AppleScripts?

[Kyle DeMilo]

I'm giving Yojimbo another try as my digital junk drawer. Part of that involves me archiving copies of emails (I know, I know…).

Every AppleScript I could find is seemingly from 2007, 2008… and leans heavily upon Growl (remember Growl?) to do it's job. 

Is there a modern, “2022-macOS-12-Monterey” way of getting emails into Yojimbo using AppleScript that doesn't involve “printing” out a bunch of PDFs? I'd do it, but I lack the knowledge.

[Ulf Dittmer]

AppleScript hasn't changed much over the years, so I would expect old scripts still to work. You've probably found https://github.com/anoved/Yojimbo-Scripts to serve as inspiration. A while I got sent the following snippet to create new bookmarks by BareBones support; creating new notes would work similarly.

tell application "Yojimbo"

   set bookmarkName to "My Example Bookmark"

   set bookmarkURL to "http://www.example.com/"

   set bookmarkComments to "your comments go here"

   

   set newItem to make new bookmark item with properties {name:bookmarkName, location:bookmarkURL, comments:bookmarkComments}

   

   add tags {"a tag", "another tag", "important tag"} to newItem

end tell

A quick search for exporting mails found https://veritrope.com/code/export-apple-mail-messages-and-notes-to-text-files/. Adapting these two should allow you to export mails to Yojimbo. Feel free to post follow.up questions, and I'll try to help you get going.

Ulf

[Patrick Woolsey]

> On Mar 28, 2022, at 16:55, Kyle DeMilo <kyled...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I'm giving Yojimbo another try as my digital junk drawer. Part of that involves me archiving copies of emails (I know, I know...).


As a purely personal observation:

Though I do print the occasional message of especial value to PDF and import same to Yojimbo, I believe that email in general (and/or in bulk :-) is best stored in an email client rather than a digital junk drawer.

> Every AppleScript I could find is seemingly from 2007, 2008… and leans heavily upon Growl (remember Growl?) to do it's job.

Since Growl was exclusively a notification mechanism[*], I would be at least equally concerned about how much Apple Mail's scriptability may have changed.

[*: I expect it should be relatively straightforward to excise or comment out the portions of such script(s) which invoke Growl.]

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> Is there a modern, "2022-macOS-12-Monterey" way of getting emails into Yojimbo using AppleScript that doesn't involve "printing" out a bunch of PDFs? I'd do it, but I lack the knowledge.

I regret I'm not aware of any recent development along these lines.


Regards,

Patrick Woolsey
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