#Automator mac dialy status report for mac#

But I don’t trust them with all my files, don’t want the risk of someone getting access to my every digital bits. iCloud, OneDrive, Baidu Pan and others all have options for over a terabyte of storage space. I have nearly 300GB of Photos, 100GB of Music and a few TBs of other files.

(That’s probably why people still don’t understand crypto because many just look at it as some system for transaction records.)Ĭloud is great for online storage, but I don’t put everything on the cloud. You can replace the tool often, but you can’t easily replace the asset you have created, so take good care of them. A photo is an asset, you created it with your camera, which is just a tool. We are talking about automation of our tasks digitally and many of them will be dealing with digital assets.

But start seeing it as the key digital assets you own. It’s easy to think of files are just random zeroes and ones stored here and there. Might be a little confusing as to why file sharing is part of automation. ⌃⇧⌘K Open Keychain Access ⌃⇧⌘- 10 Dashes, I use 10 dashes to separate sections of my notes or text documents.Ī quick reminder: ⌥ Option ⌃ Control ⇧ Shift ⌘ Command Both done with automator too (example below). (I don’t really like the 10.1 or 11.11 format for month and day, but I am slowly localising.) ⌃⇧⌘T Longdate, extending the above, but including 24 hour time. So fixing it to this format is always clear. ⌃⇧⌘D Shortdate, I like my YYYYMMDD date format, started using it long time ago when I was in London and had to deal with US formats. Can do that in automater easily (example below). (example below, I will find ways to share the icloud link soon.) ⌃⇧⌘S Open Key Websites, similar to the daily cron job script, but this one is manually triggered. Actually, I have a similar Shortcut on my iPhone, so I can just call home with 1 click on the icon. Consider buying a good conferencing speakerphone with a big mute button too. That’s my primary video conf platform and one key mute/unmute is useful. F6 and F7 so I can access them with index finger from both hands. Here are my key mappings:į6/F7 Change between Chinese and English input, both keys are the same, just switch from Chinese between English input. (I am aware of some 3rd party utilities to map special keys, but I try to avoid these non-native or official solutions, can be buggy/spammy/scammy/etc.)įor frequently used features, try to map it to a key that you can remember, then force yourself to use it many time.

#Automator mac dialy status report for mac#

But too bad that they don’t write compatible drivers for Mac anymore, so I haven’t been able to use the special keys at the top. I am still a big fan of Microsoft Natural Keyboard after so many years. I have mapped a few key functions to special key combinations. It is still quicker to just press a key to get certain things done when you are at your desk. It will only work if you system language is English and travel time is less than a day, you can see in the script that it only calculate based on hours and minutes.) (There is a bug in the Travel Time feature in Shortcut, if you choose “Public Transport”, it won’t directly give you the Arrival Time, so I wrote out as part of the script to calculate it. I have also included the actual arrival time because it can be annoying to have to check the message sent time and calculate current time difference.

It will then work out the travel time to your home location.

It will ask you for the mode of transport when you run the script, but you can fix it to your default transport mode if you want to.

When you run it, it will select a randomised greeting word from the list, so the message is just that little bit more “customised” or “personalised”.

You will need to specify your home location and iMessage recipient number when you import the script.

When you add the script, you needc to set it up.(Now you have created your cronjob.) In this example, it will open these 4 sites at 7am, your computer local time, with Safari browser.Ġ 7 * * * open -a Safari 0 7 * * * open -a Safari 0 7 * * * open -a Safari 0 7 * * * open -a Safari To exit the editor, click Control-X, Then “Y” to confirm the saving of the file. Then copy and paste the following lines into it.Type the following (Copy and Paste), without the quotes: “env EDITOR=nano crontab -e”.(Assuming you don’t know what I am talking about, you will see a black window where you can type some text.) Yes, I can do it with Automator too, but it is very simple with cron. There are a few sites that I visit every morning, some for collecting login rewards, some just for news and info. I autoload my daily websites at 7am each morning.