Building a workflow to clean up text
Doctor Drafts is an Alfred workflow I created for working with Drafts and provides a wealth of functionality out of the box. But most users do not realise that they can use it to build their own workflows, letting Doctor Drafts do all the heavy lifting. In this tutorial I'm going to show how you can tap into Doctor Drafts with an example to open a particular Drafts workspace.
Drafts actions allow Drafts users to tap into powerful automations. While there are a great many actions available, the real power is unleashed when you are able to craft your own. You may wish to share your action with others so they can benefit, or so you can get some help in fixing or refining it in some way. Fortunately, Drafts will let you easily get a URL via which you can share your creation. In this brief tutorial I am going to show you how to do this as well as explain a few of the considerations around sharing links to actions.
Being able to cross-reference content and resources is growing ever more prevalent these days as people struggle to track and stay on top of everything they have and do. Hyperlinks that function between applications allowing them to link together is a trend that has been picking up pace for years and Drafts is no exception. In this tutorial, I'll show you how you can get and use a link to open a draft, and what to do when an application won't accept a Drafts URL.
One of the Mac's most powerful features is the command line and the power of shell scripting. While you absolutely do not have to be a scripting wizard to use Shortcuts, sometimes tapping into that power from Shortcuts can save you a lot of effort, speed things up, or maybe even allow you to do something you would not have been in able to do otherwise. In this tutorial, I am going to go through probably the simplest way to pass a piece of information from Shortcuts into a shell script.
Shortcuts often produces sets of related items as a set of items. The key to working with these sets is to use a loop. Specifically a repeat with each loop action. In this tutorial I will show you how to make use of this loop to work with an entire set of items. Computers are great at doing this sort of thing and it is a key technique to tap into the power of Apple Shortcuts.
Sharing shortcuts with others enables everyone to benefit from each other's efforts. Likewise, if you have a problem with your shortuct, you need to be able to share the shortcut with others. Sharing screenshots just doesn't cut it. in this tutorial, I cover the details around this and how you can easily share a link for others to access a copy of your shortcut.