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As more and more businesses shift to remote work, digital collaboration is an essential puzzle to solve. Email, Slack, and Zoom fill some of the void of course, but there are other in-office experiences that are hard to recreate. Something in the office as simple as tapping someone on the

If you're an automation geek, you're familiar with Zapier and its powerful ability to connect apps and automate tasks in your day to day workflows. But did you know that you can use PixieBrix with Zapier to make it even more powerful? At first you might be like, why do

Sidebar extensions are becoming very popular: let's build one together. This extension fetches data on any soccer player from a public sports API and visualizes it in the sidebar.

In order to help you get the most out of your Twitter experience — and to solve some of these issues — we’ve rounded up nine of the best Twitter Chrome extensions.

Equip your sales teams with the right Chrome extensions and give them the edge they need to close more deals and be more productive.

If you’re a YouTube creator, you spend hours on your videos. Some of it’s just so time-consuming—like coming up with titles, designing images, uploading movies, adding subtitles and timestamps… When you’re a big influencer you can afford to pay someone else to deal with all of

Built with PixieBrix’s browser automation software, a Slack kudos extension allows you to shout out your coworkers no matter where you are online.

If you’re looking for Zapier alternatives, here are six options that can help you take your productivity to the next level.

For many of us, translation is so ingrained in our daily workflows that we don’t even stop to consider how much time it eats up. But PixieBrix provides a better way.

With PixieBrix you can pull Airbnb listing data you need into a digestible Google Sheet, making it simple to find the right rental for you.

While your web browser can certainly be the source of many of these distractions, it can also, when used thoughtfully, help significantly boost your productivity.

Twitter is great, but sometimes it can just be a bit much. Newsfeeds are full of “web3”, “is HTML a programming language”, and well, *gestures wildly* the news. Sometimes we just don’t want to see certain content. Thankfully, Twitter has an easy solution - muted keywords! But sometimes when

From automating repetitive tasks to integrating with other powerful business tools, there are a number of ways to make your Slack account work harder for you.

If you find yourself doing the same tasks over and over each day, and you’re not finding joy or fulfillment in the effort, it’s time to make a change. Here are three ways to eliminate the repetitive work eating up your day.

In this post I’ll share several ways I use PixieBrix everyday to eliminate repetitive tasks. All together, these give me back about an hour every day to focus on building our user base. I hope these give you some ideas to help you get started! Searching Sales Prospects on

We asked senior IT leader and RPA expert, Doug Shannon, a few questions about his experience with RPA. Here’s what we heard: Why should companies build a center of excellence (COE) for RPA?Doug Shannon: Companies building toward automation or digital democratization need a team or group to lead,

We asked senior RPA leader and digital transformation expert, Kieran Gilmurray, a few questions about his experience with intelligent automation. Here’s what we heard: Traditional automation tools were designed to automate back office tasks, like invoice processing. How do you think automation should adapt to support knowledge work vs.

We asked senior RPA leader and digital transformation expert, Ema Roloff, a few questions about her experience with intelligent automation. Here’s what we heard: Change management is an important component of RPA programs. How can organizations prepare for this and successfully adapt to the changes that come along with

We asked senior RPA leader and intelligent automation expert, Tolani Jaiye-Tikolo, a few questions about her experience with open-source RPA. Here’s what we heard: We’ve recently seen an uptick in open-source RPA. What do you think is behind this trend?It’s simple.. Commoditization. RPA is becoming a

Four questions with RPA leader Peter CampWe asked intelligent automation expert and founder of CampTek Software, Peter Camp, a few questions about his experience with attended automation. Here’s what we heard: We’re seeing a shift in focus from unattended RPA toward attended RPA. What’s driving this trend,

This post discusses how you can integrate PixieBrix with Jira to streamline the process of ticket creation and encourage more employees to report issues. Managing every stage of the software development life cycle (SDLC) can be a daunting task. While software management programs like Jira are extremely helpful, they’re

This post discusses four ways that PixieBrix can multiply the ROI of your UiPath deployment PixieBrix for Attended AutomationPixieBrix is a low-code platform for customizing the user experience (UX) of any web page. You can add UI elements such as buttons, context menus, information panels, triggers, and more. Customizing the

This post discusses using PixieBrix to unify the customer service journey for better customer experiences. According to Salesforce’s State of Service report, 51% of agents search between multiple screens to find the information needed to do their job. This increases average handle time (AHT), and lowers customer satisfaction. To

This post discusses using PixieBrix to capture, annotate, and share customer interaction data throughout your organization. Amazon and customer obsessionCompanies that excel at amplifying their customer’s voice within their organizations provide better customer service and build better products. Consider Amazon, whose first leadership principle is “Customer Obsession.” To glean

This post discusses integrating third-party APIs with PixieBrix, including why this is helpful and specific use cases The last time you used a software application, you were likely interacting with an end product that was built on top of many third-party software components. Let’s take Lyft for example, which

This post discusses how to embed web content in the PixieBrix Sidebar Panel using an iframe, including why this is helpful and specific use cases Do you jump to specific websites or web tools for certain parts of your work? For example, sometimes I hit network errors with Trello, so

I still remember the first time I got my hands on a first-gen Chromebook. It was 2011 and I was a computer science PhD student at the idyllic University of Washington. I was coming into my own as a tech guinea pig — Amazon had given my class large-screened Kindle DXs

Web browsers are the modern operating system. Google’s Chrome OS, an operating system that runs the Chrome Browser exclusively, is now the second most popular desktop operating system. Additionally, the rise of Electron and similar cross-platform frameworks means that many of the applications we use every day (e.g.

If you’re like most developers, you’ve probably encountered Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) selectors for styling webpages. sea For example, the following CSS rule combines a paragraph element selector p with a class name selector .lead to set the font size: p.lead { font-size: 32px; } We can mix-and-match CSS

My freshman year of college, I interned as an “equities analyst”. What this meant in practice was that I was supposed to look up numbers in a terminal, and then type them into an Excel spreadsheet. The software provider hadn’t gotten around to implementing export for the data yet.

In 1973 Larry Tesler invented the concepts of "cut," "copy" and "paste" at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). As digital record keeping gained enterprise adoption, Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V soared in popularity, especially among data entry and processing professionals. Today, they’re the most common keyboard shortcuts.