{"id":5134,"date":"2019-02-16T12:08:32","date_gmt":"2019-02-16T12:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/?p=5134"},"modified":"2019-02-16T12:08:32","modified_gmt":"2019-02-16T12:08:32","slug":"videos-on-workflow-processes-for-code-capture-and-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/?p=5134","title":{"rendered":"Videos on Workflow processes for code capture and quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to link a couple of things I&#8217;ve been learning and doing and highlight them in videos.\u00a0 In some demonstrations seeing is better than listing<\/p>\n<h2>Vid 1. Screen Capture &amp; Optical Character Recognition (OCR)<\/h2>\n<p>In this video I wanted to show how to use screen capture process to get code from YouTube and other sites via screen capture and convert to Characters to speed up copying coding longhand.<\/p>\n<p>Along the way I want to highlight some other productivity processes that I am using that make me more organised and productive.<\/p>\n<p><iframe data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CPKftB-4-pU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<iframe data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/53oebLcJrZA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In the video above these are the programmes I&#8217;m using:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Febooti Automation Workshop (free version)<\/li>\n<li>GreenShot Screen capture\u00a0 (free)<\/li>\n<li>Google Keep (free)<\/li>\n<li>Notepad++ (free)<\/li>\n<li>Firefox Google Keep Open in New Tab extension (free)<\/li>\n<li>PyWinContext (free)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Image management<\/h3>\n<p>Folder structure, 2 image folders, say:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Today Images Folder,<\/li>\n<li>Yesterday Images Folder<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Greenshot images opens screenshot in editor and setup to save images to Today Images Folder. The images I usually use in Posts in my WordPress site, so I upload them from this folder.<\/p>\n<p>I use Automation Workshop in Manual mode with 2 operations:<\/p>\n<p>Operation 1: Delete all images in Yesterday Images Folder.<\/p>\n<p>Operation2: Move all images from Today Images Folder to Yesterday Images Folder.<\/p>\n<p>That way I have an empty folder for all my new images and dont have to hunt through to find any. I keep one days worth of images in case I need one of them, then I delete them all.<\/p>\n<p>I can trigger Automation Workshop\u00a0 for the first action on Logout of computer at night, and 2nd process at login in morning.\u00a0 I generally just run them manually.<\/p>\n<h3>YouTube (or Image) screen capture code &amp; other text\u00a0 and convert to Characters<\/h3>\n<p>If I&#8217;m trying to capture code from a YouTube video I pause the video where the code is, zoom in with Firefox Zoom Level and then take a screenshot of only the code with GreenShot.<\/p>\n<p>I then use the &#8220;Google Keep Open in New Tab&#8221;\u00a0 Firefox Extension. In Google Keep I open a new Picture note and upload the screenshot (from the &#8220;Today Images Folder,&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>I then use the &#8220;Get Text From Image&#8221;\u00a0 to copy the text.<\/p>\n<p>It is usually not exact but you can check the text\/code with the image above and edit to match.<\/p>\n<p>If it is code, you can copy the code to Notepad++ and save it with the code&#8217;s extension (eg .html, .js etc) and Notepad++ will usually check the code syntax for obvious errors which it will highlight.<\/p>\n<p>Then use the code where you intended to use it.<\/p>\n<h3>PyWinContext<\/h3>\n<p>This part was just highlighting an interesting tool. Hopefully people will use and explore it and share code on it. I have a post on it <a href=\"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/2019\/02\/15\/free-manager-for-custom-context-menus-in-windows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Vid2. Workflow for getting an online estimate and Quote for a service<\/h2>\n<p>In this video I want to show a part process of showing how I can automate sending forma l quote for service after interested people have explored costs of service with estimate sheet.<\/p>\n<p><iframe data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/53oebLcJrZA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In the video above these are the programmes I&#8217;m using:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Firefox (free) -Bookmark link properties &#8220;Keyword&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Google Forms (free)<\/li>\n<li>Google Sheets (free)<\/li>\n<li>Document Studio- Google Sheets Addon (free version)- An alternative is AutoCrat\u00a0 Addon (free)<\/li>\n<li>WordPress plugin &#8220;Calculated Fields Form&#8221; (free version)<\/li>\n<li>Gmail (free )<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Firefox keyword<\/h3>\n<p>Using Firefox keyword where I abbreviate URL code to 2 letters and type this into address bar. Quick way to open web pages you commonly use. Saves hunting through lots of bookmarks.