5 Everyday Tasks You Can Automate with n8n

The best automations remove small, repetitive tasks that happen every day. Here are five practical workflows that beginners can build with n8n.

1. Lead capture: send every website enquiry to a spreadsheet or CRM, and notify your team by email or chat.

2. Daily reports: on a schedule, pull numbers from a database or sheet, format a short summary and email it every morning.

3. Email sorting: read incoming support emails, use an AI node to classify them, and route each one to the right person.

4. Content scheduling: take approved posts from a sheet and publish them at set times through each platform’s API.

5. File backups: copy new files from one storage service to another and keep a log of what was moved.

Start with one workflow, test it with sample data, and add error handling before you rely on it for real work.