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These being:
* New Toothbrush
* New Floss (I recently had a friend stay over, and asked me where I got the floss, as it was the best he had ever used)
* Toilet roll
* Mouthwash
* Shampoo/Conditioner
* Facecloth's
* Deodorant
They all just show up on my doorstep once per month, I don't even have to think about it!
Passive learning. Whenever I come across something cool or interesting, I put it into a chrome extension I made called "Harvest". It sends me email reminders of what I've added on a spaced repetition schedule (1, 7, 17, 35 days into the future) for optimal retention https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/harvest-grow-your-...
Not sure if this counts because I didn't actually code anything: but using gmail filters to automate my personal email flow has had a huge effect on my day.
I'd say it counts. My favorite filter is anything containing "unsubscribe" goes to a "Mailers" folder never to be seen. I don't understand how people can deal with having unread emails in their inbox all the time.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to GROUP+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
or which quote other email that ends with the above.
I automated downloading and reconciling my financials from all my bank accounts. https://disjoint.ca/projects/ledger-reconciler
Holy cow, I've been looking for this but for the US. Anybody know of any?
I also added blue LEDs for a simplified weather forecast: A 12h clock face cut in 4 quarters, 1 LED per quarter, indicating rain. So if I leave the house in the morning I bring an umbrella if any of the next 12h LEDs is blue, but if I go to buy groceries I only check the current 3h block LED. I'm using openweathermap for this but I wouldn't recommend it, the forecasts are a lot worse than what I get from a simple weather forecast app on Android.
I also wrote a scraper for web comics that turns them into ebooks so I can read them on my ereader.
I'm currently thinking about automating my banking. I had a look at HBCI, but it's so terrible that I then considered website scraping. Then I heard that banks will be required to provide a sane API next year or so so I'm waiting for that first.
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I'd say it counts. My favorite filter is anything containing "unsubscribe" goes to a "Mailers" folder never to be seen. I don't understand how people can deal with having unread emails in their inbox all the time.
Am I the only one who clicks the unsubscribe link? I live by Inbox Zero and I've been giving out my email address for over a decade (500+ sites and services in 1Password), but I very rarely receive marketing emails because I always unsubscribe. In the US, it's a law that businesses must comply with opt-out requests. Do most people feel their inbox is too far gone to manage manually?
How much of other kinds of spam do you receive? Any chance it's correlated with clicking Unsubscribe on some piece of email?
Passive learning. Whenever I come across something cool or interesting, I put it into a chrome extension I made called "Harvest". It sends me email reminders of what I've added on a spaced repetition schedule (1, 7, 17, 35 days into the future) for optimal retention https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/harvest-grow-your-...
I automated complaining once a month to the local water utility about a persistent puddle in the street in front of my home, caused by a leak.
Ohh someone should do this for the pot holes in the Bay Area.
This was five years ago, donno if they've improved it.
I have toiletries delivered to me once per month (from Amazon). These being: * New Toothbrush * New Floss (I recently had a friend stay over, and asked me where I got the floss, as it was the best he had ever used) * Toilet roll * Mouthwash * Shampoo/Conditioner * Facecloth's * Deodorant They all just show up on my doorstep once per month, I don't even have to think about it!