I’ve lost count of the horror stories I’m privy to. To say nothing of the way most students wing it with their data. A solid backup and recovery scheme is table stakes for most nerds, but in my experience the same can’t be said of academics. The past 18 months we’ve had some hardware failures that took me from feeling over-prepared to being relieved I have this all set up. A good example of a simple automation is how to automatically mount an external drive to create a bootable clone for backup. Better still, Mac automation can save you from having to remember those tasks. The native MacOS automator app alone can save you from boring and repetitive tasks. Fortunately, some of the most effective Mac automations are simple enough to get anybody started. I know some people find automation daunting. Copied is still working perfectly for me on macOS Mojave ↩Ĭategories Automation Tags Automation, Keyboard Maestro, macOS, Text Expander Unfortunately, neither app has been updated in a while, so I can’t vouch for their longevity.Most university libraries, and some public libraries have an EZProxy address, it shouldn’t be too difficult to find one you can access.Similar functionality can be found in Pastebot. With Copied, for example, you can setup templates to transform the text you copy, and activate them with hotkeys. This would be a trivial problem to solve with Alfred, either by creating a workflow, or by using Alfred’s text expansion utility.Īnother option is to use a clipboard manager. I already mentioned Alfred, which is easily as powerful as Keyboard Maestro. TextExpander’s builtin macros can add the system clipboardd to a snippet, simulate keystrokes, and more Other Options Obviously, you need to copy the URL before you type the abbreviation so you’re a keystroke ahead with the Keyboard Maestro version, if that matters to you. To make this work with TextExpander use the builtin macros to both grab the system clipboard macro and simulate keystrokes. As good as it is, the fact that I have Alfred on hand means TextExpander could probably be made redundant on macOS. I’m still using TextExpander, simply because there are no alternatives on iOS. Keyboard Maestro can simulate system shortcuts and keystrokes so one hotkey can do all the work Automate EZProxy with TextExpanderīuilt in Macros come standard with any decent text expansion app. This little macro is proof of that. Keyboard maestro can even simulate keystrokes, so using this method can even save you from hitting return. The good news is you don’t have to be a coding grand master for it to be useful. For one thing, it has a seriously misleading name, going well beyond the keyboard to hook into anything you could possibly want to do with macOs automation. Even so, I find Keyboard Maestro can be a little overwhelming at times.
I am slowly coming to terms with some of the intricacies of macOS automation. Open Closed Access Journals with EZProxy and Keyboard Maestro Here are a couple of simple methods for doing the same thing using macOs automation tools. All it does is copy the EZproxy address 1 to the start of a url to give you access to resources via your own university library. It’s a simple trick to short circuit the tedious cut and paste method. I shared an iOS Shortcut recently for opening academic journal articles via EZProxy.
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