This video just randomly showed up in my news feed and I'm glad it did! You have some great content! I really do hope for you, that this recomendation is a good omen that the algorithm caught up to you and you finally reach many more people!
@WilliamGallagher2 жыл бұрын
Thanks, that's very good of you to say.
@jamesmwrighttv2 жыл бұрын
Hey William, I’d be interested to know if you use a laptop riser for your writing? I’d like to have a system where my laptop and ipad are elevated togeather, and using sidecar or Universal Control. Oh, also, I’m strongly considering replacing my mouse with a track-pad, for easy zooming into articles 🤓
@WilliamGallagher2 жыл бұрын
I love trackpads, I haven't used a mouse in such a long time. I do see that a lot of it is down to ergonomics; some friends get cramped hands using trackpads where I get the same thing from a mouse. Plus you can be more precise with a mouse. So I also get why some people have both, but for me, it's trackpads forever. And I was going to say no, I don't use a riser, but maybe I sort-of do. If I'm using the MacBook Pro over Universal Control from my Mac mini, I tend to have it to one side and raised up on books. But that's less from ergonomics, more from how I have too many piles of books on my desk. I have noticed lately that I've been getting neck aches after long sessions on my couch with the MacBook Pro, though.
@MartinMichiels Жыл бұрын
Hazel is so powerful ! For example : I made rules so that each time I download an invoice (like : gas, electricity, mobile phone or others) it checks the inside of the PDF for the name of the company and the date of the invoice. It renames the file with the date it found in the invoice YYYY-MM-DD._company_invoice.pdf and then moves it to the correct archive folder on my Dropbox. Done ! Nothing to do (unless I have not activated automatic SEPA payments of the invoice... ;-) ) I even had it scan documents OCR it with an Applescript then do the renaming and sorting for me.
@WilliamGallagher Жыл бұрын
You are my hero. I keep meaning to do a similar rule and never get around to it.
@clivethompson-jc9my11 ай бұрын
I do a double renaming. Firstly I prefix the file name with a sequential number, plus the date, e.g. the file name becomes named "070891 invoice to FT 2023 09 22.pdf", and is filed in a sequential folder, and then I rename it again by adding the date at the front of the file name, so it becomes named "2023 09 22 070891 invoice to FT 2023 09 22.pdf", before it is moved to the correct archive folder. All of this is fully automated. (I know I have the date twice, and could remove the second date using Hazel, but I can't see the point.) If you have a document which is a photograph of text, it won't be OCR readable. I run such documents through a little program called "Cisdem PDF Converter OCR" which converts them into an OCR readable pdf.
@WilliamGallagher11 ай бұрын
@clivethompson-jc9my I am ashamed to say that I have sequential numbers for a particular thing too - but I enter them manually. Right. I’m sorting that out.
@clivethompson-jc9my11 ай бұрын
@@WilliamGallagher for sequential numbers just rename the files with a pattern starting with a hash, [#]. Make sure to edit the number format to the maximum number of digits you will ever need. Mine is set to six digits which allows for one million documents to be numbered. P
@brighton_dude2 жыл бұрын
That is interesting thank you. It all sounds like the kind of stuff that AppleScript or Automator could do.
@WilliamGallagher2 жыл бұрын
Yes. Part of my reasoning for not getting around to updating Hazel was that I have AppleScript and Automator in the Mac already, plus now Shortcuts, and also my beloved Keyboard Maestro. Yet I’m glad I got Hazel back.
@tripley662 жыл бұрын
I think Hazel deserves a raise, but clearly she should be supervised very carefully. I did download Highland 2 on my Mac today after flirting with Fade In on my iPad. Now that it's there, I'm a bit stumped of what to do next. Perhaps you'll consider doing a 58 Keys on same. I'll see where I am by the next time I see you.
@WilliamGallagher2 жыл бұрын
I’ve reviewed Highland 2 in the past, before 58keys, so I’ve used it and might remember some answers if you have particular questions. But I don’t know it well enough to do an episode on. I should learn it, then, shouldn’t i? But right now I’m neck deep in Final Draft, both for a couple of scripts I’m writing and for the now increasingly late Three Biscuit Guide to it. I suggest the short answer is to just start writing your script and see what happens: it’s in the using of the app that you’ll figure out what you do and don’t like about it, I think.
@tripley662 жыл бұрын
@@WilliamGallagher OK, I'll let you and Hazel off this time. I now know more about Fountain and I'll trudge forward as you suggest. It is a Holiday Weekend coming up, which must mean it is Bank Holiday Weekend for you. It is to be raining. I'll start on it. Let's see...it was a dark and stormy nigh...now Highland 2, format that.
@TM-vg4mx Жыл бұрын
how it differs from automators, it seems the same? thanks for the nice video
@WilliamGallagher Жыл бұрын
That's interesting. I am a little wary of talking about Automator these days as Apple seems to have forgotten about it in favour of the much better Shortcuts. But you're right that it is possible to create a watch folder and have an automation trigger when something is put in it. I don't know how easy it is to get Automator to, for instance, delete anything in a folder that is over 1 day old, but isn't tagged with green or the word "leave". That's what I've got Hazel doing for me at the moment.
@deenapearre65942 жыл бұрын
I deal with many SVG, png, and font files in zip form or opened. Do you think hazel would be the best organization for these files? I have been trying to organize them myself, but it has been months, and I always add more daily.
@WilliamGallagher2 жыл бұрын
Definitely. I think if you've never used Hazel at all then it will take you a little while to figure out, but actually most of that time will be in deciding exactly what you want to happen to these files. For instance, I had a job where by the end of the month I'd have a couple of hundred PNG files that I thought I needed to keep. Originally I got Hazel to look at my image folder and if anything was more than a week old, move it to an archive. More than that, though, when necessary Hazel would automatically create an August 2022 folder, for instance, and then move them into that. After a year of thinking this was very clever, I realised I hadn't once gone back into that archive. So now I just have Hazel delete anything in my image folder that's more than a day or two old.