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by whitegrape 3755 days ago
Don't forget the great fun to be had with out-of-order SMS messages. I really don't get this app. All the macros advertised in the article are so basic I can do (or already do) them via voice activation, which is so quick I don't even need to grab and turn on my phone's display. For more interesting stuff I want to have block diagrams for flows and triggers (kind of like the Automate app actually). Another downside is the likely closed or at least very opaque nature of the commands. Dominoes is gross, I want anything else. No one wrote a plugin for Papa Johns, and I don't know how or it would take forever, and even if the Dominoes plugin was open source I doubt it would be very enlightening for writing one for another pizza place. Guess I'll go hungry. Or, how about something as dead-simple as recording a workflow with hooks for interaction like password entry so that I do it once myself and then afterwards it replays it, even alerting me if during a future replay things aren't as expected? That might not be allowed on the app store though, because god forbid our phones be general purpose computational devices.