- Smarthome with HomeKit for lights, fans and stuff. Using motion sensors and time based automations a lot
- Browser extension to automatically add Japanese words I look up to my Anki deck
- scripts to automatically ocr documents in my Dropbox, run it through classification for automatic renaming and information extraction, then add it to DEVONthink for archiving. Then using a document scanner app to throw things into Dropbox
- ifttt / zapier actions to add pull request reviews to my todo list, automatically translate Japanese messages to English with slack reactions, backup posts/pictures I am tagged in on Facebook, and and and
- AppleScripts to generate random usernames, one time emails (with date and website encoded) and logging generations in DEVONthink
- mini bots to normalize pull
Request titles / descriptions, link them to JIRA tickets, assign them to the PR opener, transition to “in progress”
- sieve Filters to automatically bounce expired emails, organize based on website, automatically redirect tracking emails to Deliveries, add flight emails
to flight tracking apps
- cli tools to clock me in, clock me out and warn me if I’m under my agreed hours at work
- a lot of workflow workflows on my phone to do things like: navigate me home, find a Starbucks, and heaps of other smaller things
...and probably many more. In general, if I have to do something manually more than 3-4 times and I notice a pattern, I try to automate it
- Automatic cat food dispenser
- Smarthome with HomeKit for lights, fans and stuff. Using motion sensors and time based automations a lot
- Browser extension to automatically add Japanese words I look up to my Anki deck
- scripts to automatically ocr documents in my Dropbox, run it through classification for automatic renaming and information extraction, then add it to DEVONthink for archiving. Then using a document scanner app to throw things into Dropbox
- ifttt / zapier actions to add pull request reviews to my todo list, automatically translate Japanese messages to English with slack reactions, backup posts/pictures I am tagged in on Facebook, and and and
- AppleScripts to generate random usernames, one time emails (with date and website encoded) and logging generations in DEVONthink
- mini bots to normalize pull Request titles / descriptions, link them to JIRA tickets, assign them to the PR opener, transition to “in progress”
- sieve Filters to automatically bounce expired emails, organize based on website, automatically redirect tracking emails to Deliveries, add flight emails to flight tracking apps
- cli tools to clock me in, clock me out and warn me if I’m under my agreed hours at work
- a lot of workflow workflows on my phone to do things like: navigate me home, find a Starbucks, and heaps of other smaller things
...and probably many more. In general, if I have to do something manually more than 3-4 times and I notice a pattern, I try to automate it