Routine computer tasks
Computers have significantly improved productivity. Most of us cannot even imagine to go back to paper trail days.
But are we really using the power of computers effectively?
We perform so many repetitive tasks on computers today. Thousands of clicks and keystrokes everyday, doing the same things, again and again. In some
ways it is like going back to those paper trail days. Different repetitive tasks with a different tool, but the same inefficiencies.
For many of us we don't even realize the number of repetitive tasks we perform. These everyday tasks take up quite a bit of
our time. Not to mention the many computer users suffering from repetitive injuries.
It is about time for us to join the next step in the evolution of productivity improvement. Let computers do many of these repetitive tasks for us. Often we can
automate 10% to 70% of what we do on computers. All it requires is our willingness to recognize many tasks as repetitive and a desire to work smartly.
What can you automate?
Tens and hundreds of things that we all do on our computers.
1. Everyday task:
- Login to websites
- Filling Form
- Typing standard email replies especially in your workplace
- Opening few programs everyday
- Opening few documents that you use everyday
- Typing email signatures, pre-defined paragraphs or URL etc.
- Generating reports and formatting them
- Transferring or typing data from Excel to web form or from any one application to other
How much does all of these lead to? Possibly thousands of keystrokes and clicks, or more everyday.
2. Computer management:
Computers are an essential part of our everyday life and we want it to run at
optimal performance, virus and spyware free. Did you know that computer management can be automated?
- Automate spyware checking to run every few days
- Automate virus checking to run routinely
- Clean your temporary Internet files, recycle bin, temporary files, etc. every few days and gain more hard disk space
- Clear cookies every month or so for privacy
- Auto shutdown your machine every night or over the week-end to increase computer performance and save electricity.
A handful of software that you use currently may offer some kind of a feature to automate it. Check the software you are using to see if it provides these features.
Alternatively you can download the leading Computer Automation software, Workspace Macro Pro
or Automation Anywhere.
Workspace Macro Pro offers easy point and click wizard to automate more than 15 common tasks within minutes. In addition you can use its SMART recording
technology to record any other tasks that you perform for your business or at home and automate it. It works just like a VCR, record and replay with click of a button.
If you need something more advanced, Automation Anywhere is a powerful
automation software. Automation Anywhere can be used to automate many simple or complex business processes at work. Automation Anywhere
also offers easy record capability like Workspace Macro Pro but in addition it offers over 500 automation commands using which you can automate practically everything.
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