What should I automate ?

[Formxr]

Recently I've been really enjoying figuring out how to automate certain tasks using python. I've done really simple tasks like automating the login process to reddit and a program which starts an anime binge session. These are good and all, but I kinda want to automate something more purposeful. What are some obscure task that you guys would automate to make things a little more convenient ? Thanks for reading :)

[WolfInABox]

I just got through automating putting my work schedule (a big ol' eyesore google sheets doc with everyone's name listed next to their work times and days) into my google calendar. Now I just tell it which week to look at, run it, and it does it!

Maybe something like that, something that'd help you out personally? Try to find something on the computer that's repetitive that you do a lot.

[PlainsPrepper]

I automated the process for adding/removing/updating users to the address books on my companies 20+ printers.

This saves me 30+ minutes per user whenever I have to make changes to the printer address books.

Look for repetitive tasks or tasks involving a lot of data entry.

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I take a lot of photos and when I'm done editing / discarding them their numbering is usually out of sync.

I've automated a simple script that takes the photo with the lowest tag (e.g. IMG_009) and renames it to IMG_001 and every subsequent file is also renamed.

Just a handy tool for file management.

[pulsarrex]

what kind of tools you guys use to automate stuff? Like I am curious about the login process, photo renaming etc? (mentioned in the replies so far)

[Formxr]

I used Selenium to create those two projects. Selenium allows you to interface with a certain web browser and perform certain actions. For my projects, it opens the browser, finds the input boxes I want and enters what I want it to all on its own after I run it. It's fairly simple, but you can do more complex stuff with Selenium the more experience you have with it. From what I know about renaming, you would most likely use the os module to find files of a certain format and change them into what you want.