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Spawn recurring Notion tasks from rules with Data Tables and Slack

Ready for 3.0

by Kevin Yu ✓ · 16 views · created 2026-07-28 · Personal Productivity

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 workflow has 8 nodes and runs on a schedule (every day at 06:00). Along the way it connects Notion and Slack.

How it runs

Trigger: On a schedule (every day at 06:00).

  1. Read Recurrence Rules (Notion): get many (database page)
  2. Select Rules Due Today (Code): runs custom JavaScript code
  3. Get Spawn Ledger (Data table): get
  4. Filter Already Spawned (Code): runs custom JavaScript code
  5. Create Notion Task Page (Notion): work with database page
  6. Record Spawn In Ledger (Data table): create or update
  7. Post Spawn Summary (Slack): uses Slack

Services it uses

NotionSlack

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

Quick Overview This workflow runs daily to read recurrence rules from a Notion database, creates due task pages in a Notion tasks database, prevents duplicate spawns using an n8n Data Table ledger, and posts a summary of created tasks to a Slack channel. How…

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