Texting & Tasking with Alfred
I’m ashamed at how many task management scenarios I’ve explored, you name it I’ve used it - the three constants throughout my arduous journey have been TaskPaper, Notational Velocity & Dropbox - as I’m so fond of saying, “it’s not pretty but it works” One element that’s been missing is a quick low-fat way to drop items into my text files to deal with later, I’m not fond of keeping TP or NV running all the time, as I find a task list in my face distracting and somewhat (strangely) intimidating.
Last week the awesome folks at Alfred (@alfredApp) released 0.9 of Alfred, my launcher of choice - and via my PowerPack license I can run shell scripts, global commands and other assorted tasty tidbits. Today I had a few minutes, so I knocked together a quick append to text file function so I can add my tasks to my list while ‘in the moment’
echo "{query}" >> /Users/you-username-goes-here/path/text-file-name.txt
as easy as that.. more soon.. stay tuned
UPDATE
Some people may want to prepend as opposed to append, this seems to work.
echo "{query}" | cat - /Users/you-username-goes-here/path/text-file-name.txt > /tmp/tempfile && mv /tmp/tempfile /Users/you-username-goes-here/path/text-file-name.txt
Another Update
now packaged as an extension here
