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Articles, blogs, guides and how-tos about business process automation.

  • Baserow

    Baserow is an open-source, self-hostable database platform that works like Airtable but gives you full control over your data and infrastructure. It provides a spreadsheet-style interface for creating and managing relational databases, making it accessible to non-technical users while still offering a proper API for developers who want to build on top of it. The appeal of Baserow over commercial alternatives is ownership: you can run it on your own servers, which matters for organisations with data residency requirements or those that simply don’t want their operational data sitting in a third-party SaaS platform. It supports all the field types you’d expect (text, numbers, dates, files, linked records, formulas) and offers grid, gallery, Kanban, and form views. The n8n node for Baserow lets your automation workflows read from and write to Baserow tables directly. This is useful for workflows that need a lightweight database backend without the overhead of setting up and querying a traditional SQL database. You might use Baserow as the central data store for a workflow that collects form submissions, tracks project status, or manages inventory across multiple locations. At Osher Digital, we help organisations set up Baserow as part of their automation stack, whether that’s self-hosting it alongside n8n or connecting it to existing systems. We design the table structures, configure the API connections in n8n, and build workflows that keep Baserow data in sync with your other tools. Learn more about our system integration services.
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  • Pushover

    Pushover

    Pushover is a notification service that sends real-time push notifications to your phone, tablet, or desktop. Unlike email or SMS, Pushover notifications appear instantly as system-level alerts, which makes them ideal for time-sensitive alerts that need immediate attention. You pay once for the app and get a simple API that any system can call to send you a notification. In n8n workflows, the Pushover node is used as the “alert me” step at the end of a process. When something important happens, whether a job fails, a payment comes through, a server goes down, or a customer submits a high-priority request, the Pushover node sends a push notification to the right person’s phone. It supports priority levels (including emergency priority that keeps alerting until acknowledged), custom sounds, and links back to the relevant system. Pushover fills a gap that email doesn’t cover well: urgent, real-time alerts that are hard to miss. Emails get buried in inboxes. Pushover notifications pop up on your lock screen. For operations teams, system administrators, and business owners who need to know about critical events immediately, it’s a simple and reliable solution. At Osher Digital, we integrate Pushover into n8n workflows for clients who need reliable alerting without the complexity of a full incident management platform. We configure priority levels, delivery groups, and quiet hours so you get notified about what matters without being overwhelmed by noise. Learn more about our business automation services.
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  • ClickUp

    ClickUp

    ClickUp is a project management platform that consolidates tasks, documents, goals, time tracking, and team communication into a single application. It’s designed to replace the collection of separate tools many teams use for task management, documentation, and collaboration, offering a unified workspace where project work happens. The n8n node for ClickUp lets you automate task and project management operations from within your workflows. You can create tasks, update statuses, assign team members, add comments, move tasks between lists, and pull task data into reports, all without anyone manually clicking through the ClickUp interface. This is particularly valuable for teams that use ClickUp as their work management hub but have processes that span other systems too. Common automation scenarios include creating ClickUp tasks automatically from form submissions, customer support tickets, or CRM events. You might also sync task statuses between ClickUp and a client-facing portal, generate weekly reports from ClickUp data, or update task fields based on events in other systems like payment confirmations or deployment completions. At Osher Digital, we help teams connect ClickUp to the rest of their tech stack through n8n. Whether you need tasks created automatically from external triggers, status updates synced to other platforms, or reporting workflows that pull data from ClickUp, we build automations that reduce the manual effort of keeping ClickUp up to date. Learn more about our process automation services.
    ClickUp consultants
  • Todoist

    Todoist

    Todoist is a task management application used by individuals and teams to organise work, set deadlines, and track progress on projects. It’s known for its clean interface and natural language input, where you can type something like “Review proposal tomorrow at 3pm #Work p1” and it creates a task with the right project, priority, and due date automatically. The n8n node for Todoist lets your automation workflows create, update, complete, and retrieve tasks without anyone opening the Todoist app. This is useful when tasks need to be generated by external events: a new support ticket comes in and a follow-up task appears in your Todoist, a form submission triggers a review task with a deadline, or a completed payment creates a fulfilment checklist. Todoist works well as a lightweight task layer on top of more complex business systems. The people doing the work interact with a simple, familiar task list, while n8n handles the behind-the-scenes job of creating tasks from events, updating them when conditions change, and marking them complete when downstream systems confirm the work is done. At Osher Digital, we connect Todoist to our clients’ business workflows through n8n when they need a simple, accessible task management interface without the overhead of a full project management platform. We handle the API setup, task template design, and workflow logic so tasks appear in the right projects with the right details at the right time. Learn more about our process automation services.
    Todoist consultants
  • Merge

