Discover Automaton
Automaton has four distinct modules for making your life easier. You can open the configuration for each module by double clicking its configuration file in Preferences.
Automaton can be run with or without a Dock Icon, and/or a status bar menu.
AutoNotes |
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You're working away, and suddenly you need to make a note. But it's all too hard. You've got to open a text editor, decide on a file name and directory so you won't lose it later on. You probably need to cut and paste the note from another app you were working on. Then you've got to save and close the editor. AutoNotes makes your life easier. Just hit F1 (or the hot key you have configured) and start typing. Enter a title and some delicious style tags. If you want to copy in notes from another app, you can hit Option-F1 to copy the currently selected text from whatever app you are currently in, into a new Auto-Notes page. Or Command-F1 to copy from the pasteboard to a new page. Later you can find your note by title, by tag or by searching. But that's not all. You can also link your pages to each other like a Wiki. Any time a page refers to the title of another page, you can click and get to it directly. Build up a whole interlinked network of your thoughts and notes. And that's not even the best part. AutoNotes does not commit you to yet another wierd and wonderful proprietary file format. All your notes are stored in your autoNotes repository in your choice of plain text, RTF or RTFD files (the same file formats TextEdit supports), named according to the title you gave them. You can even add images with RTFD format. Here's the bonus - any folder is an AutoNotes repository. Try opening a pre-existing folder of documents in AutoNotes, and if the documents are sensibly named, they will be all linked to each other like a Wiki. Even plaintext documents will be linked, all without modifying your existing documents. Then if you like, export your repository as a HTML web site. Power and simplicity. The ideal way to manage your notes. Suggested uses for AutoNotes:
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AutoClips |
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You copied something to the Pasteboard several pastes ago, and now you want to get access to it. Hit Option-Command-V and cycle through the last 20 or more things you pasted to the clipboard, whether they be text or images. Or you can access your recent clips directly from either the Dock or Status Bar menu. You can also find them in the menu sorted by application or by the Spaces Workspace you copied it from. Manually set up your own sets of clips that you can access either from the menu or with a custom hot key. |
AutoTyper |
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AutoTyper is a classic typing saver program. It can replace what you've typed into any other application with some different text.
You can make for example $DATE typed into your word processor get replaced with the current date. Or you could make $FORM_LETTER get replaced with an entire form letter when typing in your email program Or you could make "mysig" get replaced by your signature, either as text or an image. Or you can enable a built-in set of common spelling errors to auto-correct. The possibilities are endless for saving typing. Suggested uses for AutoTyper:
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AutoFiler |
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AutoFiler keeps your files and folders organized according to your own preset rules.
Anytime you find yourself repeating the same actions with your files over and over, you can make it into a rule and let AutoFiler do it for you. You could make any audio files in your downloads directory get imported into iTunes You could automatically empty files from your trash when they've been sitting there for a week. You could mark red in the finder recently downloaded files in your Downloads. Create "dropzone" directories. Anything you drop in a particular directory gets backed up, or archived, or securely deleted, or whatever you can think up! AutoFiler also comes with Application clean-up rules. When you drag an application to the Trash, AutoFiler will prompt you and ask if you want to also trash its configuration files Suggested uses for AutoFiler:
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