How to Automate Your Life (Ep. 194)

The Inforium

Thomas Frank and Martin Boehme

Personal Branding, Career, Productivity, Business, Learning, Lifehacking, College, University, Education, 101, Lifestyle Design, Work Smart, Class

4.8 • 998 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2018

⏱️ 67 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

When it comes to removing regular tasks from your life, you have four choices: Do, Delegate, Delete, or Automate. We talk a bit about that last one, including things we've automated in our own lives and how to find automation candidates in yours. Full show notes Things mentioned in this episode: Does Drinking Coffee Dehydrate You? TP-Link Smart Plug Philips Hue White Smart Bulb Starter Kit Etekcity Wireless Remote Light Switch Evernote (iOS | Android) Mise en place Asana (iOS | Android) Todoist (iOS | Android) Sikuli Script Lazy Innovation Chronicles: How I Got Paid to Watch Netflix xkcd - Is It Worth the Time? Clipboard Help + Spell aText Cooked documentary on Netflix MissionU Want more cool stuff? You can find all sorts of great tools at my Resources page. You can also get a free copy of my book, 10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades (While Studying Less), by staying up to date with the College Info Geek newsletter. Timestamps: 0:00:52 - Thoughts on tea and staying hydrated 0:09:22 - General view of automation 0:17:47 - Automating the studio setup 0:27:06 - Martin's automations for the website 0:29:42 - Sponsor: MissionU (Different approach to higher education) 0:34:50 - Martin's automations for the website (continued) 0:40:41 - How Tom automates his video making process 0:47:27 - Tom's favorite automation story from his internship 0:54:06 - Tips for tasks you might want to automate 1:04:09 - Conclusion If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! It's easy, you'll get new episodes automatically, and it also helps the show gain exposure :) You can also leave a review! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hey it's Thomas Frank. I've just got a quick note for you before we get into the show.
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0:33.4	What's up? Oh, hey there.
0:35.2	I had so many ideas for how I would start this podcast,
0:39.9	but my life is a good disaster in the last like five minutes.
0:44.8	You're a mess, huh? I am a complete mess.
0:47.2	For those of you just joining us, who was everyone actually.
0:51.6	I stupidly swung this microphone arm around and it hit my coffee and the
0:57.2	coffee went all over my iPad and well I did just learn that Apple builds good quality products that don't immediately die if you spill coffee on them.
1:07.0	Yes, apparently. That's good. If that would have short it out right before the episode recording, that would have not been that great honestly.
1:13.0	Like dead iPad mini.
1:15.0	Yay!
1:16.0	Another expense to put on.
1:17.0	And it had to be something with like milk and stuff in it.
1:20.0	Because the solids, when you spill like the non-transparent liquids, it's always a worse mess.
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