You may have noticed that my ‘Around the web’ posts have gotten a little longer in the past few weeks. The reason for this isn’t that I’m reading more or seeing more interesting tid bits on a weekly basis, it is mainly due to an improved toolset. I’ve set up a couple of scripts that make it really easy for me to save links during the week.
I have a task I use to store the draft for my ‘Around the web’ post during the week, then I post it to my blog every Sunday using the ‘post to WordPress’ feature. Most of the time, I’ll be in NetNewsWire when I see something I’d like to link to, other times I’ll be in my browser. Every once in a while I’ll get links via e-mail, but usually I won’t decide to link to them until I’ve opened the URL in the browser.
Sam DeVore created a nifty AppleScript to make a new task from an e-mail in Mail.app. I used that as a base and modified it to work as I wanted to in NetNewsWire.
Here are the scripts I use for creating a new task from a news item or web page, or to append a link to that URL in an existing task (from NetNewsWire or from Camino or Safari). These should work fine with Tasks Pro™, Tasks 2.x or a Use Tasks account.
Note: You’ll have to edit the scripts directly to set the URL of your Tasks installation (and the ID of the task you want to append to, if applicable).
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Salling Clicker 2.2 works with NetNewsWire
The newest release of Salling Clicker lets you check your NetNewsWire news. It works by talking to NetNewsWire via AppleScript (though you don’t have to know that to use it). In a related vein, Alex King posted a script that creates a new task in…
July 21st, 2004 at 8:29 am
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NetNewsWire 2 to Tasks Script
I’ve made an updated version of my NetNewsWire to Tasks scripts available. This version works with the new tabbed browsing feature in NetNewsWire 2. If a browser tab is the current tab, it uses that URL and page title, otherwise it uses the selected…
October 12th, 2004 at 11:05 am
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Footnotes
When I write blog entries, I find myself adding lots of information inline in parentheses and I think it makes reading the content more difficult. However, I still want to be able to add the ancillary information to help explain things that might need …
November 28th, 2004 at 12:13 pm
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The download links above seem to now be broken.
February 2nd, 2007 at 12:58 pm
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The bookmarklets have been moved over here:
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Is that what you’re looking for?
February 2nd, 2007 at 2:07 pm