Update March 4, 2008:I've updated the scripts so that they no longer cause Quicksilver to reactivate after finishing the task. If you'd like this functionality, you can re-download the scripts bellow, or you can just add the line "return null" (without the quotes) before the line "end process text" towards the end of the script.
After updating my backpack task script the other day, I got to work on the script for adding notes to a page. While doing this, I had some more ideas to make both scripts more powerful. I have a link here to the latest scripts.
Here is the general idea. The notes script allows you to add a note to a backpack page, obviously. You can either type just a line of text, which will create a note with no title, or you can type a title followed by a colon and then the body of the note and the script will create a note with a title and body.
The task script is even more exciting. If you just type a line of text, it will add an item to the list that you have specified in the script. If you type text followed by a colon and then more text, it will create the item in the list and then it will also create a note with that same text as the title, and the text following the colon as the body. So this:
Will result in this:
And this:
Will result in this:
So if you are the kind who likes to add notes to your list items, this is as close as you get with Backpack.
As usual, replace the variables at the top of the script with the ones from your account. This article gives the instructions for finding the information you need.
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An extraordinary job. I’m now using this Quicksilver action to send notes to my BackPack pages. Unfortunately, I usually add the title of the note as <h1>Note</h1></pre> and this causes the title not to be properly displayed. Could you please fix this?
The API is probably trying to interpret those as xml tags. At this point, I’m not sure how to tell the script to escape those.
