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New Guides and Reviews Weekly to Help You Fight for Freedom from Your Tedious Tasks

We want to help you build your own freedom, freedom from tedious tasks and the problems that get in the way of the work and activities you love.

Every week, we share a new guide or review about the automatons you might want to recruit into your army. You can find them below, and don’t forget to subscribe to follow along! 

Automation Data: How to Choose the Right Data to Automate (Writer Tool Update)

Automation Data: How to Choose the Right Data to Automate (Writer Tool Update)

One of the first tasks to create a new automation, system, or tool, is to decide what data you need to be working with. Sometimes, this is an obvious choice, like if you’re starting a marketing automation and just need the email and first name of a potential customer. Other times, it can be really confusing, like if you want to create say an automated tool to help writers determine their story structure, as we are.

In this article, we’ll talk about why you should decide the data your app will be working with first, how to determine your automation data, and how to structure it. I’ll also be sharing the data we’ll be using for this new project, and I’d love your feedback on it!

Your First Automation: Duplicate One Spreadsheet to Another

Your First Automation: Duplicate One Spreadsheet to Another

To help ease you into automations, I’m creating this new series called “Your First Automation” to help you learn the basics of automating everything. These guides should help ease you into automations, and also help show you a few tricks that you can use to create your own automations later.

The first automation we’re going to tackle in this series is one of the most basic, but also weirdly useful tricks: creating a duplicate of a spreadsheet.

How to Create Automated Birthday Reminders

How to Create Automated Birthday Reminders

It’s my birthday today! And so, in honor of my birthday, I’m going to show you how to create an automated birthday reminders system with Airtable and Zapier so you never forget to say happy birthday to a friend again!

Turn Off the Lights Automation: How to Easily and Automatically Turn Off Your Home Lights

Turn Off the Lights Automation: How to Easily and Automatically Turn Off Your Home Lights

“My wife forgets to turn off the lights when she leaves the house,” a reader told me recently. “I’d like a lights automation that turns them off when I leave home.”

Good news! If you want to spend less money on electricity, save time by not having to walk around the house before you leave, plus possibly save your marriage (or at least some annoyance with your spouse), there’s an automation for turning off your lights when you leave the house.

And it’s not even that hard!

In this guide, we’re going to look at the three best automations to turn off the lights: the easy way, medium way, and advanced way. Never leave the lights on again with these automations!

Introducing Joe’s Automaton Army

Introducing Joe’s Automaton Army

I want to introduce you to my new website, Joe’s Automaton Army, which is kind of a tech blog, community, and place to figure out what’s happening in this world of automations and AI and productivity tools. Looking forward to hearing what you think and welcome to the Fight Against Tedium.

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