Last week, in response to a plea from Steve; he and I wrote a AppleScript to solve his problem.
I’m now offering the Quick Links script up for grabs. The following serves as a summary of the script.
- Put the script in the ~/Application Support/NetNewsWire/Scripts folder.
- Select the script from NNW’s Script menu to activate.
What Happens
If you do not have a text file for that day then the script will create one. This file is named with a date stamp. This file is created in the ~/Application Support/NetNewsWire/QuickLinks folder. For every time the script is called it will create a new item in the text file, using Markdown syntax. A new text file is created for each day. New items are appended to the end of the current day’s text file.
Certain entities are recoded so they appear, but because I use word i of description of selectedHeadline all punctuation is stripped. If you really want all the punctuation use can change this part to character and increase the number in the repeat loop.
When you’re ready, copy the contents of the text file into your blog editing area.