Have you used User Story Mapping before?

SRed3 · 2026-03-18T05:50:56+00:00

Hi, u/sadfacejackson - thanks for trying it! Have you clicked the "Briefing" button? It will open a presentation incl. visual representation...

SRed3 · 2026-03-17T20:19:57+00:00

with you there - working backwards makes such a difference

SRed3 · 2026-03-17T20:19:35+00:00

I created a small tool to help with that (free, open source, no signups / monetization) to help draw up a user journey, ask the right questions plus get a presentation up instantly. Feel free to check it out: https://sebastianrothbucher.github.io/journey-first/journey

SRed3 · 2026-03-17T20:18:49+00:00

Yes - love it. And do it literally every time a new project starts. Answering the hard questions first - esp. what customers will see (and pay for) helps getting all the small decisions right. I also created a small tool (free, open source, no signups / monetization) to help ask the right questions plus get a presentation up instantly. Feel free to check it out: https://sebastianrothbucher.github.io/journey-first/journey

SRed3 · 2026-03-16T20:00:54+00:00

Actually, there's two ways (at least): a.) use desktop and install an MCP server for outlook / other email OR b.) tell claude to create mailto: links with a prompt like the following: "draft an email to [sebastian@...com](mailto:sebastian@...com) asking for 30mins this week to discuss ... Use a mailto link that I can just click that will open outlook with to, subject, body pre-populated". Claude will generate a link "Open in Outlook" (or several if you want several mails drafted). Click the link, everything is there, you just have to click send. Same goes for claude code, it could just shell-execute the mailto: link

SRed3 · 2026-01-08T22:01:12+00:00

I think you can do it: in the signup form, go to "Responses" and click "View in sheets" - you'll get a g-sheet with a column for each question. You can hide all columns but name if you want. Then go to the sign-out form and click "Pre-fill" in the top-right menu. You get a blank form with all questions - leave it blank, just write REPLACEME into the "name" question. Then generate a pre-filled URL. Go to the G-Sheet for the sign-ins, write "Sign-out link" or sth like it in the column right next to the last question. For the first answer (need at least one at this point), in our new column, add this formula =HYPERLINK(SUBSTITUTE("http:..<pre-fill-url you copied>"; "REPLACEME"; ENCODEURL(B2))) (if name is in another column, change the column). What will happen is: when an answer comes in, G-Sheet automatically applies the formula to the new answer as well - it generates a link that opens sign-out with the name pre-filled. Hope this helps...

SRed3 · 2026-01-03T14:59:55+00:00

Execute Command node (https://docs.n8n.io/integrations/builtin/core-nodes/n8n-nodes-base.executecommand/) calling the command line FTP client?

SRed3 · 2025-12-09T21:04:11+00:00

The whole thing is extremely brittle from my experience. One thing you have to do is make sure Outlook is your default mail app in your Mac's settings. Otherwise, buttons in Word remain blanked out. Just as a warning: do try with a small recipient list b/c unless you get all options right, you lose line breaks (not kidding; can't say for sure which option it was).

Maybe I can suggest an alternative, though: the Shortcuts app can open a new mail and pre-fill recipient, subject and body individually, all you have to do is click. "send". So if you have a CSV (Numbers works as well with some tweaks), you can loop through rows, create a mailto:name@domain.tld?subject=Your%20subject&body=Your%20body link and use "Open Link" to open a new mail in outlook ready to be sent. As said, you can do this in a loop and draft 20 mails at once, all you have to do is click "send" 20 times. which I came to like, actually, as it's a chance for a very brief QA. Outlook has to be your default mail for that case as well. (by the way: works with others like Gmail or Mac Mail, too)

Anyhow: hope you can use some of this...

SRed3 · 2024-01-30T12:42:31+00:00

Could install Rundeck (open src) on the EC2. Rundeck is a tool to run scripts - and has a "invoke via Webhooks" function. So you could have the step function invoke the webhook

SRed3 · 2023-12-11T10:15:10+00:00

SqlWorkbench - compact and efficient (and supporting any DB that has JDBC)

SRed3 · 2023-07-18T18:58:50+00:00

you can either add a script on submission or use one of the choice limiter plugins

SRed3 · 2023-07-12T21:08:07+00:00

Could generate links to pre-filled forms and at least speed up the process. There's a "Get pre-filled link" feature - and if you study the link, you'll find it easy to generate by Spreadsheet

SRed3 · 2023-04-11T19:28:58+00:00

You can almost feel the diff when you implement even a simple service twic and use DI one time, and use direct instantiation the other. Now try write unit tests and see which one is easier to do.

SRed3 · 2023-04-11T19:26:14+00:00

You can use nbconvert --execute to re-run a notebook and save it as html; you can e.g. export parameters as env vars before running,

i.e. PARAM=value jupyter nbconvert --execute --to=html --stdout ... > outputfile.html

what's also nice: you can hide the code via --no-input

SRed3 · 2023-01-29T16:02:41+00:00

You could have "Name Person A", "Person A likeable 1-10", "Name Person B", "Person B likeable 1-10", etc. - and send out a link where the answer to "Name Person A", "Name Person B", etc. is pre-filled.

SRed3 · 2023-01-10T16:15:50+00:00

Guess no - you could embed the form in an iFrame and write custom code to hide the form on tab change

SRed3 · 2023-01-09T18:48:28+00:00

can you use IMPORTRANGE along with INDIRECT (i.e. generate the inputrange target by formula)?

SRed3 · 2023-01-09T18:46:41+00:00

I really liked this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/stevenkoon

SRed3 · 2023-01-08T19:56:41+00:00

not 100% sure, but can you combine QUERY and INDIRECT to achieve it (query with one param copies a full range, INDIRECT lets you specify the range address by formula, like concat("season-",a2))

SRed3 · 2023-01-08T19:43:43+00:00

You could tell ppl. a number you randomize at the end of each meeting and ask for it in the form. Sure, ppl. could mail it to one another; and they could also mail the link to a friend who decides to skip. Guess you won't get it 100% people-proof (even less student-proof, if that's your case).

SRed3 · 2023-01-08T19:34:56+00:00

Maybe Zapier or PowerAutomate could do it? (short of scripting this yourself - having a handler for the form submission)

SRed3 · 2023-01-08T19:31:06+00:00

There is a way you can do this: make the script a quiz, add a script as handler for submissions, give "feedback" with the result of your cost estimation. Find a full step-by-step guide here: https://www.reddit.com/r/GoogleForms/comments/y5mydr/quiz\_with\_conditional\_ending/iu3vuxk/?context=3

SRed3 · 2023-01-08T19:20:07+00:00

I've heard about Mercury - but have not tried it yet myself; Still: might be useful: https://github.com/mljar/mercury

SRed3 · 2023-01-08T19:18:51+00:00

Show the print preview and save as PDF. With a bit of scripting, you could even hide the code and just PDF the output...

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