Ask HN: What tasks do you regularly automate or use digital assistance for?

by vishalchandra on 1/29/2015, 6:45:30 PM with 3 comments
Do you regularly use Siri or any other digital assistant (e.g. Jarvis) or automation services like IFTTT, Alfred and for what ?

  • by dalerus on 1/30/2015, 7:24:34 PM

    I use Zapier a lot for automation.

    Auto sync my business contacts to Insightly, GitHub issues for an open source project to a Trello board,Gumroad contacts to my MailChimp list, to name a few

  • by adamkochanowicz on 1/29/2015, 6:51:42 PM

    The keyboard dictation feature in iOS is indispensable to me. It's about 90-95% accurate which is just enough for me to be able to generate any written communication faster.

  • by hotgoldminer on 1/29/2015, 6:46:58 PM

    Client followups. Deliverables.