AI-powered calendar & meeting digest with Gmail and GPT-4o/Claude - daily brief
# 🛠 How It Works
The Daily Calendar Brief is an automated n8n workflow designed to prep you each morning with a rich, executive-style email summary of your day. It pulls data from your calendar, email, and external contact sources to deliver a contextualized, prioritized briefing.
1. Daily Trigger
Runs every weekday morning at 7:00 AM using a schedule node.
2. Calendar Parsing
Grabs all Google Calendar events for the day and extracts details like:
• Event title, time, and duration
• Full attendee list
• Meeting description
3. Attendee Intelligence
Filters for external attendees and:
• Scrapes recent email threads with them
• Uses Hunter and LinkedIn to enrich attendee info with roles, bios, locations, and recent activity
4. Brief Assembly
Combines:
• Event metadata
• Attendee research
• Recent conversations
5. Email Delivery
Renders the Markdown as HTML and sends a polished email to your inbox with:
• Meeting timeline & attendees
• Key takeaways & extra context
• Conflicts & FYIs
# Setup Steps
Prerequisites
• n8n instance (self-hosted or cloud)
• Google Calendar and Gmail OAuth credentials
• OpenRouter key (for GPT-4o or Claude 3.7)
Configuration
1. Authorize Credentials
• Connect Google Calendar and Gmail nodes with OAuth2
• Set up OpenRouter credentials for AI processing
2. Set Your Email
Update the Send Email node with your preferred destination address (default is [email protected]).
3. Set Your Domain Filter
In the “Identify External Attendees” node, adjust the filter value yourcompany.com to your actual domain.
4. Customize Prompts (Optional)
You can fine-tune tone, formatting, or limits in the two language model nodes:
• Research and Develop Brief (attendee context + email summary)
• Summarize Schedule (overall Markdown brief formatting)
5. Activate Workflow
Enable the workflow and test it manually once to validate your setup. Confirm that the email lands correctly.