<\/p>\n<h3>Google forms linked to Sheets with Document Studio add-on<\/h3>\n<p>To get formal quote for a service, in the video, my panorama service is being demonstrated, people interested in the service can fill out an online Google Form. They get an email response with a PDF attachment with a formal quote for the service.<\/p>\n<p>The form populates a linked google sheet. The google Sheet has an Add-on &#8220;Document Studio (although AutoCrat could be used also) that takes the information in the sheet, using a sheet template , it populates the template and merges the data from the linked form sheet to create a Quote which it saves in a new folder it creates specific to that query.<\/p>\n<p>It also sends an email (Gmail) to the email address with the quote attached.<\/p>\n<p>It also sends me an email (Gmail) of the quote as well, so that i know there has been an enquiry for the service.<\/p>\n<p>This process is completely automated after the form is filled out and sent.<\/p>\n<p>See these posts for process<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"title\"><strong><a title=\"Creating free embedded automated quote for service with Google Docs\" href=\"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/2019\/02\/07\/creating-free-embedded-automated-quote-for-service-with-google-docs\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Creating free embedded automated quote for service with Google Docs<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title\"><a title=\"Creating embedded form with alternative choices in Google Docs\" href=\"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/2019\/02\/08\/creating-embedded-form-with-alternative-choices-in-google-docs\/\" rel=\"bookmark\"><strong>Creating embedded form with alternative choices in Google Docs<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Estimate cost of services<\/h3>\n<p>Google forms do not do calculated fields on the form. So you could possibly embed a spreadsheet into a post to do some calculations or use &#8220;Calculated Fields Form&#8221; WordPress plugin to give interested people a way to get an estimate for the service. See this post <a title=\"Calculated Fields Form &amp; Sidebar Image links\" href=\"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/2019\/02\/13\/calculated-fields-form-sidebar-image-links\/\" rel=\"bookmark\"><strong>Calculated Fields Form &amp; Sidebar Image links<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The free version does not let you save the estimates but you can always do a screenshot to capture the information.<\/p>\n<h2>End comment<\/h2>\n<p>The cam studio played up again and I had to reboot the computer to get it to work for the 2nd vid. I had previously downloaded Flashback Express recorder but it saves its files\u00a0 as .fbr extension. On trying to save a copy (export I think) to .avi it took ages, so I stopped it and went back to CamStudio. I will have to keep looking for a simple, reliable free video creation tool.<\/p>\n<p>I think the video is a good way to link the ideas of the processes and show their effectiveness far better than writing posts. I think they are worth doing in specific cases.<\/p>\n<p>The 2nd video shows me I&#8217;m only part way through that process and need to see about the next parts of the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to link a couple of things I&#8217;ve been learning and doing and highlight them in videos.\u00a0 In some demonstrations seeing is better than listing Vid 1. Screen Capture &amp; Optical Character Recognition (OCR) In this video I wanted to show how to use screen capture process to get code from YouTube and other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[204,265,42,29,27],"tags":[301,175,228,305,300,303,256,255,299,209,302,297,298,304,295,296],"class_list":["post-5134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-automation","category-google-docs","category-productivity","category-web","category-wordpress","tag-autocrtat-sheets-addon","tag-automation","tag-automation-workshop","tag-calculated-fields-form-plugin","tag-document-studio-sheeds-addon","tag-firefox","tag-google-keep","tag-google-sheets","tag-goolge-forms","tag-greenshot","tag-notepad","tag-optical-character-recognition","tag-prioductivity","tag-pywincontext","tag-video-s-of-processes","tag-videos-of-workflows"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/2019-02-17-13_01_54-Edit-Post-\u2039-Vast-\u2014-WordPress.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/2019-02-17-13_01_54-Edit-Post-\u2039-Vast-\u2014-WordPress.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Max Drake","author_link":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}