on the agents? How do you handle persistant memory, what triggers them? What are they for? ☺️

      • dalekirkwood@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        n8n offers some cool agent features out of the box.

        Like, if I talk about my personal agent is connected to Telegram, it can access my emails, my calendar, it can do web searches, deep research, it can access a NocoDB instance. etc. It also records a journal, any food diaries, it can take handwritten notes and convert them to text and store in my obsidian vault.

        For memory, I use the standard one from n8n but for long term memory, I use NocoDB or some vector storage (I forget the name).

        Honestly, it’s very easy to get started and play around with, so I recommend just setting up an agent and just having a go.