Hazel turns twenty this weekend. I’m a fan. People ask if I’m still using Hazel in the age of AI, and the answer is absolutely yes. Hazel still does a lot of great file management on your device without burning tokens or sacrificing your…
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MailMaven Adds AppleScript and AI
MailMaven (an occasional sponsor around here) continues to evolve since their big launch last year. Version 1.2 brings in automation with a full AppleScript dictionary for finding, examining, manipulating, and composing messages. If you’re a robot builder, you can tie that to the MCP,…
Continue reading →Omni Group Building Toward MCP Support
Ken Case posted the Omni Group’s Post-WWDC Roadmap Update a few weeks ago, and one line jumped out at me. The Omni Group is now planning “first-class MCP support,” likely built through Omni Automation or App Intents. Case explained the team had been watching…
Continue reading →The Productivity Apps That Don’t Speak Agent Will Lose
Spark Mail shipped a Mac CLI and agent skill hooks last week. Read-only email access is free. Write actions (send, move, archive) are behind the Pro subscription. Readdle also published open-source automation recipes and persona hooks for anyone building on top of it. I…
Continue reading →Updated Apple Mail Link AppleScript
For years now, I’ve been iterating on an AppleScript to copy a link for the currently selected Apple Mail message to the clipboard. You can then paste the link elsewhere and get a link back to the source message. This came up during a…
Continue reading →Why Keyboard Maestro Is the Mac Power User’s Secret Weapon
I recently came across Stephen Millard’s write-up on routing Mac Studio audio through a HomePod mini. He ran into some disconnect hiccups, but, unsurprisingly, solved it with a handy Keyboard Maestro macro. Lately I’ve noticed a wave of seasoned iPad power users making the jump…
Continue reading →Script Debugger’s Retirement
Sad news to hear that Script Debugger is closing up shop. After 30 years, the application was the best for writing and troubleshooting AppleScript, and I’m sorry to see it go. My thanks to Shane and Mark for 30 years of hard work on an excellent app.
Continue reading →An Automation Golden Age
Did you know I have a newsletter? I post some, but not all of my newsletter’s content to this blog. Here’a a recent one. An Automation Golden Age I’ve mentioned several times on my podcasts that we’re experiencing a renaissance in automation, particularly on…
Continue reading →Brett Terpstra’s Conductor
I’m a little late with this one, but I wanted to congratulate my friend Brett Terpstra on the release of Conductor. This new command line utility is an add-on for Brett’s successful Marked app. As the name implies, this utility acts as a train conductor…
Continue reading →Announcing the Keyboard Maestro Field Guide 2024 Update and Discount
I am happy to announce an update to my Keyboard Maestro Field Guide. It includes 16 new videos covering many new features added with recent updates, including version 11. To celebrate this update release, I’ve got a limited-time 20% discount on the Keyboard Maestro Field…
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