Of course, if you know shell commands then you can extend the power of Automator further within any given workflow – which we’ll demonstrate below. And from the name alone you might already be able to guess what this friendly robot was designed for: to perform tasks to speed up your workflow, such as automatically renaming files in a folder, resizing images, and much more.Īutomator removes the burden of performing repetitive tasks manually and allows the user to create various workflows by tapping into a library of hundreds of pre-set actions, gaining the benefit of automation while also eliminating the need to write code yourself.īy doing so, Automator becomes accessible even to average Mac users, who only need to understand that an action may require certain information from a previous action in the workflow to perform a task. The README contains only a single-line description of each workflow, with links to both its thread in these forums (where it is explained in greater detail) and a download link to packal, which is the only place I keep packaged workflows.MacOS includes a ton of great features for improving and enhancing your user experience, but one highly useful and often neglected tool is Automator. I have all my workflows under a single repo, one per directory (with the workflow’s name), each containing only the source. He also provides the packaged workflow via Github’s Releases feature. The README explains in detail what the workflow does, and links to downloads on both the current repo and packal. You do, naturally, find some similarities in how others do it, and may find interesting solutions to incorporate in your own way of work.Īs two examples, deanishe has his workflows on Github, one per repo, each with a src directory, and the rest of the root populated with the packaged workflow as well as other information such as README, TODO, and an animated gif of the workflow in action.
Packal largely fills that role, currently, but still feels like a hacked on solution (it is completely third-party, after all) and that a better one could be arrived at if allowed to interact with Alfred directly in an official capacity (such as thing has been hinted at being worked on, at least conceptually, by Alfred’s authors). It is clear however that most workflow authors would embrace a really good, convenient, frictionless, and easy way to handle it, that would be widespread and clear to use (and if official, even better) that would also be known to users as the resource to use.
There aren’t really best practices, and everyone just does it how they find it most convenient.
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