As mentioned in my earlier essay: after suffering major internet outage where I live, it's made me realise just how dependent I am and I assume many people are on being online.

I covered how for tools we want things that work installed locally and offline. This also is where your Bullet Journal/paper based systems come in handy, and they're even more robust as they're guarded against power failure too.

This should also apply to anything you want automated that you also want control over locally or at least be able to access.

There are actually many more automation solutions on the Mac compared to Windows, at least as far as easier to use and set up. To begin with I will only cover the first suggestion that requires no investment.

Shortcuts for Mac. Depending on the age of your computer the latest available Mac OS versions have a built in automation system called Shortcuts. This is the same application developed for iPhone and iPad so if you are familiar from mobile devices this will be very easy to pick up and even copy the same automations.

There will be device specific functionality and restrictions. Such as the ability to run scripts on the Mac but you won't be able to use mobile only features. This is a no code solution (or low code as you can write and run your own scripts too) that is all about setting up actions and triggers in a linear block design tool. More and more apps over time have and will be adding their own built in actions to the lists of options you can choose from.