Automation

Alarm Clock Pro

• Description: Time-based launcher and alarm app; can trigger scripts, open apps, and send reminders on a schedule.
• Price: Paid

Automate Your Homebrew Backups

• Description: Workflow post on automating Homebrew backups and using Cork, Taphouse, and Updatest to manage app reinstalls.
• Price: Free (Homebrew)
• Workflow Tips: Yes — step-by-step guide to backing up and restoring Homebrew app lists.

Better Touch Tool

• Description: Highly configurable automation tool for trackpad gestures, keyboard shortcuts, touch bar, and more; author's favorites described.
• Price: Paid
• Workflow Tips: Yes — covers specific BTT configurations and workflows.

Connect Your Mac Apps with IFTTT

• Description: How to use IFTTT web service to connect Mac apps and automate cross-service workflows; goes beyond KM/Hazel/BTT.
• Price: Freemium (IFTTT)
• Workflow Tips: Yes — examples of connecting Mac apps via IFTTT.

Desktop Workflow Apps

• Description: Roundup of apps that turn the Mac desktop into an information dashboard, launcher, and workflow hub.
• Price: Varies

Enhance Apple Shortcuts with These Apps

• Description: Reviews apps that extend Apple Shortcuts with additional triggers and actions beyond what Apple provides.
• Price: Varies
• Workflow Tips: Yes — real-world examples of Shortcuts-based automations.

Guilt Free Digital Media Pipeline Automation

• Description: Full media download and management pipeline using open-source tools for legal media acquisition.
• Price: Free / Open Source
• Workflow Tips: Yes — complete pipeline setup walkthrough.

Hazel: Quick Tips for App Installation

• Description: Shows how to automate Mac app installation from ZIP and DMG downloads using Hazel rules.
• Price: Paid (Hazel)
• Workflow Tips: Yes — specific Hazel rule setup for DMG/ZIP auto-install.

How to Check All Apps for Homebrew Availability

• Description: Guide for identifying which of your installed apps are available as Homebrew casks for easier updates.
• Price: Free
• Workflow Tips: Yes — command-line steps for checking Homebrew availability.

Image Workflow with CleanShot X, Clop, Clotski, NameQuick and Hazel

• Description: Full image processing workflow integrating five tools: capturing, compressing, managing, naming, and filing images automatically.
• Price: Paid (mostly)
• Workflow Tips: Yes — complete multi-app image workflow for bloggers/writers.

Keyboard Cowboy

• Description: Free and open-source automation app for setting up Mac automations without paying for Keyboard Maestro or Better Touch Tool.
• Price: Free / Open Source

Keyboard Maestro: Tips for the Automation Curious

• Description: Deep tips post for Keyboard Maestro newcomers covering real-world use cases and getting started after the Black Friday sale.
• Price: Paid — $36
• Workflow Tips: Yes — extensive use case examples and beginner tips.

Keysmith

• Description: Automation app that records actions in any app and lets you replay them via menu or keyboard shortcut; compared with Keyboard Maestro.
• Price: Paid

Mac Automation Roundup

• Description: Overview of major Mac automation apps with guidance on learning curves and best entry points.
• Price: Varies

My Stream Deck Setup for macOS Automation

• Description: Detailed walkthrough of using the Elgato Stream Deck hardware with macOS automation apps.
• Price: Paid (hardware)
• Workflow Tips: Yes — specific Stream Deck button configurations and integrations.

A New World of Automation Possibilities

• Description: Explores remote automation possibilities using home server setup when away from the desk.
• Price: Varies
• Workflow Tips: Yes — real-world remote automation use cases.

Pieoneer

• Description: Pie menu app with three modes: app switcher, clipboard history picker, and configurable action menu.
• Price: Paid

Pie Menu

• Description: Radial menu app that exposes application menu bar commands in a circular layout via hotkey.
• Price: Paid

Radial 4

• Description: Rapidly evolving pie-menu automation hub supporting keyboard shortcuts, scripts, Apple Shortcuts, AppleScript, shell scripts, and Keyboard Maestro.
• Price: Paid
• Workflow Tips: Yes — covers using Radial as an automation hub with various trigger types.

RapiDMG

• Description: Automates mounting and installing apps from DMG downloads; integrates with Hazel-style workflows.
• Price: Paid

Scheduler for Mac

• Description: Free automation utility for launching apps, running scripts, and triggering actions on a schedule.
• Price: Free

Shortery

• Description: Adds 17 event-based triggers to Apple Shortcuts on Mac, filling the gap left by iOS-only Shortcuts automation.
• Price: Paid

Stop Making CRON Jobs

• Description: Opinion/how-to piece explaining why launchd is better than cron on macOS and how to use Lingon for proper task scheduling.
• Price: Free (launchd/Lingon)
• Workflow Tips: Yes — explains launchd setup vs cron.

Task Til Dawn

• Description: Free Mac automation app for scheduling tasks and launching items with time-based triggers.
• Price: Free

Time Based App Launchers

• Description: Roundup of apps that can launch other apps, scripts, or workflows at scheduled times.
• Price: Varies

10 Tiny Mac Workflow Tweaks that Save Me Time Every Day

• Description: Ten small automation and workflow improvements including Raycast, Keyboard Maestro, and system settings tweaks.
• Price: Varies (mostly free)
• Workflow Tips: Yes — ten specific workflow improvements with instructions.

Affordable Alternatives to Hazel

• Description: Compares Hazel alternatives for rule-based file automation at lower price points.
• Price: Varies

Opening Batches of Apps, Documents, Folders and Web Pages

• Description: Reviews several methods for batch-opening project workspaces including Shortcuts, Automator, and dedicated apps.
• Price: Varies
• Workflow Tips: Yes — multiple methods for workspace batch-launch.