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Applescript to "sync" iCal to your Hipster PDA

Merlin Mann | Oct 27 2005

mccamon.org

Mike McCamon offers a clever way to get just his task list from iCal printed onto index cards for his Hipster PDA. Applescript to the rescue:

Then I went to print. Crap. I can't print just the Task list - I have to take the Calendar too. Enter AppleScript. With a little copy and pasting from code I found around the web I came up with a script to print only the Tasks of a selected Calendar. I also modified that script to print me all my Next Actions from all my Calendars.

Haven't tried it yet (not an iCal user, myself), but given the number of folks linking to Mike, I suspect it must work.

Also, +1 for the excellent disclaimer, Mike; I can see we share a personal liability.

[ via Sync Your HipsterPDA to Your Mac - Lifehacker ]

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TOPICS: Apple, Macs & OS X, Getting Things Done, iCal, Index Cards, Life Hacks, Lifehacker, Lofi, Mac OS X, Personal Productivity, Tricks
JamesPr's picture

Has anyone gotten those scripts...

Submitted by JamesPr (not verified) on October 27, 2005 - 12:13pm.

Has anyone gotten those scripts to work? I downloaded them and they are just a bunch of crazy characters--And the computer wants to open them up in Script Editor because they have the extension .scpt. How do you use these things?

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