Keep it running

Automations

Hand Jevie work that repeats: any sentence run on a schedule, telling you every time or only when something you care about changes.

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What it looks likeUse itHow it worksLimitsWhere it's kept

Use it

On a schedule

• check the build every 20 minutesEvery N minutes, hours or days
• open my dashboards every morningDaily, or every day at 8:30
• weekdays at 8:30 check my calendarWorking days only
• every monday at 9 summarize my inboxOne day a week

Only when it matters

• check this page every hour and tell me when it changesTold only on a change
• every hour tell me if the price is below 40Told when it crosses
• every morning tell me anything new on hacker newsOnly new items
• goal: keep downloads tidyKept true, worked on only when it is not

Manage them

• find that on hacker news as well and add it to the morning routineChange one in plain words
• what automations do I haveshow my automationsThe list, pause or resume from it
• stop the weather oneresume the weather onedelete the weather oneBy what it does

How it works

Say what to do and when, and Jevie runs it on that schedule, remembering what it saw last time so it can tell you only what is new or different. This means the page in front when you made it, not whatever is open later.

Notices from everything that keeps running share one quiet budget: when many arrive at once they are gathered into a single notice rather than dropped. A run that keeps failing pauses itself and tells you.

Limits

• Schedules are simple: minutes, hours, days, weekdays, a named weekday, mornings; not first Tuesday of the month.
• Runs happen while the Mac is awake; for runs while it sleeps, see cloud watches.

Where it's kept

~/.jevie/automations.json.

What it looks like

Drawn by Jevie's own renderer with made-up data.

In Jevie, help automation answers from this page as you type.

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Updated 23 October 2026 · Something wrong or missing? Tell us