Automators

In this episide, David and Rosemary set their sights on Mac maintenance and how to automate it, from clearing your trash to managing duplicates and even handling those pesky .ics files, nothing is safe from their automation!

Sal Soghoian returns to the Automators to share his ingenious Mac control panel built with an iPad, a Luna display connector, and some clever automation. Sal also updates us on the Omni Javascript automation project.

Sal Soghoian

In this episode David and Rosemary are joined by Don McAllister, founder of ScreenCastsOnline, to talk about the automations he has set up to make running a small business easier for everyone!

Don McAllister

This is the name of the Mac service Don and the team use to convert Markdown.

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Roll up your sleeves Automators. This week Rose and David tackle regular expressions. What are they? How do you make them? Where do you use them? All those questions get answered in this episode. Regex isn't as daunting as it may first seem.

It doesn't suck.

In this episode, Rosemary and David climb out of their suitcases armed with a variety of Shortcuts, Scriptable Scripts, Trello Boards, Reminders, TextExpander Snippets, Keyboard Maestro Macros and even a Drafts action group to automate and manage your packing lists.

You can share text to this Shortcut or if no input is provided you will be prompted for input. This searches your calendar for all-day events followed by a prompt to use one of those as the name of your list. If the list doesn't exist yet in the Trello board then it is created.

David's advanced reminders setup Shortcut

The video to match the above Shortcut

Rosemary's Shortcut similar to the above, but it calls Scriptable to create the script.

Called by the Scriptable Script above

Rosemary's Shortcut for extra items to be added to any packing list - pairs with the previous Shortcut.

Rosemary uses this to kick off her Drafts list - it creates the Draft and adds a single task to OmniFocus called "Pack", due the date the trip starts, and with a link to the Draft in the notes field.

Rosemary's Packing Action Group for Drafts

Rose and David break down where Shortcuts is with respect to the 13.0 and 13.1 iOS updates. They also share some of their favorite new shortcuts with the new programming model. Also, David has a new Shortcuts Field Guide arriving next week.

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In this episode, Rosemary and David get to talk to J.F. Brissette who really loves to automate. From automating Screenflow with Keyboard Maestro to using the Terminal as a launcher, as well as regular expressions and looking into combining Dropbox and Chronosync this episode will definitely teach you something - even if it's only about finding opportunities for automation!

Jean-François Brissette

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Map keys on your keyboard to do different things with Karabiner Elements (especially useful if you have an extended keyboard!)

Everything Brett Terpstra has ever written on bash.

An article with links to a series about switching from Bash to Z Shell (zsh)

Want to find something after or before a particular word with regular expressions? This in-depth article will explain it all.

J.F was co-producer, composer, arranger, bass & Chapman Stick

J.F.'s first-ever screencast (on a now-obsolete Apple app)

Rose and David share some of their favorite recently created automations ranging from email, to meetings, to Rose's experiments on her new Mac mini.

In this episode David and Rose talk to Adam Tow, creator of MsgFiler, automator, and Shortcuts creator about a few of his amazing automations. From having photos taken on his DLSR automatically shared to him via iMessage to playing text adventure games with Shortcuts, there is plenty of automation fun to be had!

Adam Tow

This is a 30W USB C charger which is around the same size as an iPad charger - it works great for the MacBook Air!

Rose's new camera

Rose and David take a closer look at Keyboard Maestro, the swiss army knife of automation for the Mac. Get $5 off David's new Keyboard Maestro Field Guide until the end of July with code "AUTOMATORSKM".

Rose explains her new show.

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