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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:


 

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 by chadhs
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