oh didn't expect to see you here so early this is how as a programmer I
automate my morning write a script to get dressed
there that's better I need some coffee I can just write a script for that right
there we go oh perfect temperature too all right all in a day's work [Music]
hey friends welcome back to my video as you know I love to automate everything from workflows to
my morning to anything I can I try and automate it it's the programmer in me I'm inherent to it
and today we are going to do just that you know I love Logitech products I've been using them
for years now you've seen them in all my coding tutorials and I recently picked up the new MX
Keys s combo and I've been chef's kiss loving it mainly one of the main things that I've really
been loving is the smart actions that I've been creating with them these are smart actions that
you can literally customize your workflow from pressing certain buttons on your keyboard or
your mouse whatever you choose to do and it will open up say your terminal or specific URLs you can
customize it to whatever you want I literally have a Smart Action to pull code from a repository for
me and today we are going to go through some of my favorite smart actions that really help automate
my workflow when it comes to productivity comes to coding and just everything life and in turn I get
a lot of time back let's get automating all right morning setup this is the most important set you
asked me other than of course the one thing that is yet to be automated I'm sure it will be soon
I just need to invent it is injecting coffee into my veins but until then that's okay you
know at least we can automate the coffee maker more important though you can see here on screen
I have up my lodgy options plus and then also too you can add a device I already have my two
devices connected though also too I really like as a side note you can see how much battery is
left in each or energy is left in each because I'm always guilty of leaving it to last minute
if you go up into the right hand corner you can see here smart actions and when I click on it you
can see here I already set up a morning setup but I erased my other setups and I'm going to modify
this one because I really want to show you how I set up or automate my workflow alright so let's
go into let's start by going into templates and this was a great place for me to start because
it really shows some examples of preset templates that you can use and I mean it's super important
and key to customize them but this is a great place to start if you're like I don't know what
I want I don't even know what I want to automate yet so you can scroll through here and see some
of them one that is really interesting too of course is reply with chat GPT uh pull project
changes which is super useful and we'll dive into in a bit here open URLs and then also too you
can create right from scratch so for my first one though for morning setup I'm actually going to go
to manage where the one that I created is already set up and let's go to here click on it and what
I have set up right now is the if and this is really I love how they set this up because it's
very uh programmer focused meaning there's that if this happens then do this kind of like in code if
else statements so it's super easy to use clearly I have not had enough copy yet so if we go into my
if statement this is how I set it up in my mouse here you can see right now I have the back button
because it's super it's just I did what is user and intuitive to me what I can easily remember
so I clicked on back button to start with and then for the keyboard I did the brightness the morning
setup the brightness uh key the reason I did this was because it looks like a sunshine and it's
so let's go confirm trigger now right now what I have is if those two uh that sequence is set
in motion so the back button and then the brightness button what will happen is Google
Chrome will open up now I do want some other things in my morning routine to open up so
let's go into application and you can see here all the applications that I have so let's scroll
down a bit to visual studio code there we go and once again you can see do you want to bring it to
the foreground close there's many different things you can do with these applications
so I like how it's very customizable in this case I want to open the application
firm so once this sequence is in motion it will open Google Chrome for me and it will also open
the application for visual studio code now when I'm starting my morning I would say well let's
scroll let's see if there's anything else I typically do those are usually the main
two things that I need opened but let's go back to application see what else if there's anything else
I usually open the terminal first thing so we don't need that let's do I think that's a good
way to kind of start my morning is simple to the point having those two applications set up all
right so let's put this into motion so picture this going back to I wake up first thing in
the morning get my coffee come into the office and then after I do these two sequences of the
back button and then the brightness button I automate my workflow try it out confirm
all right so I'm going to press uh the back button followed by the brightness button
and and see here it opened up in the other tab my other screen but these two you can see now I
my Google Chrome opened up in the background here and then the Forefront which is my vs code so this
is super user friendly and it just makes it such a fun way to kind of start your day okay next up is
code time uh I think that that's what I'm calling it anyways I don't know if that's actually the
term but it's code time and for this you know I've already had my morning kind of set up I
usually do a bit of meetings in the morning also to responding to emails so then by mid morning
early afternoon I can focus on writing some code so in templates again I'm going to actually start
this time with let's start with open URLs because I want to open a specific URL so I'm going to
start with this template and then modify it to to my own personal so let's go if adding the
trigger is always the most hardest thing to do in my opinion it's kind of like when you're naming a
variable it's like okay what what do I do it's like the simplest application or the simplest
actions are always the most difficult so let's do forward because we're Forward Thinking and on the
keyboard I'm gonna do mute because when I'm coding I need it to be quiet I need peace so forward mute
I'm not getting creative here so the first thing I want to do is bring up GitHub and
I actually was thinking when I was customizing this I was like what URL do I want to open in
GitHub is it my like a specific project or is it my profile but I'm actually going to do github.com
I'm always logged into it and the reason for that is because I not only have my personal GitHub or
my personal projects on GitHub but I also have my work project on like my day job on GitHub as well
so I wanted to be kind of generic that I see the feed and also to well let's just pull it up here
so this is what I want to open up um so you can see here my top repositories I also can see some
trending repositories recommendations and then two I have my stack bit which is where I work and I
can open up that as well so let's copy this copy and close actually now let's go into our then so
bring to the foreground Google Chrome so be the first thing that we see which yes and then after
a three second delay we will have a new browser Tab and then we will open up right now github.com
and then I also well right now they have another one which is gmail.com
and for this actually I want to open up one of my favorite websites right now it's called daily.dev
highly recommend you check it out it's really cool they always have like trending stories
um I love it all right so let's go confirm [Music]
start with
I think that feels good all right so now let's do it so we go forward mute [Music]
all right and you can see here it opened up GitHub and then a few seconds later it opened up daily
gem so this is really great um and it's super simple kind of getting into the there is something
about routine when you are doing a routine you have a routine it just makes you feel like your
mindset Gets In the Zone I'm sure there's studies on this action I should include some stats here
around it but this is a great way all right I hope you enjoyed going through this video automating
some of my life well more so my workflow with me it is so fun I just think being able to really
customize your actions and your workflow is so key to success and I know it sounds kind of silly like
you know having these uh tasks for smaller tasks like opening your browser but the significance in
having a routine when you are doing this when it's the same URL opens every day the same app
opens all the time it really is the consistency part of it that is so huge as well not only from
a time saving aspect but also to just getting in the Rhythm it's one of those things that when you
do uh what is it when you do the same kind of set of actions day in and day out your brain knows is
triggered as to what's going to happen for example before I typically start work as you know this is
my Home Office I work from home I'll always make sure to get out in the morning whether it be to
a workout class whether it be for a walk but that is key for me because it tells my brain okay this
is kind of the Rhythm and flow we are going to get into for the day it doesn't just start by
walking into my office same kind of thing when I use these smart actions it's not just something
that I use once in a while I use them every day to be consistent and then also to especially with the
coding ones the coding setup ones when I do those smart actions it just kind of gets my mindset into
the frame of okay now it's Focus time now is coding 10. I linked the MX keyboard and mouse
Down Below in the description so make sure to go check them out and if you haven't already hit that
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you can automate I need I want to hear all the smart actions you automate with okay bye everyone
[Music] thank you