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Use AI to organize your Todoist inbox

Ready for 3.0

by Mutasem ✓ · 5,414 views · created 2024-08-30 · Personal Productivity, AI Summarization

Ready for 3.0. This template uses no nodes that n8n 3.0 removes. No removed nodes, versions or helpers found. Static check, last run 2026-10-19.

What this workflow does

This AI workflow has 7 nodes and runs on a schedule (every day). Along the way it connects Todoist and OpenAI.

How it runs

Trigger: On a schedule (every day).

  1. Your Projects (Edit Fields (Set)): sets 1 field: projects
  2. Get inbox tasks (Todoist): get many
  3. If task is not a subtask (Filter): keeps only the items that match a condition
  4. Categorize (OpenAI): uses OpenAI
  5. If other or ai hallucinates (Filter): keeps only the items that match a condition
  6. Update priority in todoist (Todoist): update

Services it uses

TodoistOpenAI

Before you upgrade to n8n 3.0

Nothing in this workflow is removed in n8n 3.0, so it should import and run after the upgrade.

Nodes used (5)

From the author

How it works This workflow adds a priority to each Todoist item in your inbox, based on a list of projects that you add in the workflow. Setup 1. Add your Todoist credentials 2. Add your OpenAI credentials 3. Set your project names and add priority

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