# Manual tasks

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/manual-tasks/12422>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [February 25, 2013, 7:30pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/manual-tasks/12422 "2013-02-25T19:30:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![James8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ec9cab/32.png) [@James8](https://forum.ansible.com/u/James8)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 7:30pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/manual-tasks/12422/1 "2013-02-25T19:30:46Z")

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I want to be reminded of manual tasks, that we either can’t automate or haven’t automated, at the beginning or end of a playbook.

ie. Add an A record now. or add to monitoring…

Should I do this with Debug?

Thanks  
James

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**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 7:55pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/manual-tasks/12422/2 "2013-02-25T19:55:37Z")

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A great opportunity to observe the WS-Human Task XML standard!

(ok, i'm not serious, but that is a thing! Look it up! It's scary!)

You possibly could use "debug: msg=foo"

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**Author:** ![Tim\_Bielawa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Tim\_Bielawa](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Tim_Bielawa)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2013, 5:44pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/manual-tasks/12422/3 "2013-02-26T17:44:53Z")

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There's a great example of this in the pause module documentation:

[http://ansible.cc/docs/modules.html#pause](http://ansible.cc/docs/modules.html#pause)

# A helpful reminder of what to look out for post-update.