Take Control of Automating Your Mac, 5th Edition

Run Actions Automatically

Recently I was setting up some background apps on one of my Macs to run every time I restart the computer and to relaunch automatically if they crashed. I was struck with the realization that, in earlier editions of this book, I had never explained how to do things like that—for all the examples of automation I gave, nearly all of them assumed that automated tasks would be triggered manually.

Let’s correct that! In this chapter I tell you about various ways you can get things to happen all by themselves on your Mac: after the initial setup there are zero clicks, keystrokes, or button presses required.

To be sure, other parts of this book already discuss ways of getting certain things to happen on their own. Hazel (see ...