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Workflow (iOS): Check This Out
I use various services for web pages I want to take a deeper look at later, Pocket and Evernote being my favourites for my personal reading. However I frequently come across things I want to take a...
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Workflow (iOS): Archive Web Page to PDF
Continuing with my little spate of sharing workflows for the iOS app known as Workflow, I've decided to share another simple action extension workflow that allows you to save web pages as a simplified...
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TextExpander - Plain Text to HTML Paragraphs
TextExpander is one of my most frequently used Mac utilities and I have all sorts of snippets that help me with all sorts of tasks. From correcting my seldom perfect typing and inserting standard sets...
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TextExpander: Tab on iOS
Even with the advent of iOS8 and custom keyboards and customised keyboard lines in specific apps, one thing I still find myself wishing I could get on my iPhone and iPad keyboards is a tab key....
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The Most Common Failing in Business
During my career I’ve encountered dozens of processes, agreements, work packages, projects and changes that have, for one reason or another, failed. Whilst the contributing factors varied, there was...
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Visualization Solutions by Nakisa 4.3 Update Overview
In Q1 of 2015, Nakisa released the latest iteration of their visualisation suite (VSN) of applications - version 4.3. With 4.2 being an interim release for Nakisa's Performance and Goals product or...
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TextExpander: Clipboard Snippets Using Javascript
Smile Software have just released a new update to their TextExpander product that brought a particularly interesting new feature. The option to run JavaScript based snippets. At first this may appear...
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Workflow Examples
The Workflow app is one of my favourite iOS apps. Â As well as being incredibly innovative and useful in so many ways, it is also something I enjoy exploring and tinkering with. Â In fact I've pitched in...
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VBScript: Flip Line Endings
Recently I was working for a client who had particularly strict controls around access and tools that I could use. Whilst the bulk of the work I was carrying out on their Linux box could be managed...
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Workflow: Chaining Workflows
Workflow is a fantastic iOS automation app that allows you to do many wonderful, amazing and even crazy things. One of the problems for me through has been controlling process flow can be quite...
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Workflow: Blogging About Workflows
Since the release of the Workflow application for iOS I've written quite a few workflows and as time as permitted I've been sharing many of them out to the world via this site. They've taken the form...
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Workflow: Save Workflow Name & Link
Part of my blogging about Workflow workflows involves me capturing some basic details about the workflow. This includes the name of the workflow and the link to download it. As part of my reference...
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Workflow: Save Workflow File
This workflow I don't tend to use as part of the process of creating my blog post information. Rather it is a way of giving myself a backup of the workflow in case I need to restore it and find for...
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Workflow: Save Workflow Icon
One of the elements I use in my blog posts (among other places) are workflow icons. I try and choose meaningful pictographs for the icons (though the set could do with a significant expansion) and I...
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Workflow: Crop Workflow Screen Shot
A big piece of my workflow blogs (and something readers have commented on many times) are the workflow screen shots I produce. As detailed in the Blogging About Workflows blog post I take several...
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Workflow: Remove Recent Screen Shots
The final part of my blogging about Workflow workflows is focussed on tidying up. When I produce the composite screen shot described in the Blogging About Workflows blog post I almost always end up...
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Thought Asylum TextExpander Snippet Groups Update
Since the release of TextExpander 5 on OS X and TextExpander Touch 3 on iOS I've been updating and revising my TextExpander snippets to take advantage of some of the new functionality and to get some...
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Workflow: Getting Started with Workflow for iOS
I was recently having a discussion on Twitter about how to get into creating workflows for the amazing iOS app known simply as Workflow. It allows you to use Automator style actions to put together...
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Smart Quotes in TextExpander Form Fields
Today I was using one of my TextExpander snippets that utilises form fields to add some content to this site. I'm one of those people who still typically works in HTML when working with a content...
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TextExpander: Clipboard Underlining
A while back I refreshed and expanded upon my TextExpander snippet groups and promised to start covering some of the inner workings of what the snippets actually do. Today I found a bit of time to...
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