Bad Workflows

AutoMistake is the signature tool in the collection. It takes the text you have selected and rewrites it with the kinds of typos a tired human makes, swapping "because" for "becuase" and jumbling letters the way a real keyboard slip would. You trigger it through Alfred, so it becomes a one-keystroke way to add a human touch to text that otherwise looks too polished. It's the workflow most people try first, and it's the one the whole project is named after.

This workflow makes your space bar play the Wilhelm scream, the stock sound effect used in film and TV for decades. Every time you hit the space key, the scream goes off, which makes typing anything a losing battle. It's a physical, audible gag rather than a visual one, and it works because the space bar is the key nobody thinks about until it betrays them.

Instead of tracking your tasks, this workflow deletes them. Anything you enter is either removed or replaced with aimless activities like pondering and stargazing. The joke lands hardest for anyone who lives in a task manager, because it strips out the one thing those apps promise to protect. You can still type an entry, and that's what makes it funny and infuriating at once.

The copy tool adds randomly generated errors to your copy and paste. Select text, run the workflow, and pasted content arrives with small mistakes baked in. Frost frames it as adding a human touch to copy that looks machine-perfect. In practice it's a way to make a clean document feel like it was typed by someone in a hurry.

Opening apps like Zoom or Slack triggers an immediate system shutdown on your Mac. The name is the joke: the productivity progress you were about to make stops at the login screen. It's the most disruptive tool in the set, so it's also the one to install with care and remove fast if a scheduled call is coming.

This workflow takes the file you have selected and moves it to a random location on your disk. The file isn't deleted, but finding it again becomes a hunt through your folders. It targets people who keep a tidy desktop on purpose, and it turns that tidiness into work you didn't plan for.

Setting a focus timer usually buys you deep work. Here it buys seven seconds, after which the workflow opens web games instead. The gag works because focus timers are sold as a serious way to protect your attention, and this one hands that attention straight to a browser tab.

Human Stupidity is a mock personal assistant. Frost describes it as imprecise, unhelpful and slow to reply, which is the reverse of how AI assistants are marketed. It sits alongside the other tools as a jab at the wave of assistants that promise to handle your work, and it answers with the opposite of efficiency.