Everything Old Is New Again: Saving Text to Obsidian from an Apple Watch via a Mac mini, Hazel, and Shortcuts
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Everything Old Is New Again: Saving Text to Obsidian from an Apple Watch via a Mac mini, Hazel, and Shortcuts
In late 2012, when I was starting to dip my toes into the beautiful world of iOS automation, I shared an elaborate system to save PDFs to Evernote running on a remote Mac mini by leveraging Pythonista, Dropbox, Hazel, and AppleScript to make it all happen with the press of a single button. The details are hazy at this point: I remember that the workflow was finicky at the beginning, but after I set it up, it served me well for months.
Eleven years later, I’m here today on MacStories Weekly to tell you about a workflow I put together to prepend some text to a note in Obsidian running on a remote Mac mini by leveraging Shortcuts, Hazel, and Zapier. Some things never change: they just get rebooted for a modern audience like a sitcom from the 90s.