Anything repetitive or that could be automated: renaming files, sorting files, setting labels...different apps do different things - look in Automator for the list of functions (eg exporting PDF as one page one file)
>From my iPhone On 3 Sep 2013, at 13:41, mac98aop <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Jason > > I guess my point is I don't know what I want to do, as I don't really know > what Automator can do? > > Hence, I hoped folks who use it might share their top uses and whet my > appetite? > > Thanks > > > On Monday, September 2, 2013 8:07:31 AM UTC+1, mac98aop wrote: >> >> Hello all >> >> Treated myself to MacFormat for poolside reading whilst on hols, and had a >> useful piece on 50 forgotten Mac features. Yup, I'd forgotten lots of them! >> >> One thing I've never really gotten up to speed with, that it mentioned, is >> Automator. >> >> I use Alfred, which I suspect achieves a fair bit of what Automator can do >> (?) but wonder if any of you have any 'must have' workflows you could share >> that would start me off in the right direction please? >> >> Bye for now >> >> Adam > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
