AppendText2File

[chadhs]

I've just created a new workflow for appending text to a specific text file.  I personally use it for quickly capturing list items to a couple text files that I don't want to clutter up OmniFocus with.  This one is almost trivial, but is the counterpart to my less trivial PrependText2File workflow. 

 

Script Logic:

• Creates a to the second timestamped backup under /tmp
  
• Verifies the backup is good via md5 matching before proceeding
  
• Appends your input to the original file
  

 

You can find the workflow file and README here:

https://bitbucket.org/chadhs/appendtext2file

 

Here is a paste of the current README.md as well:

 

# AppendText2File

## Alfred 2 workflow for appending text to a file


## Contact: chadhs@digitalnomad.im

## Credits: script & terrible placeholder icon by Chad Stovern


## Installation Instructions


- double click the workflow file to install

- edit the keyword input to your liking

- edit the embedded bash script line that defines your target text file to append to (NO RELATIVE PATHS); look for this section:


#############################

## SET YOUR TEXT FILE HERE ##

#############################

original="/Users/username/Dropbox/yourfile.txt"


### Optional Notification Support


- if you'd like desktop notifications install terminal-notifier here: https://github.com/alloy/terminal-notifier/downloads ***NOT*** the ruby gem install


## Usage


- activate alfred and type in your keyword

- after your keyword type the exact text you want to append to your file

- press enter to append


## Protips


- install the plugin more than once and choose a different keyword to create shortcuts to append to multiple files

- change the name of the workflow AND the keyword title for each file you install it for


example keywords:  apideas approjects apblog

Edited June 25, 2013 by chadhs