I record a lot of voice notes. I brain-dump while I'm biking, hiking or running and frequently want a way to extract some gold from what I said. Or, I record a meeting, either in-person or online, but I can't stand having another "AI TRANSCRIBER" joining the meeting, so I just record on my phone. But after I record, sometimes these voice notes went forgotten about on my phone. My great ideas and notes dumped from my brain and forgotten about. My meeting just remembered, not systemized. So, I built this n8n workflow that I can use from my phone to transcribe and run through a LLM to pull out information, action-items, ideas, and send all of that to my email with the transcript. This saves me time, helps me be more organized, helps me close more sales and helps me make my clients happier. Thinking of having it pass the action items along to a manager agent to start delegating and executing on them. What do you use?

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I was spending too much money doing too many things with Zapier, Make.com and n8n. Every thing I run there, it's like I'm being nickle-and-dimed! Even when I want to test something. And when I want to run a bunch of data through, it gets expensive! I was looking for alternatives that I could run myself and learned that n8n has a community edition that I can run locally on my computer or deploy to the cloud. I spent like 15 minutes and got it running on my computer and could finally take a breath of relief! I could run as many workflows as I wanted and not worry about blowing through my quota or needing to buy more. I spent a but more time with it, deployed a couple n8n instances to small cloud servers for some clients who couldn't use a cloud n8n or other cloud automation tools because of data sensitivity, and I can really see this going far. Now, I know that I can just code something up and host it myself, that's probably even easier in some cases, but n8n offers a lot of great features out of the box. Visualization of workflows, a nice drag-and-drop interface that I can hand-off to clients, an API so I can manage and audit workflows easily. I tried a couple other alternatives as well, all self-hosted, and wrote about them here if you're interested: https://heyferrante.com/self-hosted-automation-tools-august-2025

When I started working with AI, specifically ChatGPT, I was writing my prompts off the top of my head each time. This was initially great, it was like chatting with someone who was super smart and tolerant. But, the more I used it, the more I found myself doing something really similar to something I'd previously done. Making a meal plan for the week, summarizing content in a specific way, rewriting some content into my brand's voice. I would go back and copy old prompts and replace some stuff, but it ended up with me just copying and pasting a lot. I didn't sign up for data entry. So, just like with code, you can have templates you'll use over and over, just filling in the blanks. Kinda like Mad Libs (am I dating myself?). I started putting these into Google Docs and finally I had a set of prompts I could use over and over easily. Then, I wanted to share them with people and make it even easier to fill in the blanks. So, I built PyroPrompts.com to make it easier to keep all my prompts. Eventually, I had things I was running each week. I have been automating things with code since like 2007, so I figured I should automate some AI. I added Workflows to PyroPrompts.com so it's super easy to automate a prompt, take the output, send it to another prompt and then take that output and send it via email to myself. BOOM! AI on Autopilot! Since then, I use PyroPrompts.com every single week, usually multiple times a week. It helps me create topical and timely ideas, weekly meal plans, aggregate and summarize the news and so much more. Thanks for joining the AI Automateur Alliance. If you're automating and using AI like I am, you might like PyroPrompts.com. Get an additional $5 worth of credits for free when you use the code AIAUTOMATEURSKOOL, https://pyroprompts.com/promo_code_redeem?code=AIAUTOMATEURSKOOL