Add product ideas to Notion via a Slack command

Published 9 months ago

Created by

Niklas Hatje

Template description

Use Case

In most companies, employees have a lot of great ideas. That was the same for us at n8n. We wanted to make it as easy as possible to allow everyone to add their ideas to some formatted database - it should be somewhere where everyone is all the time and could add a new idea without much extra effort. Since we're using Slack, this seemed to be the perfect place to easily add ideas and collect them in Notion.

What this workflow does

This workflow waits for a webhook call within Slack, that gets fired when users use the /idea command on a bot that you will create as part of this template. It then checks the command, adds the idea to Notion, and notifies the user about the newly added idea as you can see below:

image 16.png

Creating your Slack bot

Visit https://api.slack.com/apps, click on New App and choose a name and workspace.
Click on OAuth & Permissions and scroll down to Scopes -> Bot token Scopes
Add the chat:write scope
Head over to Slash Commands and click on Create New Command
Use /idea as the command
Copy the test URL from the Webhook node into Request URL
Add whatever feels best to the description and usage hint
Go to Install app and click install

Setup

Add a Database in Notion with the columns Name and Creator
Add your Notion credentials and add the integration to your Notion page.
Fill the setup node below
Create your Slack app (see other sticky)
Click Test workflow and use the /idea comment in Slack
Activate the workflow and exchange the Request URL with the production URL from the webhook

How to adjust it to your needs

You can adjust the table in Notion and for example, add different types of ideas or areas that they impact
You might wanna add different templates in Notion to make it easier for users to fill their ideas with details
Rename the Slack command as it works best for you

How to enhance this workflow

At n8n we use this workflow in combination with some others. E.g. we have the following things on top:

We additionally have a /bug Slack command that adds a new bug to Linear. Here we're using AI to classify the bugs and move it to the right team. (see this template and this template)
We also added other types, like /pain to be less solution-driven
To make it easier for everyone to give input, we added a Votes column that allows everyone to vote on ideas/pain points in the list
We're also running a workflow once a week that highlights the most popular new ideas and the most active voters (see here)

Share Template

More Product workflow templates

🚀 Boost your customer service with this WhatsApp Business bot!

This n8n workflow demonstrates how to automate customer interactions and appointment management via WhatsApp Business bot. After submitting a Google Form, the user receives a notification via WhatsApp. These notifications are sent via a template message. In case user sends a message to the bot, the text and user data is stored in Google Sheets. To reply back to the user, fill in the ReplyText column and change the Status to 'Ready'. In a few seconds n8n will fetch the unsent replies and deliver them one by one via WhatsApp Business node. Customize this workflow to fit your specific needs, connect different online services and enhance your customer communication! 🎉 Setup Instructions To get this workflow up and running, you'll need to: 👇 Create a WhatsApp template message on the Meta Business portal. Obtain an Access Token and WhatsApp Business Account ID from the Meta Developers Portal. This is needed for the WhatsApp Business Node to send messages. Set up a WhatsApp Trigger node with App ID and App Secret from the Meta Developers Portal. Right after that copy the WhatsApp Trigger URL and add it as a Callback URL in the Meta Developers Portal. This trigger is needed to receive incoming messages and their status updates. Connect your Google Sheets account for data storage and management. Check out the documentation page. ⚠️ Important Notes WhatsApp allows automatic custom text messages only within 24 hours of the last user message. Outside with time frame only approved template messages can be sent. The workflow uses a Google Sheet to manage form submissions, incoming messages and prepare responses. You can replace these nodes and connect the WhatsApp bot with other systems.

