Often when working in business, and sometimes in a personal situation as well, we will be asked to perform periodic, repetitive and routine computer-related tasks. These routines such as copying files ...

A lot of what we do with computers is repetitive. We put files in folders, we send form replies to emails, we make commits to git when we save files, we trigger tests when we build an application.

If you want to schedule emails, Microsoft Outlook has limits. You can delay a message, but Outlook must be open for it to work. There’s also no way to create a conditional scheduled date. For instance ...