Daily Newsletter Service using Excel, Outlook and AI

n8n template #3446

Summary

This n8n template builds a newsletter ("daily digest") delivery service which pulls and summarises the latest n8n.io template in select categories defined by subscribers. It's scheduled to run once a day and sends the newsletter directly to subscriber via a nicely formatted email. If you've had trouble keeping up with the latest and greatest templates beign published daily, this workflow can save you a lot of time! How it works A scheduled trigger pulls a list of subscribers (email and category preferences) from an Excel workbook. We work out unique categories amongst all subscribers and only fetch the latest n8n website templates from these categories to save on resources and optimise the n

How to set it up

Open template #3446 on n8n.io and click Use for free, or copy the template JSON and paste it onto an empty canvas in n8n.
Create 3 credentials under Credentials → Add credential: Microsoft Excel 365, Microsoft Outlook, OpenAI Chat Model. Then open each of those nodes and pick the credential.
Check the model in the OpenAI Chat Model node. The template may point at a model your account can't use; swap it for one you have access to.
Click Execute workflow and step through each node's output to confirm the data looks right.
Toggle the workflow to Active so its trigger runs on its own.

Hand off to your agent

Prompt

Help me set up the n8n workflow "Daily Newsletter Service using Excel, Outlook and AI" (https://n8n.io/workflows/3446). It uses: HTTP Request, Microsoft Excel 365, Microsoft Outlook, HTML, Basic LLM Chain, OpenAI Chat Model. Import the template JSON into my n8n instance, list every credential I need to create, and walk me through testing it.

Paste into Claude Code and it will do the rest.

Apps and nodes

HTTP RequestMicrosoft Excel 365Microsoft Outlook HTML Basic LLM Chain OpenAI Chat Model

Questions

Yes. Jimleuk published it free on n8n.io as a verified creator, and it has 9,576 views. It runs on n8n Cloud or a self-hosted n8n instance.

Microsoft Excel 365, Microsoft Outlook, OpenAI Chat Model. The other 3 nodes are built into n8n.

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