From the course: Automate Your Work with n8n (No Code Required)

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What makes n8n special

What makes n8n special

- [Instructor] Did you ever wish that one tool could handle part of your daily busy work so that you have more time for the real impactful tasks? Well, that is exactly what n8n can do for you. It lets you puzzle together some building blocks to automate tasks that you do again and again without writing any code. Before we dive in, let's talk about these building blocks, which in n8n are called nodes. Think of a node as a step in the process, like one node picks up an email, one reads a file, another sends a message. You can drag and drop these nodes into a canvas and connect them to form this workflow. And the real power of n8n comes with this huge list of nodes that are ready to use. You have nodes like Google Gemini, OpenAI, nodes like popular apps like Airtable or Asana, and nodes that add logic like filters and limits. You can add it all and form a workflow. As you build a workflow, you'll see each node laid out on…

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