🤖️ Automator Tools

What's this ?

This is a collection of utilities I made using the macOS Automator, with predefined workflow, Applescript, shell script etc.

Tools In Collection

🆚 Open In VSCode

Open folders or files in vscode

Install

1. Copy it to /Applications folder or make an alias in that folder if you like.
2. Press command key (⌘) and Drag the app to Finder's toolbar to add.
3. If you experience permission error, refer to caveats section

Usage

In finder app, Click the toolbar icon with:
Nothing selected: Open current directory
Single or multiple file(s) / folder(s) selected: Open vscode window for each selected item.

🖥️ Open In iTerm2

Open folders or files in iTerm2

Install

Same as Open in vscode

Usage

In finder app, Click the toolbar icon with:
Nothing selected: Open new iTerm2 tab for current finder directory
Single or multiple file(s) / folder(s) selected: Open each selected item in one iTerm2 window as tabs.

🙈 Toggle Hidden Files

Click to show/hide hidden files in finder
It sends command + shift + . shortcut to current finder window.

Install

Same as Open in vscode

Usage

Just click it.

💬 Wechat 2

Open another Wechat to login a different account

Install & Usage

Drag it to /Applications folder and use it like a normal app.

🖋️ Restart IME

Sometimes the IME process of mac will hang the whole system, after opening for a long time without restart, see this and that. This app will restart the IME process to resolve it.

Install & Usage

Same as Wechat 2

Caveats

Fix permission

Run the script:

sudo bash ./tools/enable-apps.sh

Change icon

For copyright consideration, the repo will not include icon files. If you want to change the icon of each tools, follow this tutorial.