Hints & Tips

May 14th, 2005

Schedule Workflows via iCal

This fantastic tip for scheduling Automator comes to us from MacOSXHints, and it’s one a lot of people have asked about.

To schedule a workflow to run at specific times using iCal:

If iCal is not running at the scheduled time, the workflow will run when iCal is next opened.

A reader points out this more direct method:

“Save As Plug-In…” your workflow
Choose Plug-In for: “iCal Alarm” in the pop-up menu of the dialog box that appears
iCal opens itself and automatically creates an event with an alarm that opens your workflow

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[...] reading this article from Automator World and discovering that with Snow Leopard there is a new template [...]

Pingback by Productivity iCal Alarm - Writings of a Perpetual Novice — March 26, 2010 @ 11:23 am
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Yay this is awesome, I use this to mute my MacBook’s volume so it doesn’t wake me up at night.

Comment by Mr. Man — February 11, 2010 @ 10:51 pm
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Um yeah, as you can see, I forgot what the original post was about here. Stupid.

Comment by Morgan Daly — October 24, 2005 @ 1:24 am
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OK, so I can’t get things to work as perfectly as I would like, but I am learning a lot along the way. If you want to save a workflow as a plugin, you can choose to save it as an iCal alarm. Wicked. Maybe you guys could do a special post on peoples iCal alarm workflow ideas?

This would be perfect. Set an iCal alarm that when it went off it would grab the emails from a specified AddressBook group, add those to the bcc field of a new message, show me the message, so I can check it before sending it. The grab emails from group and add to bcc field is the bit I can’t work out.

Thanks

Comment by Morgan Daly — October 20, 2005 @ 7:56 pm
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Great tip. Exactly what I needed. Thanks so much for sharing it.

Comment by Maria Langer — September 27, 2005 @ 12:14 pm

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