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Wii sports resort emulator mac. Previously, I discussed adding weather forecasts and file attachments to the Things to-do app using some small Go programs I’ve written.

In this post, I’ll share some AppleScripts I use to implement additional features: OmniFocus-style deferred tasks, project templates that live in the Bear notes app, a global “find in Things” keyboard shortcut, and scripts to write your current Safari or Google Chrome tabs to a Things task.

Deferred Tasks

OmniFocus has “deferred” tasks: tasks that aren’t actionable until a certain date. Things can schedule tasks for a future date, but there’s no way to tell it “I’m not necessarily going to do it on that date.” There are “Someday” tasks, which are not actionable, but you can’t tell Things a Someday task should become actionable on a certain date.

So, the requirements for this feature:

• The task is not in the Someday list
• The task isn’t seen as actionable in the Anytime list, until its defer date
• The task becomes actionable on its defer date, but doesn’t show up in the Today list
• The task shows up under its defer date in the Forecast view

I’ve implemented this with AppleScript and a launchd task which runs on my always-on Mac Mini. A high level overview:

• Create a Things tag for deferred tasks (I called mine “Deferred 💤”)
• Every night at 12:01am, tell Things to sync with Things Cloud, and then…
• Look for tasks in the Today list tagged with “Deferred 💤”
• Move those tasks out of the Today list, back to Anytime

I’m not 100% sure how this will work across timezones — when I’m traveling and my Mac Mini is not — but I’ve never been clear how Things handles sync and scheduled tasks across timezones anyway, and this is enough of a corner case that I feel like I can 🤷🏻‍♂️ it away for now.

Cornerstone 3.0.1 for macos. This solution consists of an AppleScript and a Launch Agent which runs it nightly:

You should be able to adapt the launch agent plist to your own paths pretty easily, and similarly customize the AppleScript if your “Deferred” tag is named differently.

As a side note, while writing this script I finally tried out Script Debugger, and I’m really impressed with it! It’s very, very good software.

Project Templates with Bear

I find it useful to store project templates in Bear, my preferred personal notes app, for things like reviewing my personal budget and yearly chores. This script (a text, Gist version is below) creates a new project in Things based on the currently-open note in Bear.

Usage

Place the script in ~/Library/Scripts/Applications/Bear. This allows you to run it with FastScripts whenever Bear is open.

When you run the script, it’ll create a new project in Things based on the following rules: Serial number dollar bill font name.

• The title of the note is the name of the new project
• Every bulleted item becomes a task in the new project
• Lines without bullets become notes on whatever task they’re underneath
• Lines beginning with ; result in empty lines in the tasks’s note
• Empty lines are completely ignored
• Parsing/processing stops when a horizontal rule --- is encountered; this allows for footer matter relevant only in Bear

Caveats

It’s unfortunate that empty lines are completely ignored; this means you have to put a semicolon anywhere you want an empty line in a tasks’s note. This reflects the limits of my AppleScript programming skills.

If the macOS pasteboard contains something other than text, you’ll get an AppleScript error -1700. I haven’t yet bothered to figure out how to fix this; to work around it, just copy any text to the pasteboard and re-run the script.

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Browser Tabs to Things

I forget where I originally got these, but I have AppleScripts which add a Things task containing a list of the current Safari or Google Chrome window’s tabs. The Safari script is here; the Chrome one here. (Again, a Gist with text versions of the scripts is below.)

I actually don’t use Chrome any more; I’ve moved over to Firefox for everything I used to do with Chrome. But I haven’t yet gotten around to rewriting these for Firefox. As I understand, this will be somewhat cumbersome (but possible!) since Firefox doesn’t have very full-featured AppleScript support.

Like the project templates script, you’ll place these in ~/Library/Scripts/Applications/[Safari|Google Chrome], and run them via FastScripts.

Global “Find in Things” shortcut

Finally, I have a script that opens a new Things window and then opens the Find interface within Things. Honestly, this one is annoyingly slow, but it’s still handy so I still use it a couple times a day.

