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  • ★ Catching up.

    Guess I should follow up with where I am with the projects from previous posts. Grocery lists (here and here): I’ve stopped adding them to the Numbers spreadsheet. Took too long and had some fragility issues around the script that processed the data on the Mac. Instead, I use Drafts to post things to the list…

  • ★ Adding Items to the Grocery List

    So last week I mentioned my shopping list spreadsheet. However, there’s one flaw. My Mac isn’t in the kitchen, and adding things to the spreadsheet via Numbers on my phone is… awkward at best. But I can send a text with my phone. And I have Messages running on my Mac. And I read this.…

  • ★ Grocery Lists & Data Collection

    I tend to be the one who does most of the grocery shopping for our family. I’ve always been curious about some of the data that could be collected – specifically, pricing data and how often we purchase certain items. So I built a spreadsheet. (You know how they say “To a child with a…

  • ★ Using Automator to Get At Things Applescript Won’t Cooperate With

    One of the things that drew me to the Mac was Applescript – the idea of a scripting language that would work with most of the programs in the OS was… well, pretty freaking cool. However, “most of the programs” eventually means “not the program I was using.” Then I came across this article –…