What aspects of your life have you automated with Python to simplify daily tasks? How can automation enhance productivity and efficiency in your daily routine? Let’s explore the possibilities and share ideas on streamlining tasks for a smoother workflow. #PythonAutomation #ProductivityHacks #SimplifyLife #AutomateTasks
Currently I’m working on my first bash script to automate the start of a new semester
When I’m done, it’ll create folders for every class I’m taking that semester, sub-folders for assignments, notes, and labs, initialize a local git repo and then create a private GitHub repo and push the local folder to it
File / Image generation. I’m too lazy to write all the files required sometimes so I’ll create a template, and iterate over a list to fill in the template 🤧 nothing groundbreaking
Meal planning!
Nothing (I’m new), but the question reminded me an old story.
I used to have this summer job in early 00s at some small firm. The boss was an idiot, with the old socialist era (Eastern bloc) thinking that he owns us.
He started to use some software to monitor if we move our mouses enough during the workday.
Solution: got a nylon bag, turned my laser mouse on its back, and put the bag over. Then turned the fan towards it. As the fan was moving the bag, the mouse registered movement.
I found it hilarious back then, I was like 19.
In my current job we work a lot with raw data. Colleagues use commercial software to perform analysis tasks so it takes them a few keyboard presses and mouse clicks to get what they want.
I wrote a script to automatically generate summaries of these raw data files by reading the files where my current folder is at and doing some statistics with Python. It outputs an excel file but I’m looking at generating webpages through Quarto to make it look better.
There’s a bunch of news sites I like to check occasionally, but some have terrible homepage layouts. I noticed all of them had RSS feeds available, so I built a bot that takes those feeds and pushes new articles to a Discord channel. Having all the news in one place is really convenient.
I do the same with less-than-legal torrents of various series that I’m watching, as manually checking for new episodes was a pain. I’m planning on improving this system by automating it even further; I want these downloads to start automatically as well. Haven’t gotten around to doing that yet though.
I have a lot of game clips taking up storage so I have a system that automatically deletes them after a certain time and a specified size so i don’t delete the clips i like
Scheduling my day to day life: [https://youtu.be/iO7e2dIMH00?si=EOeST8vOkfubSZyQ](https://youtu.be/iO7e2dIMH00?si=EOeST8vOkfubSZyQ)
My Europlasma Investment 🗿🚀🚀🚀
I don’t know if there’s finally an app to do this, but I wanted my commuting playlist to alternate between music & podcasts, so I scripted a solution as my first Python project.
I wrote a simple shell script and set it to autostart when I login. It launches cbonsai in the terminal and brings joy
https://gitlab.com/jallbrit/cbonsai
Simple macros/hotkeys with autohotkey, inserting today’s date, pulling up browser windows (which I use and title consistently for work), templates in obsidian, etc