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-as of [3 APRIL 2024]–
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-‘automator’ is an ‘application’ developed by ‘apple incorporated’ for ‘macOS’ that implements ‘point-and-click’ (or ‘drag-and-drop’) creation of ‘workflows’ for automating ‘repetitive tasks’ into ‘batches’ for quicker ‘alteration’, thus saving ‘time’ + ‘effort’ over ‘human intervention’ to manually change each ‘file’ separately-
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*’automator’ enables the repetition of ‘tasks’ across a wide variety of ‘programs’, including…*
‘FINDER’
‘SAFARI’
‘CALENDAR’
‘CONTACTS’
(and many more…)
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(it can also work with ‘3rd-party applications’ such as…)
‘microsoft office’
‘adobe photoshop’
‘pixelmator’
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(the ‘icon’ features a ‘robot’ holding a ‘pipe’)
(a reference to ‘pipelines’)
(a ‘computer science’ term for ‘connected data workflows’)
(‘automator’ was first released with ‘mac OS X tiger’ (v 10.4))
(‘automator’ provides a ‘graphical user interface’ for automating tasks without knowledge of ‘programming/scripting languages’)
(tasks can be recorded as they are performed by the ‘user’ or can be selected from a ‘list’)
(the ‘output’ of the previous action can become the ‘input’ to the next action)
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(‘automator’ comes with a library of ‘actions’…)
‘file renaming’
‘finding linked images’
‘creating a new mail message’
(and so on…)
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(these ‘actions’ act as ‘individual steps’ in a ‘workflow document’)
(a ‘workflow document’ is used to carry out ‘repetitive tasks’)
(‘workflows’ can be ‘saved’ + ‘reused’)
(‘unix command line scripts’ + ‘AppleScripts’ can also be invoked as ‘actions’)
(the ‘actions’ are linked together in a ‘workflow’)
(the ‘workflow’ can be saved as an ‘application’, ‘workflow file’, or a ‘contextual menu item’)
(options can be set when the ‘workflow’ is created or when the ‘workflow’ is run)
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(a ‘workflow file’ created in ‘automator’ is saved in…)
/users/{user name}/library/services
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(the icon for ‘automator’ features a robot known as “Otto the Automator”*
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*SKETCHES*
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