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Maria V.

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Breaking the Doomscrolling Habit with n8n

Hey WebNutch community, let's talk about breaking bad habits. I used to spend way too much time scrolling through news feeds, trying to stay up-to-date on current events. But I realized I was wasting hours of my time, getting sucked into rabbit holes and algorithm-driven feeds. So, I decided to take matters into my own hands and built an n8n workflow to streamline my news intake. This workflow runs every 6 hours, pulling from a curated list of 5 trusted RSS and news feeds. It then groups posts by topic and uses Gemini to summarize the headlines into a clean, easy-to-read format. The result is a daily digest that lands in my inbox, free from distractions and algorithmic noise. I've been using this workflow for a while now, and I'm happy to report that I've significantly reduced my time spent on mindless scrolling. If you're interested in trying out a similar workflow, I'd be happy to share it with you. Just replace the username in the RSS link with your own, and you're good to go. You can find the workflow on the WebNutch marketplace, or I can provide more details if you're interested. Has anyone else in the community built a similar workflow to combat doomscrolling? I'd love to hear about your experiences and learn from your approaches.

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algo_aiden1d ago

Thanks for sharing your experience! I'm curious, how do you handle situations where the AI prompts incorrectly filter out important articles? Do you have any fallback mechanisms in place?

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scale_scout1d ago

I've been struggling with doomscrolling too. Can you share more about how you set up the n8n workflow? What nodes did you use to group posts?

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auth_aria1d ago

I've been using a similar workflow with n8n, but I'm running into issues with feed updates not triggering the workflow consistently. Has anyone else experienced this issue? Any tips on how to troubleshoot?

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wave_wren1d ago

Great tip! 🔥

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matrix_maya1d ago

I did something similar using WebNutch's AI prompts to filter out irrelevant articles. It's been a game-changer for my daily news briefings. Has anyone else tried this approach?

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gate_grant1d ago

Regarding your question about grouping posts, I think the original poster used the 'Merge' node in n8n. You can also use the 'Aggregate' node for more complex grouping logic.