This process saves me valuable time every day and means I never miss-file an article banner. Instead, I just open Finder (which I’ve set to open to the Recents view) to access the file. (If I wanted to, though, I could just click on the Hazel notification which opens the relevant folder). This means, I don’t even have to navigate to the file’s new home to upload it to the relevant site. Marvellously, because the file has been moved it then also appears in the “Recents” smart folder in Finder. When Hazel spots such a file, it automatically moves the image to the correct folder. (I have a different text strings for Gameatory articles, Raging Swan Press articles and Dark Adventures session summaries). Hazel watches my Downloads folder for new graphic files whose title contains certain text strings. At this point, the old me would open the final destination folder for the graphic on my desktop and manually drag the image to that folder from Downloads. Move and File Article Bannersįor every article I write for the Gameatory and Raging Swan Press’s website, I create a banner graphic (such as the one above) using Canva. This process saves me valuable time every day and means I rarely have to manually move a receipt. When Hazel detects such a file, she moves it to my Receipts folder and adds the day’s date in my preferred format. I have a Hazel rule which watches my Downloads folder for PDFs with the word “invoice” or “receipt” in the file name. Downloading receipts, manually adding the correct date to the file name and then moving them to the correct folder is a pain in the whatsits. Move and File ReceiptsĪs a business owner, I have to keep extensive receipts. It took me ages to work out, but the investment in time will be returned ten-fold over the years. I’m particularly proud of this automation as it saves me tons of time, and stops me beating myself to death with the boredom stick and couple of times a week. It copies the PDF, reformats it to a jpg, resizes it to the correct width and puts the new file back in the folder.Īll I have to do is move the files to the book’s folder and I’m done. She runs an automation workflow of my own design.
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When she detects a new PDF arrive in that folder with the word “cover” in the title, she springs into action.
Hazel watches a certain folder on my desktop. I (obviously) have to design the covers, but the rest of the process is ripe for automation. This is time I could better spend doing something-literally anything-else.
Each book requires a PDF cover along with a certain size jpg for the web stores which sell our books.Īs you can imagine, making 15 or more jpgs a month takes a lot of time. Raging Swan Press releases north of 15 books a month.
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Here are some of the automation tasks running on my Mac Mini.
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I know nothing about Windows automation, but I’d be beyond surprised if you couldn’t do the same stuff on a PC.) (The apps and resources are all for the Mac. I use an app called Hazel from Noodlesoft (perhaps one of the best company names ever) and several of the Mac’s built in tools to run the automations below. Why do something yourself when your computer can do it for you? Letting my Mac do some of the everyday drudge work frees up my time to be more productive (which I spend both writing and plotting against my players).Īutomation requires an upfront investment in time to set up, but pays massive dividends in the long term. For the publisher working from home, the right technology is a force multiplier.
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