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Are you doing anything cool with n8n? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 months ago by carton_of_lions@sh.itjust.works to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] sixty@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] dalekirkwood@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months 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.