A small but growing collection of macros to increase your productivity when…writing macros… 😃

[sming]

Hi folks,

I assume that folks have automated the writing of macros before right? Automating the automating? Meta automating perhaps?

Well, either way, I’ve written some simple, but useful macros that automate adding macro code that I find make writing over and over (called “toil” in the trade - see this part of Google’s SRE handbook on the deleterious effects of Toil), such as :

• Add a delay
• Add an if statement
• Add UI interaction

I use a gesture based system called Swiftly Switch (there are many to choose from) to conveniently execute these "meta macros" let's call them. So, for example, when I need to add a UI interaction, I swipe inwards from the lower right hand side of my screen and tap the icon for that function (in Swiftly Switch) and the macro does the rest it pauses after it has added the first Clause to the estate. I'll try and do a screen recording to demonstrate all this as that far more communicative than all my verbiage lol.

Not all of my meta macros are published, so I will get on with that, And there will be new ones coming. Here are the couple already published. Constructive feedback is always welcome!

• Add wait statement to macro [in Macrodroid itself]
• Add if clause to macro [in Macrodroid app]

If anyone is struggling a little I'm more than willing to help them write their own metamacro for speeding up their macro writing.

Cheers y'all,
Pete

 

[sming]

Here's a 30s screen recording of the meta macros in action via Swiftly Switch.
Cheers.

macrodroid meta macros demo

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[Winny57]

What would be nice is to have the list of all the triggers and all the possible actions in order to integrate them into an AI to generate a .macro

 

[Endercraft]

What would be nice is to have the list of all the triggers and all the possible actions in order to integrate them into an AI to generate a .macro

At this point why not turn the app into a single screen where you say what you want to do and an AI creates it?
That just removes all the fun and learning when you create macros...

 

[Winny57]

At this point why not turn the app into a single screen where you say what you want to do and an AI creates it?
That just removes all the fun and learning when you create macros...

It's true

It's like one of my projects, I've already finished debugging my site and I hope I can tackle this

 

[sming]

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What would be nice is to have the list of all the triggers and all the possible actions in order to integrate them into an AI to generate a .macro

Like your thinking!!! Just let me know when you've got it working yes?

 

[sming]

At this point why not turn the app into a single screen where you say what you want to do and an AI creates it?
That just removes all the fun and learning when you create macros...

Like quite a few of you fellows I'm sure, I am a professional software engineer and things like GitHub co-pilot are % making this a very present, very in your face, reality. like RN.

It's been kind of trippy, and a bit frightening at the same time when on several occasions, I've typed a couple of tokens of a statement onto a new line and and an auto-complete suggestion of my entire thoughts for the next 20 lines of code plop out before my eyes, like my pooter just damn well read my mind!

 

[ARME]

I've Just made a feature request. See if you like It

FAVOURITE TRIGGERS/ACTIONS/CONSTRAINTS

It would be useful if you could add small floating button on one side of the screen that when clicked shows the favourites triggers/actions/comstraints (empty circles on the image). If you long click it open the serrimgs of the festure where you can add or remove favourites. When you click a...

www.macrodroidforum.com

 

[sming]

Very nice. I’ve wondered why this feature isn’t present many, many times