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Applescript to save `[ x ]` symbols in nvALT as OmniFocus tasks
on hazelProcessFile(theFile)
set p to POSIX path of theFile
set l to paragraphs of (do shell script "grep '\[ x \]' " & quoted form of p)
tell application "OmniFocus" to tell document 1
repeat with v in l
set taskName to (do shell script "n="" & v & ""; echo ${n:6}")
set taskNote to "Created from nvALT: nvalt://find/" & my encode_text(my remove_extension(my basename(p)), true, false)
make new inbox task with properties {name:taskName, note:taskNote}
end repeat
end tell
end hazelProcessFile
on basename(thePath) -- Requires POSIX path
if thePath ends with "/" then
set nameIndex to -2
else
set nameIndex to -1
end if
set ASTID to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "/"
set thePath to text item nameIndex of thePath
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ASTID
return thePath
end basename
on encode_char(this_char)
set the ASCII_num to (the ASCII number this_char)
set the hex_list to {"0", "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "A", "B", "C", "D", "E", "F"}
set x to item ((ASCII_num div 16) + 1) of the hex_list
set y to item ((ASCII_num mod 16) + 1) of the hex_list
return ("%" & x & y) as string
end encode_char
on encode_text(this_text, encode_URL_A, encode_URL_B)
set the standard_characters to "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789"
set the URL_A_chars to "$+!'/?;&@=#%><{}[]"~`^\|*"
set the URL_B_chars to ".-_:"
set the acceptable_characters to the standard_characters
if encode_URL_A is false then set the acceptable_characters to the acceptable_characters & the URL_A_chars
if encode_URL_B is false then set the acceptable_characters to the acceptable_characters & the URL_B_chars
set the encoded_text to ""
repeat with this_char in this_text
if this_char is in the acceptable_characters then
set the encoded_text to (the encoded_text & this_char)
else
set the encoded_text to (the encoded_text & encode_char(this_char)) as string
end if
end repeat
return the encoded_text
end encode_text
on remove_extension(this_name)
if this_name contains "." then
set this_name to ¬
(the reverse of every character of this_name) as string
set x to the offset of "." in this_name
set this_name to (text (x + 1) thru -1 of this_name)
set this_name to (the reverse of every character of this_name) as string
end if
return this_name
end remove_extension
on replaceString(theText, oldString, newString)
local ASTID, theText, oldString, newString, lst
set ASTID to AppleScript's text item delimiters
try
considering case
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to oldString
set lst to every text item of theText
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to newString
set theText to lst as string
end considering
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ASTID
return theText
on error eMsg number eNum
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ASTID
error "Can't replaceString: " & eMsg number eNum
end try
end replaceString
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