Hey everyone again,
I am back with yet another quick how-to that i think some of you can find interesting and helpful… Since we are all using MP for automation, we know how automation is important in making us more efficient with our work and how it can be a time saver… That’s why i thought it would be cool sharing with you guys a tool i personally use together with Massplanner for different little tasks and they work great in synergy.
I will share a tool i use for automating pretty much any task that is repeating all the time for you… the tool isn’t some fancy tool, and it’s actually free 100% , but it can be pretty handy in the right hands…
It records actually what you are clicking with your mouse and typing on your keyboard and you can record a script out of it and replay it for any task that is of repetitive nature…
so no more macros, or coding or anything, just hit record, examine recorded action and if everything is ok just play the script you created.
First of all i will share the link for the software itself http://automatemytasks.weebly.com/ , just so i don’t forget to do it… lol
I am not going to write the whole tutorial how to use it, because it’s pretty straight forward…
- install 2)record your actions 3) examine and edit steps of your actions 4) play it for as many time as you like
but i will give some tips on using it:
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it’s important that each time when you want to play the script that the things on your desktop be like the way they were when you were recording the script… because the software uses x,y coordination to find where to click, everything should be on same place like when recorded.
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downside of this program is that you can’t use your computer while it’s working, but my tip for this is to leave it work overnight when you go to sleep
For example I myself (on windows) plan how long i want to keep my computer working after i get to sleep depending of how long would the script recording last, and what i do is that i schedule my computer to turn off itself… you can do this on Windows by going on start(search screen)/run/cmd… when you open command prompt just enter shutdown /s /t [number of seconds when you want your computer to turn off from that moment] and that’s it
-so any task that is boring with some creativity you can automate it with this…
I’ll give you guys one example how i use it on day to day basis… One of problems when posting comments on facebook groups is that you can’t know which groups are bringing you clicks and which are not… I know there is already a solution provided by MP team in form of using tokens when posting comments, but i used a different approach… what i did is that i posted different bit.ly link for each group where i posted… so if i posted to 20 groups for example i would create 20 bit.ly links for that test… so basically i used this automation software to automate creating of bit.ly links… i even automated the software to write those link down in notepad in form that is ready to be added in massplanner right away {bit.ly1|bit.ly2|bit.ly3…etc}… I can’t tell you how many hours of work this saved me as you can imagine… Then i had stats for all the groups i posted on one centralized location from my bit.ly account and everything was very easy to check out. Even though i have this example for facebook , you can use this software on any different platform and it basically all depends on you and how creative you get.
That’s it for now, hope this is helpful to someone here… I already posted one [how to] for the giveaway so i’ll post this one out of competition