Its trivial compared to everything else in the thread, but the most valuable automation I've got running is a simple weather forecast to warn me when it's going to rain.
Almost a decade ago I had my wisdom teeth out, and the surgery was more involved than most. Ever since then, I've been getting migraine-like headaches and jaw pain when it's going to rain. If I can get ahead of it by a day, I can usually lessen the impact.
I also use IFTTT to pump these forecasts into a spreadsheet where I track pain levels and diet, in hopes of finding a significant pattern. No grand revelations yet, but I did discover that doubling my caffeine intake a day in advance helps.
It's not completely automated, but I maintain a large spreadsheet of movies and tv series I want to watch (mostly movies). I can put either the title or the IMDB number into the input sheet and it'll pull the relevant (and formatted) information from OMDB (both directly and through an addon in Sheets). It gives me an average score between IMDB, Metacritic, RottenTomatoes Users and Critics. As of right now I have 2530 films total, with 1733 to watch.
Outside of these, automating consistent things like certain bills, and a simple script to backup my chaotic '_Process' folder free up a few minutes per month, which will add up over the next fifty years (basically an extra day or two.)
Almost a decade ago I had my wisdom teeth out, and the surgery was more involved than most. Ever since then, I've been getting migraine-like headaches and jaw pain when it's going to rain. If I can get ahead of it by a day, I can usually lessen the impact.
I also use IFTTT to pump these forecasts into a spreadsheet where I track pain levels and diet, in hopes of finding a significant pattern. No grand revelations yet, but I did discover that doubling my caffeine intake a day in advance helps.
It's not completely automated, but I maintain a large spreadsheet of movies and tv series I want to watch (mostly movies). I can put either the title or the IMDB number into the input sheet and it'll pull the relevant (and formatted) information from OMDB (both directly and through an addon in Sheets). It gives me an average score between IMDB, Metacritic, RottenTomatoes Users and Critics. As of right now I have 2530 films total, with 1733 to watch.
Outside of these, automating consistent things like certain bills, and a simple script to backup my chaotic '_Process' folder free up a few minutes per month, which will add up over the next fifty years (basically an extra day or two.)