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This sounds like a perfect use-case for automation using recorded macros. The failure (or perhaps solutions exist) is lack of facilities in our desktop OSes.
by karmakaze 3y ago
This sounds like a perfect use-case for automation using recorded macros. The failure (or perhaps solutions exist) is lack of facilities in our desktop OSes.
- glandium 3y agoAFAIK, macOS is the only OS to come with this sort of things out of the box (and that is supposed to work consistently across all applications; good luck with that on Linux). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automator_(macOS) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automator_(macOS) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleScript https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleScript
- karmakaze 3y agoThat is what I had in mind as I wrote it. Sad that many macOS apps now are built with Electron, or we simply use web browsers to access public or internal apps.
- depressedpanda 3y agoUsing web browsers to access apps is actually a boon in this regard: the whole UI is exposed via the DOM, and you can use JavaScript to interact with it for macros -- and it's cross platform as it works on any OS that can run a web browser! In contrast Automator/AppleScript only works on macOS afaict.
- skydhash 3y agoBut then you got the ugliest DOM. I left FaceBook because I was trying to curate my friends list (2k+) down to only the person I know in the real world. But the Unfriend process was a dark pattern and automating it was more work than it was worth. Instagram was worse.
- dr_kiszonka 3y agoThere is a free Power Automate Desktop for Windows.
- salawat 3y agoMacros are generally locked down in enterprise network environments due to the risk of acting as a malware vector.