{"id":3101,"date":"2015-11-02T10:00:45","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T15:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/red-sweater.com\/blog\/?p=3101"},"modified":"2015-11-02T13:29:49","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T18:29:49","slug":"quick-post-with-marsedit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/3101\/quick-post-with-marsedit","title":{"rendered":"Quick Post With MarsEdit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andy Ihnatko is giving MarsEdit a spin<\/a>, and had some good feedback for me with respect to a specific blogging workflow he’s trying to achieve. In short: he wants something more Twitter-like to dash off thoughts and publish them directly to a blog.<\/p>\n

\nWhat I really want is a system-wide hotkey. No matter where I am or what I\u2019m doing, tapping it causes a little note card window to pop up. I type a few sentences, maybe click a Twitter-style icon button to drop in a photo or paste in a link (which the app automatically grabs from the frontmost browser window), click the \u201cPost\u201d button, and then I\u2019m back to what I was doing before I had this brilliant idea for a quick post.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is in line with some other thoughts I’ve had about using MarsEdit for “micro-blogging,” since my friend Manton Reece<\/a> has been playing with the idea for a forthcoming product.<\/p>\n

It’s firmly on my “to do list” to support a feature like this, but I thought I’d put some effort into seeing how closely I can approximate the desired workflow with MarsEdit as it stands today. AppleScript to the rescue?<\/p>\n

Click to download: Quick Post.scpt<\/a><\/p>\n

This script takes advantage of the fact that MarsEdit’s scripting support lets you create a new post and populate it with arbitrary default values. It then uses a somewhat crude AppleScript trick of keeping the script running<\/em> until the newly created document is closed. Why? Because as its parting gift, it shuts the door on its way out, so to speak, by re-activating whatever app you were using when you invoked the script.<\/p>\n

Paired with FastScripts<\/a> or another keyboard shortcut tool for scripts, you can assign a global hotkey that empowers you to quickly create a new blog post in MarsEdit, send it, and then resume work on whatever it was you were doing previously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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