I should probably turn them into a Bundle for easier installation. They’re a bit complicated to set up but are wonderfully simple to use. The first two are described here, and the third is described here. One for inserting Google’s I Feel Lucky link on text already typed, triggered by ⌃⌥⇧L.One for inserting links after I’ve already typed out the text, triggered by ⌃⌥L.One for inserting links as I type, triggered by ⌃L.I use three TextMate command/snippet/macros to do this: To keep the visual clutter to an absolute minimum, I use reference-style links, which puts all the URLs at the bottom of the document, out of the flow of the text. I write almost everything in Markdown, mainly because I can forget about the formatting and just type, but also because it’s so easy to read. I can’t imagine going back to writing posts like this without it. There are certainly commercial products that do some or all of these things, but none are so perfectly tuned to my way of working. I’ve configured FastScripts to run snapftp with the ⌃⌥⌘4 key combination, a minor variation on the Apple-standard ⌘⇧4 key combo. Puts the URL of the uploaded image on the clipboard for pasting into a post.Takes a snapshot of some portion of my computer screen.I generally type up my label input in TextMate and then run pflabels on that input via the Text>Filter Through Command… (⌥⌘R) command. The script takes two options, -r and -c, which tell it which row and column to start on, so it can print on label sheets that have been partially used. If I’m going to make several labels for the same project (which is usually the case), I need only enter the heading once. The headings, which have the project name and number separated by the pipe character (|), are denoted with an initial hash symbol (#), and individual labels are separated by blank lines. The input looks like this: #Kernighan Building|4215 So I wrote a script called pflabels that takes plain text input in a simple format and generates output for printing on a sheet of 1″×4″ labels ( Avery 5261 or the equivalent). Also, there’s a lot of repetitive typing associated with those templates, and I obviously want to avoid that. There are plenty of templates out there for Avery labels and their clones, but they’re usually made for MS Word or some other program I don’t use. I like the project file folders in my office to have crisp laser-printed labels. These are the member of my personal scripting hall of fame. While almost all of these scripts have been worthwhile, a few have proved so useful that I use them on a weekly or even daily basis. Many of my posts here have been about the writing-or rewriting or rerewriting-of scripts to automate the dull, repetitive, clicky-click tasks so common to computer use. There’s also the tag cloud and the popular posts list in the sidebar.Īnd for the regular readers, sorry about the repetition.
It was called “ My script hall of fame” and should give you a sense of the stuff I normally do. So I’m going to cheat and repeat a post I wrote about a year ago. Unfortunately, I’m a little too tired and too under the weather to pop out a post tonight. It’s not that I’m embarrassed by my recent posts-I really liked the one about the Coke can pull tab, for example-but they’re mostly not aligned with Back to Work’s brief of “productivity, communication, work, barriers, constraints, tools, and more.”Īnd since Google Analytics tells me many of you are coming here from 5by5, I figured I should put something here you might be interested in. Now, Merlin has said some kind things about And Now It’s All This in the past, so it wasn’t like this was a bolt from the blue, but frankly things have been a little spotty here lately. Merlin limited to just an hour and a half of talking and.When the cutting and the soldering and the cleanup were all done, I went to 5by5 to see the show’s description. Merlin’s New Thing with Dan Benjamin Goes live in 15m at
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