Automation library · Alerts and monitoring

Nathan: Your n8n personal assistant with Slack

Started by an arriving email, and works across Email and Slack. 9 steps, 1 branch: a working afternoon to understand properly.

Medium

9 stepsMedium: a working afternoon
1Branch: places the flow splits
0Loops or waits
2Services it connects to

The flow

Logic 3Service 6

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

  1. 1Read Harvey's EmailEmail Read ImapService
  2. 2Who Is The Email From?SwitchLogic
  3. 3Read Excuses FileRead Binary FileService
  4. 4Merge Excuse and Mail DataMergeLogic
  5. 5Slack (General)SlackService
  6. 6Retrieve Excuses Spreadsheet DataSpreadsheet FileService
  7. 7Send EmailEmail SendService
  8. 8Slack (Louis)SlackService
  9. 9Generate ExcuseFunctionLogic

How it's built

Starts on
An arriving email
Steps
9, with 1 branch
Size
Medium: a working afternoon
Connects to
Email, Slack
Model
None. This is plumbing, not judgement

Questions

What does it need to run?

An n8n account, plus your own Email and Slack accounts. You connect your own accounts after importing it; none are included.

What starts it?

It starts on an arriving email.

Does it use AI?

No. Every step is fixed logic or a call to a service, so it does the same thing every time.

How long does it take to set up?

Plan an afternoon. 9 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 9 steps before you point it at anything that matters.