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Teaching Jevie a task

Show Jevie a task once and it does it your way from then on: say watch me, do it yourself, then done watching.

FreeMacChrome extension

Choose an example to copy it, then try it in Jevie.

Use it How it works Limits Where it's kept

Use it

Teach it

watch meAsks what you will show it. The day after you first set Jevie up, the palette offers this once: Show me once. I'll do the rest.
watch me open the top 3 hacker news commentslet me show you how to open the top 3 hacker news commentsJevie watches while you do it
done watchingthat's itWhat you did becomes a task it keeps
cancel watchingnever mindStops watching and keeps nothing

Run it again

open the top 3 hacker news commentsDone the same way, in your own Chrome
open the top 5 hacker news commentsA number you said becomes a number it changes

Keep track

what have i taught youtaught tasksEvery task you taught it, ready to play
show the program for open the top 3 hacker news commentsIts steps as a file you can read and edit
forget taught open the top 3 hacker news commentsThe task is gone

How it works

While watching, Jevie notes what you do in Chrome (pages opened, links and buttons pressed, fields filled) and which app is in front. On done watching that becomes a short program, named the way you will ask for it, that plays back the same steps with no guessing.

Before acting on a page, Jevie checks it still looks the way it did when you showed it; a sign-in or a redesign stops the task with nothing pressed. Anything that sends, posts, buys or types is asked about the first time, then kept as approved.

Limits

Chrome and the app in front only, never an incognito window, and never a password.
Only the number in the sentence changes, from 1 to 30; playback needs the Chrome extension.
The check before acting sends a picture of the page to Typesafe and needs your own key; without it the task runs unchecked.

Where it's kept

Each taught task as ~/.jevie/taught/<name>.js, yours to read and edit.

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

Updated 6 November 2026 · Something wrong or missing? Tell us