Description

This project makes it possible to automatically prefix filenames with the creation date of the file on Mac OSX. For example: myfile.txt becomes 2018-01-05 myfile.txt.

It's made up of a Ruby script (bin/datestamp) which is called from an Automator workflow which can, in turn, be triggered by a keyboard shortcut.

Setup

Link to Ruby script from a location in your PATH

For example:

$ ln -s ~/Code/floehopper/datestamp/bin/datestamp ~/bin/datestamp

Copy workflow into Services directory

For example:

$ cp -R Datestamp.workflow ~/Library/Services/

Install workflow as a service

For example:

$ open ~/Library/Services/Datestamp.workflow

And follow the GUI instructions.

Add Finder keyboard shortcut for Datestamp service

The following adds the keyboard shortcut ⌘d to run the Datestamp service:

$ defaults write com.apple.finder NSUserKeyEquivalents '{ Datestamp = "@d"; }'

Dependencies

The Ruby script currently depends on Ruby v2.5.0 provided by rbenv, because Pathname#birthtime is a recent addition to Ruby.

The whole project has only been tested on Mac OSX Sierra (v10.12.6).

License

You may use, copy and redistribute this library under the MIT license.

© Copyright James Mead 2018