About the project
I taught my inbox to do the chores.
FlowPack is 6 self-hosted n8n workflows — 25 nodes across 5 integrations — that quietly handle the admin around my day. Here's why it exists, how it came together, and the bit that nearly didn't.
The why
Automation, done well, is invisible. You don't notice the workflow — you notice that the thing you used to do by hand just… happened. That's the whole goal here: take the small, repetitive, slightly annoying parts of a morning and make them disappear.
It's also a love letter to a tool. n8n looks like a toy until you wire your first real thing through it; then it looks like a power tool. I wanted a tidy set of examples — mine, that I actually use — that someone could import and learn from in an afternoon.
How it came together
A short, honest timeline.
- Feb 2026
The morning-tab problem
It started as a complaint, not a project. Every morning began the same way: weather tab, jobs tab, calendar tab, GitHub tab. Ten minutes of context-loading before I'd done anything. I wanted that to arrive, not be fetched.
- Mar 2026
Scoping — one flow, end to end
Rather than design all six up front, I built the Morning Briefing properly: three parallel API calls, one Code node, one email. Getting one workflow truly clean told me what the other five should look like.
- Apr 2026
The pack takes shape
Job digest, calendar agenda, and the Telegram capture inbox landed in quick succession — they share the same trigger → fetch → deliver spine, so each was faster than the last.
- Late Apr 2026where it got hard
The part that broke everything
Two days lost to gremlins. RemoteOK sometimes returns its array double-wrapped, so my filter silently matched nothing. Google's OAuth redirect URI has to be character-perfect. And every date was an hour off until I pinned Asia/Kolkata in every single workflow. Unglamorous, and exactly the work that makes the difference.
- May 2026
Teaching it to think
Added the AI summarizer: a synchronous webhook that hands text to Claude and returns five bullets and an action item. Mirrors my day-job LLM work, shrunk to a single reusable endpoint.
- May–Jun 2026
Polish & this showcase
Real empty states, email HTML that survives Gmail, keyword tuning — then this site: live node graphs rendered straight from each workflow's JSON, so you can read the wiring instead of taking my word for it.
Key features
What makes it more than a folder of JSON.
Live node graphs
Every workflow renders its real n8n topology as SVG — laid out from the actual node positions and connections in the JSON. What you see is what imports.
Copy or download any workflow
Each card hands you the exact JSON. Drop it into n8n → Import from File, attach your own credentials, and it runs.
Three trigger styles
Cron schedules, an event-driven Telegram trigger, and an on-demand HTTP webhook — a small tour of how automations actually get kicked off.
A real AI endpoint
POST text, get a structured summary back from Claude — synchronously, with the API key safely in a credential.
Interesting decisions
The choices worth defending.
Defensive parsing over trust
RemoteOK's response shape isn't guaranteed, so the job digest normalizes it before filtering: if it arrives as a single array-wrapped item, unwrap it first. One line that turns a silent empty inbox into a reliable one.
Inline date math, no extra nodes
The GitHub digest computes 'seven days ago' right in the request URL using n8n's Luxon helpers. Fewer nodes, less to read, nothing to keep in sync.
Synchronous webhook for the AI flow
responseMode: responseNode means the caller waits for Claude and gets clean JSON back in the same request — so the summarizer behaves like an API, not a fire-and-forget job.
Empty states are handled, not ignored
The calendar agenda uses alwaysOutputData and a fallback line, so a day with no meetings still emails 'Enjoy the focus time' instead of failing quietly.
Tech stack
And why each one earned its place.
Want to build something — or collaborate?
Whether it's an automation, an LLM system, or something nobody's tried yet, I'm up for it.