🛠 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 you@yourcompany.com).

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.