How to auto-fill the same form every day

There is a specific flavour of repetitive work that browser autofill has never solved: the form you complete every day with the same answers. Chrome's autofill knows your address, not your daily 9:15 status update. A recorded macro knows both, because it just repeats what you typed.

Decide how far the macro should go

Before recording, choose one of these — it changes where you stop:

• Fill only. The macro completes the fields and leaves the submit to you. Safest, and right whenever you want a look before it goes.
• Fill and submit. The macro includes the submit click. Right when the entry is genuinely identical every day.

If you are going to schedule it to run unattended, it has to be fill-and-submit — a scheduled macro that stops before the button does nothing useful.

Record it

1. Sign in and open the form the way you do every day.
2. Open Replayo and press Record.
3. Fill the form once — every field, dropdown and checkbox, in your usual order.
4. Submit it, or stop just before, according to the choice above.
5. Stop recording and name it — "Daily standup form," "Timesheet entry."

The macro runs once immediately, so today's entry is already handled.

Make it happen on its own

Open the macro's schedule and choose daily, at a time you are reliably at your desk with the browser open — macros run in your browser, so it needs to be running. Pick a time shortly after you usually start, not 3 AM.

Get confirmation without checking

For a form you no longer submit by hand, you want proof it went in. If the page shows a confirmation — a reference number, a "submitted" status, an updated count — point at it while recording and Replayo emails you that value after every run. The confirmation email is your receipt.

Cautions worth taking seriously

• Do not record passwords. Stay signed in and start the recording after login.
• Do not auto-submit anything consequential — approvals, payments, anything with a real-world side effect that a wrong day would matter for.
• Values are fixed. If the form needs today's number rather than yesterday's, record the fill-only version and type the number yourself.
• Check in occasionally. Forms get redesigned; a monthly glance at the confirmation emails is enough to catch it.

Related patterns

• Automating form filling in general — including multi-step and filtered forms.
• Repetitive data entry — when the routine repeats but the values do not.
• Recording a macro, step by step.

Frequently asked questions

Can Chrome auto-fill a form automatically every day?

Not on its own. Chrome's autofill only suggests saved values when you interact with a field, and it has no scheduling. A macro recorder extension can fill the form and, if you schedule it, submit it daily without you opening the page.

Will the macro submit the form for me?

Only if you include the submit click while recording. You can deliberately stop just before submitting so you get a final look every day.

What if one field changes each day?

Record the macro as fill-only. It completes everything that stays the same and leaves you to type the one value that changes — usually a few seconds instead of a few minutes.

How do I know the daily run worked?

Point at the page's confirmation element while recording. Every run then emails you that value, which acts as a receipt that the form was submitted.