I was trying to use the AI in Google Docs to work on some Project Briefs. But, from using AI while coding, I knew I could be more productive if I just modified local markdown files. I can see real diffs. I can make more sweeping changes using opencode or codex or claude code. I can create and use templates, refer to other files easily, even use MCP to tie in other data or actions. But, I need to send people documents, and they kinda expect it to be a Google Doc. So, I keep a couple git repos of markdown files and use AI to modify them, do frequent commits to git and then when I want to publish, I just send the file contents to this n8n webhook and it converts it into a Google Doc. I know that Google Doc has a way to import markdown files, but this lets me do the whole process right from my computer. What should happen after this point? Automatic emailing of the file to the client with some context?

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

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?