    Merge

    Merge is a unified API platform that solves one of the most frustrating problems in B2B software: building and maintaining dozens of individual integrations. Instead of writing separate connectors for every HRIS, ATS, CRM, accounting tool, and ticketing system your product needs to talk to, Merge gives you a single API that covers hundreds of third-party apps across these categories. For businesses building software products, this means your engineering team can ship integrations faster and spend less time debugging API changes from individual vendors. For companies wanting to connect internal tools, Merge reduces the overhead of keeping data consistent across platforms that were never designed to talk to each other. The n8n node for Merge lets you pull normalised data from any of Merge’s supported integrations into your automation workflows. You might use it to sync employee records from multiple HRIS platforms into a single source of truth, or to pull candidate data from various applicant tracking systems into your reporting pipeline. At Osher Digital, we help organisations design and build integration architectures that use Merge as the connective layer between their core systems. Whether you need to unify data from multiple SaaS tools or build customer-facing integrations into your own product, our team can plan the data mapping, configure the Merge connection in n8n, and make sure everything stays in sync. Learn more about our system integration services.
    Merge consultants
  • Item Lists

    Item Lists

    Item Lists is a utility node in n8n that handles a problem every automation builder hits eventually: managing how data items flow through a workflow. When you’re processing batches of records, you often need to split a single list into individual items, combine separate items back into one list, remove duplicates, sort results, or limit how many items continue downstream. Item Lists does all of this. Without this node, you’d need to write custom JavaScript in a Code node every time you wanted to deduplicate a list of customer records or split a CSV import into individual rows for processing. Item Lists makes these operations available as simple configuration options, which keeps workflows readable and easier to maintain. Common uses include splitting a batch API response into individual items for per-record processing, removing duplicate entries before inserting data into a database, sorting results before sending a summary email, and limiting output to the top N results. It’s one of those nodes that doesn’t do anything flashy on its own but becomes essential in any workflow that handles more than a handful of records. At Osher Digital, we use Item Lists extensively when building data processing pipelines in n8n. If your workflows deal with batch data from APIs, spreadsheets, or databases, we can help you structure the data flow properly so nothing gets lost or duplicated along the way. Learn more about our automated data processing services.
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  • Code

    Code

    The Code node in n8n is where you write custom JavaScript or Python when the built-in nodes don’t cover what you need. Every automation platform has limits to what you can do with drag-and-drop configuration, and the Code node is n8n’s escape hatch for those situations. It lets you write arbitrary logic that runs as part of your workflow, with full access to the data flowing through it. You might use the Code node to transform data into a format that a downstream API expects, perform calculations across multiple input items, parse unstructured text, generate dynamic content, or implement business logic that’s too specific for a generic node. It receives input items from the previous node and returns output items to the next one, so it slots into any workflow like any other node. The Code node supports both “Run Once for All Items” (when you need to work across the entire dataset) and “Run Once for Each Item” (when you want to process records individually). It also has access to built-in helper methods for making HTTP requests, accessing environment variables, and working with dates, which means you can do quite a lot without importing external libraries. At Osher Digital, the Code node is something we use daily when building n8n workflows for clients. Whether it’s cleaning messy API data, implementing custom business rules, or building logic that no pre-built node covers, we write tested, documented code that your team can understand and maintain. Learn more about our n8n consulting services.
    Code consultants
  • Telegram Trigger

    Telegram Trigger

    The Telegram Trigger node in n8n starts a workflow whenever something happens in a Telegram chat. It listens for incoming messages, commands, callback queries (button clicks), and other events from the Telegram Bot API, then passes that data into your n8n workflow for processing. This makes it possible to build chatbots, notification systems, and interactive tools that live inside Telegram. Telegram is widely used for team communication, customer support channels, and even as a lightweight interface for internal tools. The Trigger node turns a Telegram bot into the front door for an automation workflow. Someone sends a message or clicks a button in Telegram, and n8n picks it up and does something with it: looks up information, creates a record in another system, sends a response, or kicks off a longer process. Practical examples include customer support bots that look up order status and respond in the chat, internal operations bots that let field staff submit reports via Telegram, and alert systems that let recipients acknowledge incidents by clicking a button. The Trigger node handles the webhook from Telegram, so your workflow receives structured data about who sent the message, what they said, and which chat it came from. At Osher Digital, we build Telegram-based automation for clients who want a quick, accessible interface for their workflows without building a full web application. We handle the bot setup, webhook configuration, conversation flow design, and integration with your back-end systems through n8n. Learn more about our business automation services.
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