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Re: Self Driving Desktop

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I wish this had a ‘Record’ feature. That kind of logging could be incredibly useful. I use tools like Katalon on the web and they are great for making a first pass at test development. It doesn’t need to be entirely visual but if it can capture the flow visually it can be refactored in code and be much more accessible and usable.

Re: Self Driving Desktop

#3

I wish this had a ‘Record’ feature. That kind of logging could be incredibly useful. I use tools like Katalon on the web and they are great for making a first pass at test development. It doesn’t need to be entirely visual but if it can capture the flow visually it can be refactored in code and be much more accessible and usable.

I use OBS for recording and Flowblade for editing. Got sick of editing my mistakes out, so then this repo came to be. Planning to add some playlists to start that up, set file names, begin/end recording.

self-driving-desktop will be part of a demo automation framework that is in the progress.

Re: Self Driving Desktop

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I wish this had a ‘Record’ feature. That kind of logging could be incredibly useful. I use tools like Katalon on the web and they are great for making a first pass at test development. It doesn’t need to be entirely visual but if it can capture the flow visually it can be refactored in code and be much more accessible and usable.

I use OBS for recording and Flowblade for editing. Got sick of editing my mistakes out, so then this repo came to be. Planning to add some playlists to start that up, set file names, begin/end recording. self-driving-desktop will be part of a demo automation framework that is in the progress.

I did have a recording function around, to track mouse movement. The issue is that the mouse movement gets verbose, and you would have to clean that up somehow.

Re: Self Driving Desktop

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use OBS for recording and Flowblade for editing. Got sick of editing my mistakes out, so then this repo came to be. Planning to add some playlists to start that up, set file names, begin/end recording. self-driving-desktop will be part of a demo automation framework that is in the progress.

I did have a recording function around, to track mouse movement. The issue is that the mouse movement gets verbose, and you would have to clean that up somehow.

Sounds like a candidate for machine learning - and an excuse to learn it.

Re: Self Driving Desktop

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I think I have been looking for a framework this simple and straightforward for about...12 years now? Ever since I got my own personal computer as a college student, pretty much. I can't wait to completely go off the wrong quadrant of this chart with it. https://xkcd.com/1205/

re: xkcd, sometimes, it's not just about the time in minutes you save in aggregate. I often find routines especially helpful during flow states -- maximizing time for more creative work.

There's also just something satisfying about using something like Alfred to launch a complex sequence of things that would have taken many mouse clicks and hand movement. Or using keyboard shortcuts to resize and move multiple windows around monitors. It feels almost... powerful? Not sure why.

Re: Self Driving Desktop

#8
For mac there is also talonvoice.com which allows a lot of similar functionality along with methods for connecting to keyboard shortcuts, voice/dictation control and noise control.

Re: Self Driving Desktop

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I did have a recording function around, to track mouse movement. The issue is that the mouse movement gets verbose, and you would have to clean that up somehow.

Sounds like a candidate for machine learning - and an excuse to learn it.

I was going to say "sounds like a candidate for a Kalman filter".

Re: Self Driving Desktop

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I think I have been looking for a framework this simple and straightforward for about...12 years now? Ever since I got my own personal computer as a college student, pretty much. I can't wait to completely go off the wrong quadrant of this chart with it. https://xkcd.com/1205/

I love this xkcd but it's hard to see the compounding or exponential savings the arises
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