Personal Automation Audit
Finds the tasks worth automating for one person, and the far larger set that should simply stop.
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Running it, start to finish
- Run the stop-month test on every repeated task first.
- Simplify what survives before automating anything.
- Build the smallest one first and add a failure check.
What you get back
The output this produces, every time.
- Puts elimination first, which is free and usually removes more than automation would save.
- Shows the annual time saved, which is frequently smaller than the task feels.
- Refuses to automate anything whose failure you would not notice.
Getting better results
Where this usually goes wrong, and how to avoid it.
- Do the stop-month test. Ask what would happen if you simply stopped for a month. For a surprising share of repeated tasks the answer is nothing.
- Count the maintenance. A personal automation against a service you do not control will break, and debugging it costs more than the task ever did.
- Start small. Beginning with the most complex candidate is the standard way a weekend is spent and the project abandoned.
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