My previous post on some useful file renaming in Finder, Forklift, and Path Finder gave me a mental nudge to write up and share with you all some automations for getting some content into files from Safari. More specifically ways to generate links and snapshots of web pages and store them away in the current folder. This time however, rather than using Shortcuts, the tool of choice is Keyboard Maestro.

Tags in OS X 10.9 Mavericks is one of the new operating system’s most touted, but least-discussed new features. Josh Centers shows you how to use tags, and what they’re useful for.

At least when it comes to sharing your own files.

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So you can switch platforms and bring your data with you

It’s a secret feature inside Windows 11 test builds right now.

File synchronization can be fun and painless if you don’t have to deal with corporate bullshit.

In my day job, I work on Windows, and XYplorer is my file manager of choice due to it’s configurability and extensibility through scripting. One of my most used extensions is one which will move the last downloaded file to the directory in the currently focused XYplorer pane. I have written about a very similar XYplorer script in the past that works in the same way, but rather than the last download, it grabs a copy of the last screenshot I took. Recently I realised I was missing this functionality over on my Mac, and so I decided to redress the imbalance through a little scripting.

“@gruber @stroughtonsmith Which means you can override the "default" app that opens by manually doing Share ⇾ Open In... again. Yes, this is totally hidden and most people have no idea that the double-tap thing even exists.”