![]() The one I use at the moment is called Axife Mouse Recorder, and it's free demo. And while they can't transcribe your handwritten notes or turn them into the polished prose of the novel you're trying to write 1, they can record your keyboard and mouse actions, help you fine tune them, and play them back in a loop. If only there were some program which could watch you do some thankless task on another program, once, then do the same thing, much quicker and without errors for a thousand iterations, while you go and do something interesting. The tedium of adding up a column of figures with a pencil has been replaced with the tedium of typing in a much longer column of figures, which are magically totted up by the spreadsheet. The other half is to help us do the things we did beforehand, but faster, better, or just more.Īll of which is a bit odd really, because most of the things we do sitting at a computer are repetitive, mindless tasks that require great precision and patience but no imagination or choices. Half the point of technology is to do away with that kind of drudgery. Exactly the kind which humans are no good at, and make working life unbearable. The kind that require great precision and patience but no imagination or choices. Computers are good at repetitive, mindless tasks.
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