Martin Ström » things http://my-domain.se Tue, 15 May 2012 10:02:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 Push notifications for Things Touch (iPhone/iOS) using Prowl http://my-domain.se/push-notifications-for-things-touch-iphone-ios/ http://my-domain.se/push-notifications-for-things-touch-iphone-ios/#comments Wed, 30 Jun 2010 09:25:36 +0000 Martin http://my-domain.se/?p=387 While waiting for Things Touch to officially support push notifications I hacked my own solution based on Prowl and my own Ruby library for Things, things-rb.

Installation

  1. I’ve setup Dropbox to share my Things database betweeen my laptop and a computer at home which is always online.

  2. Buy and install Prowl on your iOS device.

  3. On the home computer/server, install things-rb:

    $ (sudo) gem update --system # if you're on an older RubyGems version
    $ (sudo) gem install things-rb

  4. ..and the prowl gem to talk to the Prowl API

    $ (sudo) gem install prowl

  5. Save this file somewhere (like ~/bin/prowl_things.rb)

  6. Setup a cronjob to run the script as often as you’d like. Mine runs every weekday at 8:45 am.

    45 8 * * 1-5 /usr/bin/ruby /Users/me/bin/prowl_things.rb

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Instead here’s an AppleScript which will take the selected message(s) and automatically create one task for each email in the “Next” focus in Things. It will then archive the mail messages and show a Growl notification. The todos in Things will get tagged with the “Reply” tag (which in my setup is a subtag of “Email”).

The script is a modified version of the one found here. I also put the script in an Automator action like described in the article so you can assign a shortcut key to it without including third party software.

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