I am looking for a workflow that will append the selected text ( it will be plain text always in Textedit) into another archive text file. That's it. The target archive file will not likely be open usually.
If I have to Select the text and then copy to clipboard first, that's fine. Ideally I would be able to just select the text then trigger the Alfred workflow with the Hotkey trigger (archive file gets opened, text appended, file gets closed) and then I will delete the selected text in my working text file (inside of workflow or manually)
Tried some Automator script but I couldn't configure the code syntax correctly.
set theText to the clipboard set theFilePath to (“/Whatever/The Path/Actually Is”) & “Whatever the Filename is.txt”
set theFileReference to open for access theFilePath withwrite permission write ” ” to theFileReference starting at eof write theText to theFileReference starting at eof close access theFileReference
Workflow Request → Append Selected Text to .txt File
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Hello,
I am looking for a workflow that will append the selected text ( it will be plain text always in Textedit) into another archive text file. That's it. The target archive file will not likely be open usually.
If I have to Select the text and then copy to clipboard first, that's fine. Ideally I would be able to just select the text then trigger the Alfred workflow with the Hotkey trigger (archive file gets opened, text appended, file gets closed) and then I will delete the selected text in my working text file (inside of workflow or manually)
Tried some Automator script but I couldn't configure the code syntax correctly.
From : http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/scripting-101-a-very-gentle-introduction-to-applescript/44969
set theText to the clipboard
set theFilePath to (“/Whatever/The Path/Actually Is”) & “Whatever the Filename is.txt”
set theFileReference to open for access theFilePath withwrite permission
write ”
” to theFileReference starting at eof
write theText to theFileReference starting at eof
close access theFileReference
New to this.
Thanks for any help.
Ray