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Slack and Todoist integration

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How to connect Slack and Todoist

Create a new workflow and add the first step

In n8n, click the "Add workflow" button in the Workflows tab to create a new workflow. Add the starting point – a trigger on when your workflow should run: an app event, a schedule, a webhook call, another workflow, an AI chat, or a manual trigger. Sometimes, the HTTP Request node might already serve as your starting point.

Slack and Todoist integration: Create a new workflow and add the first step

Prioritize Todoist tasks with OpenRouter AI and send daily summaries to Slack

Title Prioritize Todoist tasks and send a daily summary to Slack Who’s it for Busy professionals, team leads, and freelancers who want a plug-and-play, AI-assisted morning briefing that turns messy task lists into a clear, actionable plan. What it does / How it works At 08:00 every morning, the workflow pulls open tasks from Todoist. An AI agent scores and ranks them by urgency, importance, dependencies, and effort, then produces a concise plan. You receive the summary in Slack (Markdown). Overdue or critical items are highlighted with warnings. How to set up Connect OAuth for Todoist and Slack. Select your posting channel in Send to Slack. Adjust the time in Morning Schedule Trigger (default 08:00). Run once to verify the parser output and Slack preview, then set the workflow Active. Requirements n8n (cloud or self-hosted) Todoist account / Slack workspace LLM provider connected in the AI node (do not hardcode keys in HTTP nodes) How to customize the workflow Edit the prompt in AI Task Analyzer to tweak prioritization rules. Adjust Format AI Summary to match your tone and structure. Add filters in the Todoist node (e.g., due today). (Optional) Log results to Google Sheets or a database for analytics. Disclaimer (community node) This template uses a community LangChain node for AI features and is intended for self-hosted n8n. Add a workflow image at the top of your submission page for a clearer preview.

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Build your own Slack and Todoist integration

Create custom Slack and Todoist workflows by choosing triggers and actions. Nodes come with global operations and settings, as well as app-specific parameters that can be configured. You can also use the HTTP Request node to query data from any app or service with a REST API.

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Slack and Todoist integration details

Slack

Slack

Slack is a powerful collaboration tool for businesses of all sizes. It brings team communication and collaboration into one place so you can get more work done, whether you belong to a large enterprise or a small business.

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Todoist

Todoist

Todoist is a simple yet powerful to-do list app. It lets you set up a task and sub-tasks, add members, communicate with the team, & manage projects.

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  • Michelle

    Slack node: Channel list not loading with "Issues: There was a problem loading the parameter options from server: "[object Object]""

    Michelle

    I’m trying to use a Slack node for searching messages in a specific channel. Yet, when I add the option for channel selection, I get an error: *Issues: There was a problem loading the parameter options from server: “[ob…

    Open topic
  • Ageng Putra

    Slack Trigger Node stopped working between two different channels

    Ageng Putra

    Describe the problem/error/question I have two separate workflows, each using a different Slack app integration: Staging channel → uses trigger-app 1 Production channel → uses trigger-app 2 The issue: The Slack…

    Open topic
  • Kyrylo

    Slack's channel history timestamp parameters

    Kyrylo

    Describe the problem I’m trying to get certain messages from a channel. The way I had it configured with HTTP node was by making a request to this URL: https://slack.com/api/conversations.history?channel={{ $(‘get_all_m…

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  • Ignas

    Scalable Slack triggers set up

    Ignas

    Describe the problem/error/question Hey Community, we recently rolled out N8N company wide and we are missing is scalable solution to Slack trigger set up. The problem is that for every workflow that we create in N8N we …

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  • Sergiy B.

    Slack node token rotation issue

    Sergiy B.

    Describe the problem/error/question I have a Opt in option switched on in the Slack app, so tokens are rotating every 12 hours, but there is no way I found in n8n to make dynamik access tocken to be applied, so every 12…

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