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An automation does a job for you without you starting it each time: it asks an Agent to do something, runs one of your saved workflows, or runs a shell command. It runs on a schedule (once, or again and again), when something happens such as a new email or a file in a folder, or when you start it by hand. Use one for a morning news brief, a weekly plan, or a price check. Each run starts its own conversation, and the result shows up in the automation. You can also have Enconvo notify you on your Mac or send the result to an IM chat. In the app, the Automations view calls each automation a task, as in New task.
The Scheduled view with a weekday morning task: its schedule and next runs, instruction, results, and notifications in one panel

The Scheduled view: tasks on the left, a task's details on the right.

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Set up an automation by chatting

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Open Automations

In the Chat Window sidebar, select Automations, then New task.
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Say what to do and when

Describe the task and its timing in the composer, for example “Every weekday at 8:00, brief me on the most important AI news in five bullets with links.” Or pick a starter under Start from an idea, such as Morning briefing or Plan my week, which fills the composer for you to adjust before sending.If you have saved workflows, a few of them appear under Run a workflow on a schedule. Pick one to fill in a request that runs that workflow every day at 9:00, then change the time or add input values before sending.
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Check the draft

Enconvo sets up the task, shows it as a card in the chat, and replies with when it will run, in plain words and your local time. If you leave out the time, it picks a sensible one and says so. It asks a question only when the task can’t work without the answer, such as which product to watch.
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Turn it on

A new task starts off, as a draft beside the chat. Check it and select Turn on; nothing runs until you do. The task appears under Set up in this chat above the conversation and in the task list. Keep chatting to change, pause, or resume it.
The Schedule a task screen with a composer and six starter tasks

A new task starts from a sentence or a starter.

Write the task as a complete instruction. Each run starts a fresh conversation that doesn’t see the chat you set it up in, so “Summarize today’s top AI news in five bullets with links” works better than “Do that again tomorrow.”

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Return to a scheduling chat

Scheduling chats are kept, but they don’t appear under Chats in the sidebar. To return to one, such as a chat where Enconvo is waiting for your answer, select the chat’s name above the conversation and choose it under Scheduling chats. You can delete a chat there too; tasks set up in it keep running.

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Ask from any chat

You can also ask in any chat, such as “Remind me tomorrow at 9 to send the invoice” or “Every Monday morning, list my week’s deadlines.” The Agent sets up the same kind of task, shows its card, and confirms when it will run. Select Open on the card to see it in Automations. A card in an older chat shows whether the task was paused, finished, or deleted since.

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Start on an event or by hand

Instead of a time, an automation can start when something happens. Describe what should start it in the Automations chat, and Enconvo sets up the trigger. Enconvo watches for events on your Mac while it is running. The trigger’s row on the task says what happens to events from while Enconvo was closed. An event trigger can also have a condition in your own words. AI checks each event against it before the run; events that don’t match are skipped, and you can still select Run anyway on one. Each check is a paid AI call. Select Try on recent events to see which recent events it would have run for, without running anything.

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Manage an automation

Select a task in the list to see its details: whether it’s active, paused, or needs attention, then one panel with what starts it, its instruction, where results go, and notifications. When the last run failed or its result wasn’t sent, a note under the name says why and offers a fix:
  • Fix with chat (an Agent or workflow task) opens the task’s chat with a request to fix it that names the error, and Run again runs it once more.
  • Send again retries sending the result, and Change where results go opens the results picker. Choosing Only Enconvo there also clears a note about a result that wasn’t sent.
  • A task that starts on its own pauses after 5 failed runs in a row. Select Turn on once you’ve fixed it.
Recent runs lists each run’s time with the first line of its result, all collapsed. Select a run to read the whole result or error. Under an expanded run, select Ask follow-ups to continue from it in its conversation, for example to ask for more detail on one item, Copy to copy the result or error, or Send again when its result wasn’t sent.

