Coming Soon: Personal Productivity Automations with n8n
An evolving system of daily use automations built using n8n from digest emails and reminders to project syncs and data pipelines. Designed to simplify your digital life and eliminate repetitive tasks.
Chennai, India
Q3 2025
Workflow Automation, Productivity, APIs
Personal Infrastructure
Challenge
As a student managing projects, learning, college, outreach, and side development, context switching and repetitive digital tasks were eating up valuable time. Managing GitHub updates, checking Reddit for news, creating LinkedIn ready content, and syncing notes became a manual effort. The goal is to build an automated workflow hub using n8n that acts like a personal assistant handling routine tasks while you focus on the actual work.
Results
Automation Flows: 10+ personalized pipelines
External Tools Integrated: GitHub, Gmail, Notion, Telegram, Reddit
Trigger Modes: Scheduled + event-based
User Experience Goal: 80% reduction in recurring tasks
10+
Daily Workflow Runs
4+ Hrs
Time Saved Weekly
7+
External APIs Used
Process
This project starts with identifying high friction, low creativity digital tasks: daily news checks, syncing GitHub updates, automating backup of form responses, and reminding about academic tasks. Using n8n’s visual workflow builder, each of these routines is being built into modular workflows.
For example, a Reddit → Email digest bot fetches top posts every morning from subreddits like r/artificial, formats them using markdown, and sends them to my inbox. Another workflow listens for GitHub commits and sends notifications via Telegram. A Notion sync flow ensures my task board reflects form responses, email triggers, or external changes.
Over time, these flows will be documented, version controlled, and made public as a reproducible automation kit for other students and developers.
Conclusion
This “Personal Workflow OS” is a constantly evolving project where automation meets daily life. By centralizing repetitive workflows inside n8n, the system brings structure, saves time, and gives back mental bandwidth. It’s one of the most scalable, modular personal projects I’ve embarked on—and it’s just getting started.