Automaton Review (+ Free Licenses)

Automaton consists of 4 applications:

• AutoClips: Watches your clipboard and allows to recall previous pasteboard items. Create custom clip storages to hold all your snippets.
• AutoNotes: Quickly jot down notes, whenever, wherever.
• AutoTyper: Automatically expand short abbreviations to a longer text.
• AutoFiler: Automatically file away files according to rules. (Extremely powerful!)

AppInfos:

Download: Automaton
Current Version: 1.19
Operating System: 10.5
Price: 34.99€, each Auto* App 9.99$

Free Licenses & Discount

Those who comment until December, 3th 2009 on this entry telling us their favourite Automaton feature are able to win one of three licenses.

10 Responses to “Automaton Review (+ Free Licenses)”

1. Stefan says:

   11-22-2009 at 09:01 pm

   I like Autofiler best. It does a bit more than Hazel (except Appdelete). Autotyper is nice too, but I like the AppleScript capability of TextExpander, so it can convert tinyurls for me. Do these two apps interfere in any harmful way? Over at MuPromo you can get Automaton for $19,95.
2. Zettt says:

   11-22-2009 at 09:16 pm

   AutoFiler DOES Appdelete. Just activate the “trash example rules” :)
3. Zettt says:

   11-22-2009 at 09:17 pm

   You mean AutoTyper and TextExpander?! No, just turn off AutoTyper in the preferences and leave everything else running.
4. Stefan says:

   11-23-2009 at 07:29 am

   Great! So AutoFiler can replace Hazel for me. Regarding the harmful interactions: Yes, I meant TextExpander and AutoTyper. I know I can use Snow Leopard expansion, TextExpander and Typinator in parallel, I just don’t know, which one takes precedence when all use the same shortcut to expand. I guess AutoTyper works I a very similar way, so it has the same advantages and backdraws as “the others”.
5. Zettt says:

   11-23-2009 at 10:49 am

   Yes, it has the same drawbacks as “the others”.
   The developer is quite nice and answers usually pretty quickly (in my case). Maybe he’s interested in implementing that feature? ;)
6. Stefan says:

   11-24-2009 at 08:42 pm

   Ooops, I did it again.
7. Chris says:

   11-24-2009 at 10:30 pm

   Hi, this is the developer. I’m having a look in to see what’s going on here.

   I see that someone is saying that TextExpander has the Applescript feature, and Automaton doesn’t. Well we can’t have that! So I did a bit of work today and released Automaton / AutoTyper 1.21 which contains the same scripting abilities of TextExpander. See the documentation for details.
8. Stefan says:

   11-25-2009 at 12:52 am

   I just tried it. I copied the AppleScripts for tiny urls over from TextExpander and it works. Thanks a lot.
9. Stefan says:

   11-25-2009 at 10:30 am

   Watch out when removing folders from the config list. This nukes that folder. Thanks god I have TimeMachine working.
10. Stefan says:

    11-26-2009 at 02:04 pm

    I had the opportunity to test a beta version that supports regular expressions. That way Automaton solves the Two Caps problem for me.

    KAUFBEFEHL!!!