I don't really "automate" in the usual way, except a few limited cases. My computer is almost totally lacking any custom scripts, and I don't have any cron job

I don't really "automate" in the usual way, except a few limited cases. My computer is almost totally lacking any custom scripts, and I don't have any cron jobs on my laptop or anything like that. Mostly what I do is build the workflow to match pre-existing tools, rather than build tools to match a workflow. I do use a massive amount of off-the-shelf automation though. Even for very small personal servers, I make sure that everything is Ansible-ed. I make a lot of use of Obsidian features like daily notes templates, I use YoSmart and Tile, etc. I keep my entire music collection, all my books, and some important documents synced with SyncThing on all my devices. But in general I just don't have a reason to automate much of anything, I try to choose things that just work, and if that's not possible, I try to do it at the source(I'd rather add support for another file format, or switch to a tool that has wider support, that add a converter utility). I'm pretty obsessed with future proofing, and usually choose large and popular software, so it's rare that I want a feature that isn't already there.