Personalized AI Tech Newsletter Using RSS, OpenAI and Gmail

n8n template #3986

Summary

Combine Tech News in a Personalized Weekly Newsletter This n8n template automates the collection, storage, and summarization of technology news from top sites, turning it into a concise, personalized weekly newsletter. If you like staying informed but want to reduce daily distractions, this workflow is perfect for you. It leverages RSS feeds, vector databases, and LLMs to read and curate tech content on your behalf—so you only receive what truly matters. How it works A daily scheduled trigger fetches articles from multiple popular tech RSS feeds like Wired, TechCrunch, and The Verge. Fetched articles are: Normalized to extract titles, summaries, and publish dates. Converted to vector embeddi

How to set it up

Open template #3986 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: Gmail, Embeddings OpenAI, OpenAI Chat Model. Then open each of those nodes and pick the credential.
Check the model in the AI Agent 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 "Personalized AI Tech Newsletter Using RSS, OpenAI and Gmail" (https://n8n.io/workflows/3986). It uses: Gmail, AI Agent, Embeddings OpenAI, OpenAI Chat Model, Recursive Character Text Splitter, Simple Vector Store, Default Data Loader. 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

Gmail AI Agent Embeddings OpenAI OpenAI Chat Model Recursive Character Text Splitter Simple Vector Store Default Data Loader

Questions

Yes. Miha published it free on n8n.io as a verified creator, and it has 53K views. It runs on n8n Cloud or a self-hosted n8n instance.

Gmail, Embeddings OpenAI, OpenAI Chat Model. The other 4 nodes are built into n8n.

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