About FlowRunbook — tested automation tutorials

What this is

FlowRunbook is a collection of automation tutorials for n8n, Make, Zapier and Power Automate. Each guide builds one workflow, runs it end to end, and ships the workflow file it built. No listicles, no screenshots of a workflow that was never run, no hype.

Every load-bearing claim in a guide links to its source — usually the tool's own documentation — and every guide ends with a Sources list. If a step was not run, the guide says so plainly instead of describing it as if it worked.

How a guide gets listed

• Run it. The workflow is built in the tool, imported from the file on the page, and executed. The guide records the software versions and the real output of the run.
• Ship the file. The workflow file the guide builds is linked from the guide, so a reader can import the exact file that was tested.
• Show the traps. The mistakes that cost time during the run — a setting that silently does nothing, a default that overwrites instead of appending — are written up in the guide, not edited out.
• Date it. Every guide carries the date it was checked and the versions it ran on. Automation tools change fast; a guide that cannot say when it last ran is a guess.

What is covered, and what is not

Guides cover tools that can be run and tested here. A tool that needs a cloud account this site does not hold gets no guide until it can be run. That is why the first guides are n8n: it runs locally, so every step in them was executed on this machine.

Voice

Plain, technical, humble. Here is what was built and how — never superlatives. The work speaks; adjectives don't.