N8n Morning Inbox Digest: WhatsApp, Email & LinkedIn w/ OpenAI

Get your daily WhatsApp, Email & LinkedIn briefing—automatically—every morning

N8n Morning Inbox Digest: WhatsApp, Email & LinkedIn w/ OpenAI runs each day at 8:00 to collect recent WhatsApp messages, incoming emails, and pending LinkedIn invitations. It then uses OpenAI to turn everything into a short, plain-text digest and sends it to you via WhatsApp—organized by urgency.

What this workflow does

• Schedules the digest with a schedule trigger to run daily at 8:00.
• Configures your lookback: you set a digest recipient name and a lookback window (in hours) to determine how far back to fetch activity.
• Collects data with Nilyo:
  • Recent WhatsApp messages
  • Recent incoming emails
  • Received LinkedIn invitations
• Resilient aggregation: it continues even if one source fails, then waits for all three to return and combines results into a single dataset.
• Generates an OpenAI briefing grouped into:
  • “needs an answer today”
  • “can wait”
  • “ignore”
• Sends the digest to you on WhatsApp using Nilyo.

Use cases

• Operators and founders who want a morning triage of WhatsApp, email, and LinkedIn without checking each inbox.
• Automation engineers deploying a reliable n8n automation workflow that consolidates multi-channel updates into one actionable summary.
• Teams handling inbound requests and invitations, using “today / can wait / ignore” to prioritize responses.

Technical details

• Scheduled execution via schedule trigger
• Data collection using n8n-nodes-nilyo (Nilyo community node)
• Aggregation with aggregate and data shaping via set, merge
• Briefing generation using OpenAI Chat
• Includes a sticky note and uses a configurable recipient + lookback_hours

Setup reminder: install n8n-nodes-nilyo, create a Nilyo personal token (Agent access), connect Email/WhatsApp/LinkedIn in Nilyo, add an OpenAI API credential, then set digest_recipient and lookback_hours.