kerrydawson

I edited all the text stuff but left the pictures. There isn’t that much there to worry about I don’t think. I should cut and paste it to the guys and see what they LOL! I might be shot.

Kerry

Oh yeah. Thanks for the tip. If those guys get spammed I guess I could say well isn’t the damnedest. That damn internet. I could change to @example.com etc. I think it needs to be there so people see what will happen.

I’ll go and edit it.

Thanks

Kerry

Hi Marko,

I’ve sent the following email off to Eric, President of DEVONtechnologies the following email in which I recommend this workflow as another integrating tool to be used with DEVONthink. I feel this is a very useful piece of integration that works with structure of DEVONthink extremely well. I do mention your Omni workflow and although its impressive in terms of the work you’ve put into it, I have certain way of working with Omni that the workflow, though it could be useful at times, I don’t see nearly as useful as the DEVONthink workflow. I hope that’s alright with you. I haven’t had enough time to play with your Omni workflow though but as you’ll see in my email, Omnifocus is of a different nature than DEVONthink. You’re workflow fits into the DEVONthink architecture beautifully. 

I also beta test for Omni and am working with OmniFocus 2. I dialogue directly with the product manager there and Ken Case occassionally who is the president and I might mention the workflow but at this point in time we’re so busy with the beta of OmniFocus v2 its a bit difficult for me to wrap my mind around it. I will play with it a bit. I can say from the little I’ve used it, it works fine with OmniFocus v2 but that’s because the data structures are the same between OmniFocus 1 and 2. 

So this is great about the DEVONthink workflow. I’ll let you know what Eric’s response is. Since he lives in Stuttgard I don’t expect to here from him till about 4 am my time .

Kerry

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Eric,

So it works with an icloud store. Excellent!

The cc works. I entered after the first entry a comma the / then Keith cursored to Keith’s email ID tab and you get:

then enter and you get a new email with Peter as the main and Keith as the cc:

Yes, though I rename the files each time with a version number, so best to delete the old one

It actually came up with a dialogue and said do you want to replace the existing workflow and i said yes. So you could delete as that takes no time or you could just replace it. 

Yaah!!!! It works. It lists out the names of say Peter or John etc, you move your cursor to say Peter’s work email, hit tab and it puts his work email ID in Alfred, then comma, now say Keith, cursor to Keith tab and his email ID is in Alfred. Just keep going with this to you have all the email Ids in Alfred and then enter and it opens an email with all the addresses populated in a new mail window.

Kerry

pmacmillan@example.com,keithfleming@example.com,SDeeth@example.com,Jon@example.com,

In Alfred you get as so:

Kerry

OK. The way Alfred handles multiple versions is if its the same name it just replaces what exists. I’ll go grab it.

Yes it does. I got an email ready to go to the address you indicated instantaneously.

OK hang on

Sorry it was Spell Catcher that capitalized it.

It worked

I’m just running off to the doctors and will be back in an hour or two then if there’s more to do we can

Nope. Foo.scpt is on the desktop as foo.sh

I ran the following and got an error message

Okay thanks. I'm going to go to sleep now :-) I'll tinker around tomorrow to see what it takes to do it the right way (i.e. using Apple contact book APIs). 

That makes sense. Its a long night. I’m just writing an article while we’re doing this.

So have a good sleep.

Groups you can’t send to though from Alfred from what I can see.

At this point I just start typing the others addresses as they’ll quickly popup in Mails dialogue. I have a a couple of groups for people that I send to all the time.

Yes, I’ve used it and it brings up an Alfred representation of Peter’s contact info. He has two email addresses so you can just choose the one you want to send the email to and it creates a new email with his email address that you chose in it.

I sent it to you. Its a way larger than the one in app support.

Yes. I saved it to the desktop though as you can save this anywhere you want. It created the file Contacts - 2013-04-29.abbu. I’m sure this is a fully local file with all my contacts in it for backup and archival purposes. That is, if you wanted to clean up you DB but have a backup of it before you did this is what you’d create. This file, as I said can be stored anywhere and named anything except for the extension. So I could store it in applications support. If your script can reach into this file then all it would be a matter of is if people were to use the script they’d have to first create an archival file and put it in a specific location for the purposes of the script and name it to support the script. That wouldn’t be difficult. Do you want this file sent to you.

Yeah I was wondering about that as the change to iCloud affected a whole pile of developers so they’ve all moved to iCloud.

No there’s nothing in Contacts called On My Mac. There’s only a header called iCloud followed by all by groups under that. 

That’s just the way it set up when I converted to iCloud I have no idea when.

I did notice though in the metadata folder the file called .info (need tinkertools as this is hidden) changed its time to reflect the time I deleted the contact.

This might be useful but the cloud thing - I don’t know where it comes to the Workflow.

http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/18497/where-does-mac-os-x-store-contacts-in-my-address-book

The file has been sent. 

Kerry

Okay, so you have a valid address book, your Mac OS version is the same as mine, but for some reason my workflow is not able to read your address book. (I use iCloud too). The only thing I can imagine is that there is some format difference between your address book and mine that I am not aware of. Unfortunately, the only way I can help is if I get a copy of your address book so I can see if I can read it myself (AddressBook-v22.abcddb) otherwise we may keep trying things to no avail. I totally understand you may not want to share that as it has all your personal contact details. I can't think of how else to solve the problem though :-(

Sure I can send you that.

How do you want to do it. And you’ll have to tell me exactly what file/s it is you want me to send. Or do you just want me to send you a file>export>contacts archive.

Is that what you want. There are about 350 contacts in my address book.

Whoops. Hang on.