Discover macOS Automation Technologies
As we’ve seen so far in this book, macOS offers lots of ways to automate individual activities. But some automation tasks require apps to talk to each other (or even to other computers), employ sophisticated logic or user interaction, or perform specialized functions that are unique to your situation. When simple tools aren’t up to the job, it’s time to bring in the heavy hitters.
In the next four chapters, I talk about a subset of technologies that go considerably deeper than things like keyboard shortcuts or text expansion. These technologies—Automator, AppleScript, services, and shell scripts—aren’t so much tools as platforms built into macOS that you can use to create your own tools. As such, they’re ...
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