People like Curt develop all sorts of useful scripts and then post them to the Interwebs. Regardless, even if you don’t want to learn Applescript, you can still use it. The best way to learn it is to buy Sal’s book. It takes a little bit of time to figure out. It enables you to make your good apps great and your great apps awesome. You can tell one application to generate data and then send that data to a different application to lay it out, or print it, or post it to the Internet. The download includes instructions but since so many find Applescript intimidating, I’m going to walk through it.Īpplescript is Apple’s own natural language scripting language that lets Macintosh applications hook up. Specifically, I’m using the Populate Template Placeholders script. Instead, I downloaded from Curt Clifton’s outstanding collection of OmniFocus scripts. In this case, I didn’t even write the script myself. So how do I use this unsupported feature in OmniFocus? The answer is Applescript, that ubiquitous tool (that almost nobody uses) that lets you add features and bolt applications together like so many pieces of a digital erector set. For instance, I had a set of tasks that got repeated for each chapter of The Book. Everybody has some little group of tasks that gets repeated. One feature missing in my precious however is the ability to create project templates. If I don’t do my morning task audit, I get the shakes and start blurting out incoherent rambling about blown deadlines and crashing plates. I need this app like Smeagol needs his ring.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |