Please use this page as a table of contents for your scripts. In addition to linking to your script, you should also give a short description. If you haven't yet seen the Things AppleScript guide, please click the link below:
Things AppleScript Guide
Installing and running scripts
The Things AppleScript Guide doesn't currently contain information about how to write, install, or run a script. Until that's added, here's a brief description:
Enabling the Script menu
- Launch /Applications/AppleScript/AppleScript Utility.
- Select Show Script menu in menu bar if it's not already selected.
- Quit AppleScript Utility.
A paper-scroll icon will appear in your menu bar. This is the script menu.
Using scripts from this wiki
- Click the Download link to download the script to your Mac.
- If there's no download link, then click the View Source link, copy the source code, and follow the To write your own script instructions below.)
- If the download doesn't start automatically, Ctrl-Click the download link and choose Download Linked File As... In your download folder select the file and remove the .html ending leaving only the .scpt ending if needed.
- In the Finder, open the newly downloaded script. The Script Editor application will launch.
- To run the script, click the Run button.
Writing your own script
- In /Applications/AppleScript on your Mac, launch the Script Editor application.
- Type a script, or paste in source code that you've copied from elsewhere.
- Run the script by clicking the Run button. Correct any errors.
- Repeat Step 3 until the script works.
Using keyboard shortcuts for scripts
- Download or write a script.
- Use a keyboard shortcut utility to assign a keyboard shortcut to running the script.
Now you can use a keyboard shortcut to run a script—from Things or elsewhere.
Installing a script in the Scripts menu
- Save the script if you haven't already done so.
- Copy the .scpt file to ~/Library/Scripts/Applications/Mail (or other folder as appropriate for the application where you want the script to appear).
- In Mail (or other application), open the Scripts menu and select the new script.
See Also
- AppleScript: Import Scripts
- Scripts to import data from third-party applications or other data sources
- AppleScript: Export Scripts
- Scripts to export data from Things' Library
- AppleScript: Integration Scripts
- Scripts to integrate other applications into Things
- AppleScript: Utility Scripts
- Little helper scripts for various tasks