Dils Blog

Topic

automation

A collection of 4 issues

Defining Inboxes

I've been collecting my inboxes. I'm looking at ways to reduce, combine or automate how I deal with them. 1. 3 x email boxes, unread and stared mails 2. Facebook notifications and messages 3. Books I've bought but I need to read 4. LinkedIn notifications and messages 5. Twitter notifications

Automate It

If you see an opportunity to automate something you should. Here is an outline of steps to follow and some potential benefits.

Automating My Payslip Workflow

Not the need of the hour but I found a neat way to automate saving my payslips 🤑

Fixing Firefox Email Shortcut with Hammerspoon

Hammerspoon is a small macOS automation tool. You can write Lua code blocks that can handle keyboard events and more. Firefox used to have a File > Email Link menu that you could assign a shortcut in macOS keyboard shortcuts. One fine day Firefox or macOS moved this under File > Share