Chapter 19. Ten Custom Automation Projects
IN THIS CHAPTER
The projects
Finding specific contacts in Address Book
Finding people with birthdays
Creating a group mailer
Finding specific Calendar items
Combining Mail messages
Adding attachments to messages
Extracting text from PDFs
Downloading specific URLs using Automator
Now that you've automated files, folders, music files, images, and text files, it's time to spread your wings a bit and take on a few projects that are a bit more challenging. In this chapter, you'll take everything you've learned and start applying it to e-mail messages, PDFs, iCal events, Address Book contacts, and RSS.
The Projects
This chapter will be a bit different. Instead of focusing on a specific type of automation task, it's going to have a range of tasks. One minute you'll be working with contacts in Address Book, and the next you'll be extracting text from PDFs. I'll also cover e-mail messages and RSS feeds.
Think of it as a culmination of everything you've learned so far and an opportunity to see the wider vistas of what's possible with automation.
The ten projects I'm going to cover are:
Finding specific contacts in Address Book
Finding people with birthdays
Creating a group mailer
Finding specific calendar items
Getting new Mail messages
Combining Mail messages
Adding attachments to messages
Extracting text from PDFs
Extracting PDF pages
Downloading specific URLs
Within each project, I'll use a similar framework to help you absorb what's going on — think of it as a series ...
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