# Email-based book recommendations with Ollama LLM: n8n workflow

> Started by an arriving email, and works across Email. It hands the judgement calls to a local model.

Source: https://millionrounds.com/workflow/email-based-book-recommendations-with-ollama-llm (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article)

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# Email-based book recommendations with Ollama LLM

Started by an arriving email, and works across Email. It hands the judgement calls to a local model. 15 steps, 1 branch, 1 loop or waits: a working afternoon to understand properly.

Medium Calls a model: a local model

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**15 steps** Medium: a working afternoon

**1** Branch: places the flow splits

**1** Loop or waits

**1** Service it connects to

## The flow

Model 2 Logic 7 Service 6

The steps in the order they run, from what starts it.

- 1 **Ollama Model** Lm Chat Ollama *Model*
- 2 **Email Trigger – Book Request** Email Read Imap *Service*
- 3 **Analyze Email with Ollama** Agent *Model*
- 4 **Create Book Search Query** Set *Logic*
- 5 **Call Book Search API** Http Request *Service*
- 6 **Check API Response** If *Logic*
- 7 **Check Book Name** Code *Logic*
- 8 **Handle No Book Found** Email Send *Service*
- 9 **Extract Book Summary** Http Request *Service*
- 10 **Wait for Summary Response** Wait *Logic*
- 11 **Retrieve Book Details** Http Request *Service*
- 12 **Format Book Data** Set *Logic*
- 13 **Enhance Data with Code** Code *Logic*
- 14 **Generate Email Content** Set *Logic*
- 15 **Send Recommendation Email** Email Send *Service*

## How it's built

- **Starts on:** An arriving email
- **Steps:** 15, with 1 branch, 1 loop or waits
- **Size:** Medium: a working afternoon
- **Connects to:** Email
- **Model:** a local model

## Questions

What does it need to run?

An n8n account, plus your own Email account, and a key for a local model. You connect your own accounts after importing it; none are included.

What starts it?

It starts on an arriving email.

Does it use AI?

Yes. It calls a local model. Model calls are billed by the provider, not by n8n.

How long does it take to set up?

Plan an afternoon. 15 steps is enough that you should read each one before running it.

How do I import it?

Copy the workflow, open a new workflow in n8n and paste. The steps appear on the canvas, ready for your own accounts.

**Before you run it**

Nothing here has been tested by us. It is somebody's working automation, read and described from its own steps. Treat the connections it wants as a list of accounts it will touch, and read the 15 steps before you point it at anything that matters.

## Run it in n8n

- **Create your n8n account** Free to start. n8n is where the workflow runs. [Create an n8n account ↗](https://millionrounds.com/n8n)
- **Download the workflow** Free with a Millionrounds account. [Download free](https://millionrounds.com/login?next=%2Fapp%2Fworkflow%2Femail-based-book-recommendations-with-ollama-llm)
- **Paste it into n8n** Open a new workflow in n8n and paste. Then connect your own accounts.

Stored with the author's traces removed: canvas notes, instance identifiers, saved credential names and any live document they had left behind.

## Connects to

Each opens the other workflows that use it.

[Email](https://millionrounds.com/workflows?service=Email#library)

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Also ai assistants, with the same services where possible, closest in size first.

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