Automate Slack Briefings with Google Calendar & GitHub Workflow

Automate Your Slack Briefings with Google Calendar & GitHub Workflow

Transform your team's pre-meeting preparation with the seamless integration of Google Calendar, Slack, and GitHub. This innovative workflow enables you to automate Slack briefings by gathering the latest relevant data from your Google Calendar and GitHub repositories, ensuring that attendees are informed with a concise, data-driven briefing just minutes before your meeting begins.

What This Workflow Does

• Hourly Event Fetching: Every hour, the workflow automatically checks your selected Google Calendar for the next upcoming meeting.
• Meeting Notes Retrieval: It pulls the most recent GitHub meeting notes issue and retains it if it predates your upcoming meeting.
• Notification Scheduling: The workflow calculates a notification time precisely five minutes before the meeting starts, ensuring timely briefings.
• GitHub Query: Using keywords from the meeting title, it searches for relevant pull requests and open issues on GitHub that are created after the previous meeting date.
• Data Compilation: Merges and formats findings into a coherent list of topics, integrating both PRs and issues.
• Slack Messaging: Builds a detailed Slack Block Kit message with the meeting title, time, related GitHub items, and previous meeting notes, sending it via DM to each non-declined attendee by resolving their Slack user email from Google Calendar.

Use Cases

• Team Coordination: Ideal for remote and distributed teams to streamline communication and ensure everyone is prepared before a meeting.
• Efficient Project Management: Perfect for project managers who need to keep abreast of the latest developments and discussions related to ongoing projects.
• SaaS Operations: Beneficial for SaaS operators looking to automate their workflow processes and enhance productivity in team collaborations.

Technical Details

• Integrations: Google Calendar, GitHub, Slack
• n8n Nodes Used: If, Set, Code, Wait, Merge, Slack
• Access Configuration: Connect Google Calendar OAuth2 credentials, GitHub API Token/OAuth2, Slack OAuth2 credentials.

Upgrade your workflow management with this powerful automation to keep your team synchronized and informed, minimizing pre-meeting chaos and maximizing efficiency.