David and Katie dive deep on Mac automation assistant Hazel, discuss how to get started and ideas for file and document based automation and give ideas of how they're using the program. David also announces a new MacSparky Video Field Guide.

Thanks to MPU listener Jigar Talati for help with the shownotes this week!

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Links and Show Notes:

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Noodlesoft – Noodlesoft – Simply Useful Software

Mac Power Users #25: Geeking Out With Hazel - Relay FM

Hazel Field Guide — MacSparky

AppleScript - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

AppleScript is a scripting language created by Apple Inc. and built into Macintosh operating systems since System 7. The term "AppleScript" may refer to the scripting system itself, or to an individual script written in the AppleScript language.

Her (2013) - IMDb

Ex Machina (2015) - IMDb

Scanbot

Scanner Pro 7 by Readdle

PDFpen Scan+: Scanning and OCR for iPad and iPhone

Unclutter for Mac

Aptonic - Dropzone 3

Automatically OCR Documents with Hazel and PDFpen — Katie Floyd

Automatic Document Redaction with PDFpen — Katie Floyd

Discover new Recipes - IFTTT

Spock's Funeral - Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan - YouTube

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