Eduard

Actioning Your Meeting Next Steps using Transcripts and AI

This n8n workflow demonstrates how you can summarise and automate post-meeting actions from video transcripts fed into an AI Agent. Save time between meetings by allowing AI handle the chores of organising follow-up meetings and invites. How it works This workflow scans for the calendar for client or team meetings which were held online. * Attempts will be made to fetch any recorded transcripts which are then sent to the AI agent. The AI agent summarises and identifies if any follow-on meetings are required. If found, the Agent will use its Calendar Tool to to create the event for the time, date and place for the next meeting as well as add known attendees. Requirements Google Calendar and the ability to fetch Meeting Transcripts (There is a special OAuth permission for this action!) OpenAI account for access to the LLM. Customising the workflow This example only books follow-on meetings but could be extended to generate reports or send emails.

Jimleuk

Notion AI Assistant Generator

This n8n workflow template lets teams easily generate a custom AI chat assistant based on the schema of any Notion database. Simply provide the Notion database URL, and the workflow downloads the schema and creates a tailored AI assistant designed to interact with that specific database structure. Set Up Watch this quick set up video 👇 Key Features Instant Assistant Generation**: Enter a Notion database URL, and the workflow produces an AI assistant configured to the database schema. Advanced Querying**: The assistant performs flexible queries, filtering records by multiple fields (e.g., tags, names). It can also search inside Notion pages to pull relevant content from specific blocks. Schema Awareness**: Understands and interacts with various Notion column types like text, dates, and tags for accurate responses. Reference Links**: Each query returns direct links to the exact Notion pages that inform the assistant’s response, promoting transparency and easy access. Self-Validation**: The workflow has logic to check the generated assistant, and if any errors are detected, it reruns the agent to fix them. Ideal for Product Managers**: Easily access and query product data across Notion databases. Support Teams**: Quickly search through knowledge bases for precise information to enhance support accuracy. Operations Teams**: Streamline access to HR, finance, or logistics data for fast, efficient retrieval. Data Teams**: Automate large dataset queries across multiple properties and records. How It Works This AI assistant leverages two HTTP request tools—one for querying the Notion database and another for retrieving data within individual pages. It’s powered by the Anthropic LLM (or can be swapped for GPT-4) and always provides reference links for added transparency.

Max Tkacz

Generate SEO Seed Keywords Using AI

What this workflow does: This flow uses an AI node to generate Seed Keywords to focus SEO efforts on based on your ideal customer profile. You can use these keywords to form part of your SEO strategy. Outputs: List of 20 Seed Keywords Setup Fill the Set Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) Connect with your credentials Replace the Connect to your own database with your own database Pre-requisites / Dependencies You know your ideal customer profile (ICP) An AI API account (either OpenAI or Anthropic recommended) Made by Simon @ automake.io

simonscrapes

Automate Image Validation Tasks using AI Vision

This n8n workflow shows how using multimodal LLMs with AI vision can tackle tricky image validation tasks which are near impossible to achieve with code and often impractical to be done by humans at scale. You may need image validation when users submitted photos or images are required to meet certain criteria before being accepted. A wine review website may require users only submit photos of wine with labels, a bank may require account holders to submit scanned documents for verification etc. In this demonstration, our scenario will be to analyse a set of portraits to verify if they meet the criteria for valid passport photos according to the UK government website (https://www.gov.uk/photos-for-passports). How it works Our set of portaits are jpg files downloaded from our Google Drive using the Google Drive node. Each image is resized using the Edit Image node to ensure a balance between resolution and processing speed. Using the Basic LLM node, we'll define a "user message" option with the type of binary (data). This will allow us to pass our portrait to the LLM as an input. With our prompt containing the criteria pulled off the passport photo requirements webpage, the LLM is able to validate the photo does or doesn't meet its criteria. A structured output parser is used to structure the LLM's response to a JSON object which has the "is_valid" boolean property. This can be useful to further extend the workflow. Requirements Google Gemini API key Google Drive account Customising this workflow Not using Gemini? n8n's LLM node works with any compatible multimodal LLM so feel free to swap Gemini out for OpenAI's GPT4o or Antrophic's Claude Sonnet. Don't need to validate portraits? Try other use cases such as document classification, security footage analysis, people tagging in photos and more.