Ask HN: What are your favorite iOS/macOS automations?

Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite iOS/macOS automations? by gcanyon on Friday September 01, 2023 @02:11PM (#37354335)

Not an automation, technically, but maybe it could be: I have an AppleScript that is set to run every hour that grabs any files on my desktop that have been there longer than a day, and puts them in a dated folder in an archive folder. Same for my downloads.

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Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite iOS/macOS automations? by nkotov on Friday September 01, 2023 @02:22PM (#37354464)

Could you share this? I have something similar for my own workflow but it's manual and involves a folder called "Everything".

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Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite iOS/macOS automations? by robador on Friday September 01, 2023 @02:44PM (#37354667)

I'm also interested in this!

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Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite iOS/macOS automations? by gcanyon on Saturday September 02, 2023 @09:36AM (#37361417)

I wrote it up here a long time ago: https://gcanyon.wordpress.com/2013/05/12/keeping-a-clean-des...

I've made changes since then and I haven't documented them :-/ I'll try to find the time to write it up.

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Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite iOS/macOS automations? by synthoidzeta on Friday September 01, 2023 @05:32PM (#37356400)

Here's what ChatGPT spits out: https://chat.openai.com/share/89b37ac6-cbe1-4f07-b1dc-7736c5...

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Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite iOS/macOS automations? by dougskinner on Friday September 01, 2023 @09:28PM (#37357852)

This reply seems very low effort and not helpful.

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Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite iOS/macOS automations? by gcanyon on Saturday September 02, 2023 @09:36AM (#37361419)

I wrote it up here a long time ago: https://gcanyon.wordpress.com/2013/05/12/keeping-a-clean-des...

I've made changes since then and I haven't documented them :-/ I'll try to find the time to write it up.

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Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite iOS/macOS automations? by aosaigh on Saturday September 02, 2023 @06:57AM (#37360327)

I do this with my Downloads folder using Hazel[1]. I have an “Archive” folder split into subfolder of screenshots, pdfs, videos etc.. After a month in the downloads folder, Hazel moves everything into the Archive subfolder automatically, sorted by year and month.

[1]: https://www.noodlesoft.com/

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Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite iOS/macOS automations? by gcanyon on Saturday September 02, 2023 @09:39AM (#37361442)

Yep, I've been recommended Hazel before, but I like the control I get with the AppleScript. In particular I like the higher cadence of sweeps, mine does my desktop, downloads, and documents folders, and mine will ignore a file if it has a label, so I can easily keep things if I want.

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