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Re: Show HN: Schedule iMessage Texts from .txt Files

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Post by dambi0 »

xyst wrote: post #21

If you don’t have an Apple computer but have an iOS device, you can also do something similar with the “Shortcuts.app” + “Calendar.app”. I have a daily shortcut that runs at X time. Shortcut checks a calendar for events, if today contains one or more events. It will parse the text from these events (comma separated fully qualified phone numbers or iMessage accounts), and send the message contained in the body of the…

I believe you can run shortcuts on an Apple computer too.

Re: Show HN: Schedule iMessage Texts from .txt Files

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Post by marcellus23 »

FirmwareBurner wrote: post #44
marcellus23 wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think there's just as much unreasonably anti-Apple activity on HN as there is pro-Apple -- if you think otherwise (in either direction), it's probably your bias showing.

>I think there's just as much unreasonably anti-Apple activity on HN as there is pro-Appl No there isn't. Pro-Apple comments don't get downvote bombed and flagged for no reason as much as those anti-Apple. If you don't see this it's your bias showing. And what was "unreasonably anti-Apple" in that comment that it needed be flagged? By market share it's true, for most people saying "a computer" is gonna mean a PC, not…

Since neither of us actually have any data to show, it's more reasonable to assume that the anti- and pro-Apple behavior is equal than that one is more common. To proclaim, lacking any actual data, that one is more common and that it just happens to be the one that matches up with your preconception, suggests confirmation bias.

> And what was "unreasonably anti-Apple" in that comment that it needed be flagged?

Please show me where I said that comment was unreasonably anti-Apple, or that it deserved to be flagged.

Re: Show HN: Schedule iMessage Texts from .txt Files

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Post by raybb »

Solvency wrote: post #19
baxtr wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Awesome! I wish iMessage had an api so that you didn’t need to go through a computer to do these things.

? Everything goes through a "computer"...

They probably meant computer as in a desktop OS instead of from their iPhone.

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Post by thedays »

xyst wrote: post #21

If you don’t have an Apple computer but have an iOS device, you can also do something similar with the “Shortcuts.app” + “Calendar.app”. I have a daily shortcut that runs at X time. Shortcut checks a calendar for events, if today contains one or more events. It will parse the text from these events (comma separated fully qualified phone numbers or iMessage accounts), and send the message contained in the body of the…

This sounds like a good solution.

Can you provide an example or two of how you format the events in your calendar to allow them to be sent at a scheduled time by the Shortcuts app?

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Post by alwillis »

ddtaylor wrote: post #31
mrweasel wrote: post #22

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If given the choice between writing AppleScript or Python I'm picking Python. Maybe Python can generate my AppleScript is really as close as I want to be to AppleScript.

Not me—give me AppleScript.

I get that it’s fashionable to rag on AppleScript. But for this particular use case—a scriptable app on macOS—AppleScript is the way to go.

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