5 Python Automation Scripts That Save Me Hours Every Week

5 Python Automation Scripts That Save Me Hours Every Week Practical recipes you can steal and customize today We all have those repetitive tasks that eat into our productive hours. The meeting notes that need formatting. The logs that need parsing. The files that need organizing. After years of writing automation scripts, I've distilled my collection down to the ones I actually use daily. Here are five automation recipes that genuinely save me hours every week—complete with code you can copy and customize. 1. Auto-Organize Downloads Folder My downloads folder used to be a graveyard of random files. This script watches the folder and automatically sorts files into subdirectories based on type. import os import shutil from pathlib import Path from watchdog.observers import Observer from watchdog.events import FileSystemEventHandler DOWNLOAD_DIR = Path . home () / " Downloads " FILE_CATEGORIES = { " Images " : [ " .jpg " , " .jpeg " , " .png " , " .gif " , " .webp " , " .svg " ], " Docume