Posts Tagged “applescript”

Import Moves for iOS Logs to Day One

by brandon on April 9, 2013

I’ve been using Moves for iOS to track my movement and I wanted to add the saved images the app can produce to Day One for OS X for journaling purposes.[1] So, if you create a Hazel rule to check (…)

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«class UTF8» in AppleScript

by brandon on March 15, 2013

I commented about this subject to a fellow nerd and he wanted to know why using «class UTF8» when accessing text in files with AppleScript was important. If you’re working with just English, you’ll never run into this problem, unless (…)

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A Tickler Folder System for OS X

by brandon on March 7, 2013

Updated on 2013-03-14 I made some bug fixes to the “check” apps and now they are pretty fail-proof. I also altered the “maker” app so that it creates a “Tickler” folder and then puts all the other folders inside that (…)

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Interesting Links for Tuesday, February 26, 2013

by brandon on February 26, 2013

Toggle the AppleScript Menu On and Off (link opens script in AppleScript Editor) > A quick little script I whipped up to turn the AppleScript menu on and off. I suppose you could run it from a launcher like Launchbar (…)

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Starting Magnet Links Remotely

by brandon on February 22, 2013

Updated 2013-03-01: I realized that if Transmission wasn’t already open, the GUI scripting would get passed over, so I added a bit to see if Transmission is the frontmost app. I’ve been using Keyboard Maestro for months now to take (…)

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AppleScript and Days of the Week

by brandon on February 7, 2013

I wasted probably an hour, at least, because I was checking this: if weekday of (current date) is “Thursday” then Do you see my mistake? I didn’t for the longest time. AppleScript has reserved words for days of the week. (…)

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More Fun with OmniFocus and Sticky Notifications

by brandon on December 3, 2012

I got to playing around with AppleScripting OmniFocus and Sticky Notifications again. Here are two new scripts. The first one will check your “Miscellaneous” list and notify you if you have more than ten available tasks there. The second script (…)

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Turn Omnifocus Tasks Into Sticky Notifications with AppleScript

by brandon on November 5, 2012

I’ve been playing with this script for a while, but I finally got it so it works with just AppleScript and doesn’t require Keyboard Maestro to work. It also will now create individual sticky notifications for each Omnifocus task. Update! (…)

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Links of Interest for 2012-10-01

by brandon on October 1, 2012

Star Trek: TNG turns 25 Because I watched TNG in my 20′s, I don’t think I have the same feelings of nostalgia or possibly resentment of an undelivered future. Create a handy Mac timer with AppleScript an LaunchBar If you’re (…)

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Getting Better at GUI Scripting through AppleScript

by brandon on September 28, 2012

My goal over the past few days has been to get better at GUI scripting through AppleScript. I’ve played with Apple’s accessibility tools and with UI Browser (powerful but crashes every five minutes). I’ve essentially been trying to automate functions (…)

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