HELP MARTIN OUT!
Posted: 26 Apr 2014 21:35
We all can easily agree that Automagic is a fantastic product. Why, then, do so few people know about it? And especially so few in relation to Tasker? It's because Tasker has absolutely the worst, most confusing, most incredibly user-unfriendly interface of any application I've ever seen, so of course Tasker gets countless amounts of free advertising in the form of tutorials, guides, forums etc..
We're the lucky ones. We either stumbled upon Automagic first, or realized later that Tasker really sucks bad, and that maybe there was an equally viable alternative, and did some more looking at automation apps.
But there are a lot of people out there who aren't as fortunate as us. They're the ones who value functionality, but have a little too much patience for their own good. They're willing to sit through endless hours (or days, or weeks) of tutorial videos and guides to be able to do some beginner stuff with their "helpful" automation software.
We need to stop the bleeding!
I've made a Google+ community, posted some tutorial videos, and even posted a few times on the Tasker community about Automagic. (They didn't like it much, but I did get a few of them to try it. Joao Dias too, of AutoVoice fame). But I'm pretty new and also don't have the time or really the need to become an Automagic expert. You guys who know how to do everything there is to do, and who like making fantasic custom widgets, need to make a few "video responses" to some of those innumerable Tasker tutorial videos, to demonstrate just how easy it is to accomplish all those same things with Automagic.
The accursed makers of that terrible, terrible, TERRIBLE Tasker interface are undoubtedly livin' large, raking in the bucks from countless new victims every day, because of all the free advertising their product gets. WE, the lucky people who get to use Automagic, owe it to Martin to spread the word a little bit about the fantastic user experience that we get to enjoy.
And maybe we can save some potential Tasker users a few headaches as well.
We're the lucky ones. We either stumbled upon Automagic first, or realized later that Tasker really sucks bad, and that maybe there was an equally viable alternative, and did some more looking at automation apps.
But there are a lot of people out there who aren't as fortunate as us. They're the ones who value functionality, but have a little too much patience for their own good. They're willing to sit through endless hours (or days, or weeks) of tutorial videos and guides to be able to do some beginner stuff with their "helpful" automation software.
We need to stop the bleeding!
I've made a Google+ community, posted some tutorial videos, and even posted a few times on the Tasker community about Automagic. (They didn't like it much, but I did get a few of them to try it. Joao Dias too, of AutoVoice fame). But I'm pretty new and also don't have the time or really the need to become an Automagic expert. You guys who know how to do everything there is to do, and who like making fantasic custom widgets, need to make a few "video responses" to some of those innumerable Tasker tutorial videos, to demonstrate just how easy it is to accomplish all those same things with Automagic.
The accursed makers of that terrible, terrible, TERRIBLE Tasker interface are undoubtedly livin' large, raking in the bucks from countless new victims every day, because of all the free advertising their product gets. WE, the lucky people who get to use Automagic, owe it to Martin to spread the word a little bit about the fantastic user experience that we get to enjoy.
And maybe we can save some potential Tasker users a few headaches as well.
This way you may send the script from AM to your computer, edit it and then send it back. Unfortunately I didn't find a good syntax highlighting for AM scripts.