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I'm currently trialing a 4 day work week for all staff at my company, and one of the major impacts on productivity is interruptions. As such, I opted to use N8N to create a workflow to monitor my Google Calendar and when an event starts, to update my Slack status with an emote and the title of the calendar task. Additionally I opted to include to change the colour of Philips Hue lamp located in my living room where my wife is currently working so she know's if she can interrupt me or not. My calendar is built on the theory behind the Diary Detox system and as such the Slack Status reflect the colours involved. This was achieved using the emote aliases for the relevant colour circles. The Philips Hue lamp status is changed via the local API with Home Assistant. This is a very similiar process to controlling it with something like the Streamdeck, but the workflow calls the Webhook instead of the Streamdeck. This process can be found in lots of Youtube videos such as this. This gives my wife a very quick and easy way to know if she can interrupt me in my office (when the lights are Green or Blue) or when I'm busy (Red). Please Note: The above images are not intended to be an incentive to create your own Squid Games. Additionally, when integrating Slack with N8N, there are 2 x APIs which can be used. Typically the Bot User OAuth Token is used, however in order for your Status to be updated, the User OAuth Token must be used with the users.profile:read and users.profile:write permissions enabled. For clarity, I have removed the Webhooks from the Workflow as this would allow any person to control my lights. These can be inserted in the HTTP Request nodes. Each node responds to a different automation within the Home Assistant infrastructure. Acknowledgement: I would also credit Jon (Discord) aka 8668 (Workflows) for writing the Function node which turns the ColorID into a named variable.

Who is this template for? This template is for everyone who has to take notes during a call: Talent Acquisition Managers / Talent Acquisition Specialists / Recruiters HR professionals Sales teams, customer success teams Product teams / User Experience Designers / anyone conducting user research interviews Use case This workflow allows specific events created on Google Calendar (or any other meeting scheduling tool like Calendly) to trigger the duplication and renaming of a specific template document. Example: For each new screening call that is scheduled in your calendar, you want to create a draft of your screening interview template for the role, titled "{Name of the candidate} | {Date of the interview}", and located in your Google Drive in a specific folder This workflow could then be extended to copy the link to the file on a Notion database that is shared with the team (check "To go further" section). This workflow ensures that if you're jumping from calls to calls, you're already set up to take notes, and every document is tidied up and sorted in a structured way! How it works The workflow starts when a new event is created in Google Calendar The Filter node then selects a specific type of events, depending on a chosen pattern (title includes a specific term, organizer is X, attendees include Y, etc.) The workflow then searches for a specific folder in your Google Drive, where the file you want to duplicate is located The workflow then searches for the specific file you want to duplicate The last step allows to duplicate and rename the file with variables from your Google Calendar event Set up Set up credentials for Google Calendar, Google Drive, and Google File. You'll need a Google Workspace account. Set up the Filter node with the pattern you want to look for to retreive specific events in your calendar Set up the Google Drive you want to search in Set up the Google File you want to duplicate Set up variable at the last step to rename your duplicated file however you want it, or add a description To go further Here's a few idea to enhance this workflow depending on your specific needs: Instead of a filter, separate your flow depending on your use case (ex: you have want to fetch different templates depending on the type of call it'll be). Switch Google Calendar for another trigger (Calendly, Hubspot..) 10 minutes before the event, send the duplicate Google File to the meeting organizer through Slack The day after the event, if the event hasn't been cancelled, add the link to the Google File to your ATS, Hubspot, etc.