[inetsee]

What you need to do is determine how much time a script or tool will save you, how often you perform the function the script or tool will help you with, how long it will take you to develop the script or tool, and how long you are willing to wait for payback.

E.g. If it takes you an hour to develop a script, it saves you five minutes every time you use it, and you use it every day, then your break even point is 12 days. Alternatively, if you use the script once a month, then your break even doesn't come for a year. You have to decide whether to invest time now, to save yourself time in the future.

Developing a more general tool that might help others or turn into a revenue generating product, will almost certainly involve a much larger investment of your time, with an indeterminate reward. Making the decision to proceed with a project like that is a much more complex calculation.

[bluepanda_]

Thanks for quantifying it, that will be useful.