AppleScripting

Welcome to my messy collection of AppleScript utilities! I hope you find something useful.

Installation

AppleScript files in this repo use uncompiled scripts. To compile all libraries and scripts, run:

./compile-libs.sh
mkdir -p ~/Library/Script\ Libraries
ln -s $(pwd)/dist/Libraries/*.scpt ~/Library/Script\ Libraries
./compile-scripts.sh

Script Libraries

Some scripts make use of common utilities spun out into global script libraries. These can be copied or symlinked from the dist/Libraries folder to the ~/Library/Script Libraries folder as needed.

For example:

# Compile libs first
./compile-libs.sh

# Then symlink them into place
ln -s $(pwd)/dist/Libraries/*.scpt ~/Library/Script\ Libraries

DEVONthink

References from Bookends

Syncs Bookends references to a group in a given database. Options can be changed at the top of the script.

Symlink/copy to ~/Library/Application Scripts/com.devon-technologies.think3/Menu (or elsewhere) for easy access.

Set Zettel Data

Given a custom metadata field zettelkastenid and Zettelkasten entries prefixed by a 14 digit epoch time code, this Smart Rule script will copy the time code to the custom metadata field.

Symlink/copy to ~/Library/Application Scripts/com.devon-technologies.think3/Smart Rules and create a Smart Rule with:

• Search in set to your Zettelkasten group
• A predicate where the zettelkastenid is empty
• An action to Execute Script set to External and pointing to Set Zettel Data

Bookends

Custom formats should go in ~/Library/Application Support/Bookends/Custom Formats.