Posts tagged ‘numbers’
AppleScript, Numbers, and receipts
February 9th, 2012 at 10:43 pm by Dr. Drang
You have, no doubt, already seen Shawn Blanc’s receipt organizing AppleScript. He takes photos of his receipts with his iPhone and uploads them to Dropbox.1 This triggers an AppleScript folder action that puts the receipt photos into Yojimbo with appropriate tags. Because I don’t use Yojimbo, I can’t use the script, but it did get…
Old problem, new trick
January 26th, 2012 at 10:49 pm by Dr. Drang
I went on a business trip to upstate New York this week and tried out a new system for keeping track of my expenses. It’s simple enough that I might actually stick with it. There are a bunch of expense tracking apps for the iPhone. Most of them either require you to open some sort…
Quick email list
May 25th, 2010 at 11:20 am by Dr. Drang
Continuing my series of occasional posts on scripting as a way of quickly eliminating the drudgery of computer work, today I’ll describe how I generated a nice-looking list of email addresses from a spreadsheet. My wife and I are the parent organizers of the water polo team at our neighborhood pool, and this morning I…
