The Secret New Windows Tool Nobody Is Talking About

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0:00 - Intro
2:42 - What I Wanted to Do
3:13 - Explaining the Interface
3:53 - How My Flow Works
6:00 - Making It Even More Advanced
6:36 - Dumb Things About It
7:36 - Final Notes

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[AntVenom]

This is awesome actually! My inner macro nerd brain is probably gonna go nuts with this feature.

[czebosak]

When I first saw this I thought "Oh, cool", but after seeing all of the features I can see how advanced this really is, you can create some really cool stuff with this

[Sam_Kush]

This video was the spark to a mind blowing new perspective into software possibilities.

In less than a week, I've spent uncountable hours learning and setting up my own flows. My results:

- Extract data from web and insert it into a video editor.
- Automatically upload videos to YouTube and select all details.
-Edit "End Screen" of older videos to match the most recent publication.

[Perseca]

You can schedule things to run automatically in intervals, you just have to be creative about it. The way I did it was to create a loop that checks whether the current datetime is less than or equal to a variable called ResultedDate, which is created when you use the Date time function "Add to datetime". I did that within a subflow and put the subflow within the loop. It works quite well for my purposes, you just have to make sure you're giving it enough time intervals to finish processing everything. But I was effectively able to create a hot folder using this method.

[bujin]

This is a really cool app. I used it a few months ago to set up a whole load of subscription reports on a report server (SSRS). It probably took me longer to set up the flow than if I would have just manually created all of the subscriptions, but I *hate* doing repetitive tasks! 🤣 I didn't know it was now built into Windows 11.

[davidpocielloquadrado]

☠☠
Microsoft: Only buisness can schedule flows.
Task scheduler, already in every windows machine: Allow me to introduce myself

[ShepherdPrnce]

This was so smart thio. Great advice for automation.

[whamer]

this is actually really interesting! I might have to give this a try, although I'd prefer an open source version that doesnt force me to log in to use it

[Heeter]

You could have just recorded yourself clicking "show more results" instead of find a JavaScript code that finds the button and clicks it :/

[pudu]

This tool is awesome and the possibilities are near endless, literally revolutionized my workplace

[Szklana]

I use this app weekly for my work. Great time (nad frustration of doing the same thing in a loop) saver!

[TheoWerewolf]

Just for the record, this has been around for a couple of years, but you had to go get it rather than have it just appear. This is basically the Windows answer to MacOS Automator - but in some ways better. The older versions really tried to use the web to store flows, constantly wanted to get you to upgrade to the business/pro version and could be a pain - pity it's still not able to launch a flow automatically.

[kennethralcock]

The first most useful thing that comes to my mind, is writing a flow for folder synchronization between two physical storage devices. For example if you wanted to back up a segment of your documents folder to a flash drive to take to work with you.

And thanks for posting this video by the way I had no idea this feature existed.

[thahrimdon]

This is EXACTLY WHAT I’VE BEEN LOOKING FOR!!

I host tons of servers for a game client called Plutonium. They recently added Black Ops zombies to their client, however it is very buggy.

One of these bugs is, if you host servers for that specific game, once some join joins and leaves, after about 30 minutes there will be an error where the server is un-joinable until restarted.

So instead of manually restarting my servers 4x/day, I’ll just use this! Thank you ThioJoe!

[macoud]

I have used it for about a year now. I did make two small edits to the flow you shared. One is just personal preference, swapping the "Launch new Google Chrome" actions with "Launch new Microsoft Edge" actions. Second one is setting it up so the browser closes after Excel does.

[goddamnit]

Wow, this might be one of the most important things I'll have seen this month, thank you for explaining and demonstrating it so well!

[AmilcarPino]

As a programmer that is Very Usefull Thank You !!

[curiouslyt]

Great video and thanks for talking about saymine! I always wondered what companies have my info.

[arkfish]

I'm SO glad this was added. It's a lot like the Shortcuts app on iOS. I hope they let you do things such as simulating user input (move mouse, click, type, scroll, etc)

[angelplayz]

I took your advice to heart and now my computer is a beast! All the advice you give is always on point! Thank you, Thio Joe!!! You are amazing!!!! 😂