The other day I was stuck having to copy, edit, paste, copy, edit, paste stuff from one document to another. No way around it, no elegant import / export process, my brain just flipping burgers while my fingers did their work, occasionally missing or reversing a step out of thoughtless boredom.

Although computers have come a long way, there are still plenty of seemingly simple, rote tasks which people undertake which could be automated. You might say, "Well, screw that, just do it this better way!" or "Bah, redesign the system to eliminate such repetition!"

While these suggestions are fine and dandy, things like budgets and priorities aren't usually amenable to such initiatives, particularly for stressed people who have a lot going on in their life outside of the office and just want to get things done (or rather, want things to GET done).

Thus, I suggest some means of "teaching" your computer to proceed, intelligently, with some mundane task, then afterwards letting you finalize changes, saving time and effort. More than a macro, greater than a mere script, an evolutionary step beyond AutoHotKey, indeed a system which can interface with and manipulate a system in the same context as a human user, towards the same goal.

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