Place this script in ~/Library/Scripts and use FastScripts to assign it a global keyboard shortcut of your choosing.

Conclusion

Through the power of AppleScript, macOS’s automation features, iCal feeds and email, I’ve now replicated all the OmniFocus features I missed in Things, and then some!

This is a prime demonstration of why I (still) love using macOS. If Apple ever removes AppleScript/automation from macOS, I’ll never forgive them.

While it isn't possible to create dynamic Pop-Up Menus in Numbers alone, you can use an AppleScript service to pull data from one table, present it in a list that will then populate the value of a cell. You can set this service up with a keyboard shortcut to make data entry easier. The list will automatically update as you update the second table.

Check out Creating Dynamic Pop-Up Menus In Numbers With AppleScript at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.

Video Transcript: So in my previous video I showed you how to get pop-up menus in Numbers to actually work with a list in another table. It takes some work. Every time you update you have to, kind of, redo the pop-up menus. So isn't there a way to do it truly dynamically where it's going to pull from this list no matter what's in it. The answer is yes, there is a way to do it but it requires you to use Automator and AppleScript and it's kind of buggy and it kind of works. I'm going to show you how and maybe it's something you can build off of especially if you're good with AppleScripts.I have my Table 2 here. It's got these items in it. I've got Table 1 where I want to put stuff and here's what I've done in AppleScript. I've actually started a new Automator task. I've created a new workflow and I've set it as a Service. The Service receives no input and it's used in Numbers only. Then I added one thing to it, run AppleScript. So I'm basically using Automator as a way to compose AppleScript and set this up as a Service. So what's going to happen.Well, so the real AppleScript is right in here, the on run that's kind of added in there by Automator. It's going to tell Application Numbers and tell Table 2 of sheet 1 of document 1. What is that? Well, that is this Table 2 here. So the items that I want to get input into this list. Very clunky to have it always look at Table 2 of sheet 1 of document 1. You might need to adjust that. Probably do some clever AppleScript to maybe get the table by name or some other way. Then it's going to create an options list. It's going to start counting at number 2. why? Because the first item here is just called item so I want to start in row 2. It's going to repeat while n is less than the number of cells in that column. So in other words repeat from 2 all the way to 12. It's going to grab the value of that cell. Store it in something called option. Then it's going to add that to the options list so options to options and option. In other words the current list plus the new item. It's going to increase n by 1 and it's going to repeat here until it gets all of them. Then it's done with that part. So it calculated this option's variable with a list of items.Now it's going to tell the front document's active sheet to get the first table whose selection range's class is range. That's a really weird way in AppleScrip of figuring out of what cell is currently selected. Basically saying what table has a range in it, a range of cells. The only one that is going to have one is the one where you have selected a cell. Then tell that selection range to set the variable c to that first cell. So that first cell is going to be c. Set a variable called mychoice to choose from list options with prompt please choose default items None. So it's going to pop-up a little list of all the stuff we collected here. It's going to set the value of that cell to that. That's what it does. So Save that and save it as a Service that works in Numbers that should appear in Numbers, Services and we should see it here. Choose From List. There it is.So I'm going to select a cell here and I'm going to say Numbers, Services, Choose from List. Now notice that I can set a keyboard shortcut for that. So you do that in System Preferences, Keyboard, Shortcuts, and then in Services I can set the keyboard shortcut so I don't have to go through this whole thing of Numbers, Services, Choose from List. It's going to pop-up a list. There it is. Please choose and notice it has all the items that are here. I'll choose one and hit Okay and it populates that.Is it dynamic? Yes. So I'll add something else here. Let's just add Other to the list and I'll go here and say Choose from List and notice Other now is at the bottom of the list. So it will add items. It will update as you change items here. The keyboard shortcut would make this really easy to just hit the keyboard shortcut and click on an item. You can even, I think, use the keyboard here. So yep I can use the keyboard, down arrow, okay. So with the keyboard shortcut it makes it real easy to enter items and do that. All using AppleScript. I'll include the script that you can Copy and Paste into Automator in the description for this video at the MacMost site.

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