I’ve been using Yojimbo, for a long while now but Eystein has been pestering me to give Evernote a shot. Common for both of these is that you don’t want to spend any time when you’re dropping stuff into them. I want one key that’ll toggle the visibility of the app. I want to hit my hotkey, dump stuff in, hit my hotkey again and continue what I was doing. Of course, neither of these apps come with that functionality (Well. Yojimbo does come with a “Quick input”-window, but for some reason I never got to loving it.) so here’s an AppleScript to fix that.
Just change the name in the script to whatever app you want to target, create a Quicksilver trigger for it and Bob’s your uncle.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 | on run tell application "Finder" to set en to name of first ¬ process whose frontmost is true if en = "Evernote" then tell application "System Events" to set visible ¬ of process "Evernote" to false set notHidden to false else tell application "System Events" to set visible ¬ of process "Evernote" to true activate application "Evernote" set notHidden to true end if end run |
I’m really enjoying messing around with AppleScript these last few days. For such a light-weight language the benefits of it commanding the OS are huge.
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