Work with the garage door up: this script snapshots your entire desktop through the day, and then stitches the images together into a gif

garage-door-up.scpt

--Requires ImageMagick

-- Set up the variables
set screenshotFolder to "/Users/YR_NAME/Desktop/Screenshots" -- Change this to whatever folder you'd like to save the screenshots in
set screenshotInterval to 600 -- Change this to the number of seconds between each screenshot
set screenshotCount to 30 -- Change this to the number of screenshots you'd like to take

-- Take the screenshots
delay screenshotInterval
repeat with i from 1 to screenshotCount
	set screenshotName to "screenshot" & i & ".png"
	set screenshotPath to screenshotFolder & "/" & screenshotName -- corrected file path
	do shell script "screencapture -x " & quoted form of screenshotPath
	delay screenshotInterval
end repeat

-- Combine the screenshots into a gif
set gifName to "screenshot.gif"
set gifPath to screenshotFolder & gifName
do shell script "cd " & quoted form of screenshotFolder & "; /opt/homebrew/bin/convert -delay 100 -loop 0 screenshot*.png " & quoted form of gifName