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🤖📝 Auto-document workflows with GPT-4o-mini sticky notes

Ready for 3.0

by Luis Acosta ✓ · 1,292 views · created 2025-08-16 · AI Summarization, Multimodal AI

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 16 nodes and runs manually, when you click “Execute workflow”. Along the way it connects OpenAI.

How it runs

Trigger: Manually, when you click “Execute workflow”.

  1. Your Workflow Description (Edit Fields (Set)): sets 1 field: Context
  2. load workflow (Read/Write Files from Disk): reads a file from disk
  3. Convert to JSON (Extract from File): extracts data from a file (from json)
  4. Parse Workflow (Code): runs custom JavaScript code
  5. Overall Sticky Note (OpenAI): uses OpenAI
  6. Split Out Items (Code): runs custom JavaScript code
  7. Merge: merges the data from its input branches
  8. Rename Overview (Code): runs custom JavaScript code
  9. Node Sticky Notes (OpenAI): uses OpenAI
  10. Merge: merges the data from its input branches

…plus 5 more steps. See the full node list below.

Services it uses

OpenAI

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 (7)

From the author

🤖📝 Auto-Document Workflows with GPT-4o-mini Sticky Notes Skip the tedious part of writing documentation and turn your n8n workflows into clear, shareable blueprints — fully automated. This workflow takes any workflow JSON, parses its nodes, generates…

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