Automate Excuse Generation and Email Responses
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This n8n workflow automates the generation of witty excuses based on an Excel spreadsheet. It then uses these excuses to craft personalized email responses to specific senders, ensuring no one is left without a creative alibi.
About This Workflow
This powerful n8n workflow is designed to streamline your email management and proactive excuse generation. It begins by monitoring your inbox for emails, specifically checking if an email originates from Louis Litt. If it does, the workflow springs into action by reading a local Excel file containing a treasure trove of excuses. It then randomly combines elements from this file to create a unique, contextually relevant excuse. This generated excuse, along with the original email's data, is merged and used to automatically reply to the sender. For any other sender, a general notification is sent to Slack. This automation is perfect for anyone who needs to playfully deflect or needs a quick, creative response.
Key Features
- Smart Email Monitoring: Automatically fetches emails and identifies specific senders.
- Dynamic Excuse Generation: Creates unique and humorous excuses from a customizable spreadsheet.
- Automated Email Replies: Crafts and sends personalized email responses with generated excuses.
- Slack Notifications: Keeps you informed with Slack alerts for general emails and specific sender interactions.
- Customizable Excuse Data: Easily update the
/home/n8n/Excuse_Generator.xlsxfile with your preferred excuses.
How To Use
- Configure Email Reading: Set up the 'Read Harvey's Email' node with your IMAP credentials to access your inbox.
- Sender Identification: Adjust the 'Who Is The Email From?' switch node to specify the sender(s) you want to trigger the excuse generation.
- Prepare Excuse Data: Create an Excel file (
Excuse_Generator.xlsx) in/home/n8n/with columns like 'Leadin', 'Perpetrator', and 'Delay' containing excuse components. - Set Up Excuse Generation: Ensure the 'Read Excuses File' and 'Retrieve Excuses Spreadsheet Data' nodes are correctly pointing to your excuse spreadsheet.
- Customize Response: Modify the 'Generate Excuse' function code if you wish to alter the excuse generation logic or the structure of the output.
- Configure Email Sending: In the 'Send Email' node, update the 'toEmail', 'fromEmail', 'subject', and 'text' fields using the merged data, ensuring your SMTP credentials are also correctly configured.
- Set Up Slack Notifications: Configure the 'Slack (Louis)' and 'Slack (General)' nodes with your Slack API token and desired channel/message content.
Apps Used
Workflow JSON
{
"id": "907a0fd5-00d5-496d-a7a9-0435d054e478",
"name": "Automate Excuse Generation and Email Responses",
"nodes": 9,
"category": "Operations",
"status": "active",
"version": "1.0.0"
}Note: This is a sample preview. The full workflow JSON contains node configurations, credentials placeholders, and execution logic.
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