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Find a task

Search with Search tasks by name, instruction, command, or workflow. The list groups tasks as Needs attention (the last run failed or its result was not sent), Upcoming, Paused, and Finished (a one-time task that has run). When your tasks start in more than one way, buttons above the list filter them by what starts them, with All to show every task again. To act on a task without opening it, point to it in the list and select …, or Control-click it, then choose Run now, Pause or Resume, Edit details, or Delete. Press ↓ in Search tasks to go to the first task, then ↑ and ↓ to move between tasks.

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Use the form editor

Select Set up a task with the form instead on the new-task screen, or Edit details on a task, to fill in every field yourself.
Edit scheduled task dialog with an Agent, an instruction, and a weekly Monday to Friday schedule at 09:00

The task editor with an Agent instruction and a weekday schedule.

  1. Name the task and choose what it does: Ask an agent with an Agent and instruction, Run a workflow to run one of your saved workflows, or Run a shell command for a script on your Mac. For a workflow, fill in any inputs it should get; inputs left empty use the workflow’s defaults.
  2. Under When, choose Once, Every day, Weekly, Monthly, Interval, or Cron, and check the Next runs (local time) preview. In Cron, the line under the expression says what it means as you type, such as 0 9-17 * * 1-5 reading Every hour from 09:00 to 17:00 on weekdays.
  3. Under Send the result, turn on Send each result to a chat to deliver results to an IM chat. You may need to talk to the Agent in that chat first so it appears in the picker.
  4. More options adds a description and a maximum number of runs.
  5. Select Save (or Create task). Test run saves the task and runs it immediately.
Shell-command tasks, and sending results to a chat by its ID, are set up only in this editor; the scheduling chat handles Agent and workflow tasks. For a task that starts on an event, the form doesn’t change the trigger: change what starts it in the Automations chat. A shell-command task notifies you only when a run fails (Notify me if it fails), since such tasks often run every few minutes.

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Schedule a workflow

A workflow task runs a saved workflow at the times you choose, the same as selecting Run in the workflow editor. Pick Run a workflow in the editor, or ask the scheduling chat, for example “Run my Content Pipeline every weekday at 9 with the topic AI news”. It finds the workflow by name, fills the inputs you mention, and leaves the rest at their defaults. Each run’s result is the output of the workflow’s last step, so it can be sent to a chat or shown in a notification like any other result. If a step fails, the run is marked failed with that step’s error.
  • The task’s details show the workflow and its inputs. Select Open to see the workflow, or Change to pick another workflow or change the inputs.
  • Under an expanded run, select Open run to see each step of that run in Workflows. When the last run failed, the note under the task’s name offers Open the failed run.
  • A run stops after 30 minutes. Time spent waiting for your answer to an approval step doesn’t count.
  • If the workflow is deleted, the task pauses and says so. Select Choose a workflow to give it another one, or Delete to remove the task.

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Manage many tasks in Settings

Settings → Automations lists every task in a table, including shell-command tasks. Filter by Active, Paused, or Needs attention, search, and select several tasks to pause, resume, or delete them together. A task’s history shows each run’s status: In the history, Open conversation opens an Agent run, Copy result copies its output, and Send again sends the result to the configured chat again, as a real message.

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Good to know

  • Automations run on your Mac, so Enconvo must be running and your Mac awake. A sleeping or offline Mac doesn’t run them; don’t rely on it as an always-on scheduler.
  • Times are in your Mac’s local time zone. Check the next-run times after travel or a time-zone change.
  • A one-time task needs a future time and moves to Finished after it runs.
  • Monthly tasks on the 29th to 31st skip months without that date.
  • Mac notifications also follow Send a system notification in Notifications and macOS Focus. A notification is skipped when you’re already looking at that run.
  • Run history keeps each task’s latest 100 runs; older runs and their conversations are removed. Copy anything important before deleting a task.

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Watch the steps

Open Scheduled (now called Automations), pick the Morning briefing starter, open a task’s details, and open Edit details. The starter draft is not sent, nothing runs, and the example task was deleted after capture. This silent walkthrough uses real interface captures with pauses added for reading. The written steps above provide the same instructions.

Workflows

Build the steps an automation can run.

Agents

Choose and set up the Agent that does the work.

IM Channels

Send each result to a Telegram, Discord, or other chat.

Notifications

Control Mac notifications for finished runs.