I wish Safari handled url scheme permissions the way the Shortcuts app does. Ask you once and then remembers your choice from that point on.
The one challenge with using url schemes to pass data from Drummer to any app (Shortcuts or Obsidian at the moment) always prompts a permission dialog box in Safari and Chrome on my Mac and iPad. I will have to live with it as that is the security model in both macOS and iPadOS. Sadly I can’t use the Scheduled scripts to pass data automatically due to this limitation. I’m going to look again at how shortcuts could possibly take care of this by pulling the opml from Drummer.
Back to working on integrating Drummer with Obsidian. Last night I discovered the reason my Shortcuts app on my Mac was so unresponsive was due to a corrupt SQLite database under the hood. Deleted it along with the other pref files in Library > Shortcuts and let them get rebuilt. Now the Shortcuts app is working the way I had expected! :)
I used to do a lot of Frontier scripting and automation back in the day and Drummer is starting to get me going in a similar direction.
My goal is to use Drummer for most of my data collecting and note taking and then pushing them into Obsidian as my main location for all of my data storage.
I’m looking into bypassing the shortcuts app and using Obsidan’s url scheme directly. Initial tests look promising. Using this approach would eliminate a lot of heartache on the Mac side with shortcuts being an unfinished product. Plus I can do a lot of text manipulation via the scripting interface of Drummer!
I’ve got a pretty good start on a script that will allow me to pass over the data from my outline entries via a Siri shortcut. The next step will be to pass this text over to Obsidian…
Now I am concentrating on learning what the limits are of Drummer’s scripting environment. I’ve already discovered that I can call a Siri shortcut using the verb webBrowser.openUrl(). I can see Drummer becoming my main way of launching all type of inter connected scripting environments starting with shortcuts! Very exciting!!
So now I’m using Drummer on my 11” iPad Pro and it’s working quite well! I take my this iPad Pro pretty much everywhere I go since I have an LTE SIM card I switch back and forth between my 12.9” and 11” iPad Pros.
I have discovered that deleting my outline doesn’t delete my micro.blog which is cool but now they are out of sync but that’s ok as I’m just experimenting at the moment.
Well gotta start over as I accidentally deleted my Drummer outline that I was using to create my micro.blog.
Working on a shortcut that will parse the OPML of this blog into JSON and finally into markdown to be stored in Obsidian.
Gotta look into changing the CSS used in my micro.blog site so lines like this won’t have an additional date.
So I decided to give Shortcuts on Monterey a try again since I had been attempting to use them all summer during the beta period but was just too painful! Alas, nothing has changed and the Shortcuts editor is basically too buggy to do anything worthwhile! Back to using it just on the iPad for the foreseeable future! Really too bad as I wanted to do something similar on the Mac with Drummer that I am doing with the iPad using some automation shortcuts.
Working with Secure Shellfish to upload files from my iPad Pro to my little used WordPress server and setting the clipboard to the path so I can add the image attribute. Tester.
So I wrote a python script on my Mac that uploads an image to my WordPress server that I’m not really using and puts the url on the clipboard so I can paste it into an attribute in Drummer like the image below. Very cool! I think I’m going to see if I can do something similar on my iPad Pro maybe with either Pyto or shortcuts.
Digging into Obsidian and seeing if there is some way to capture what I write on my gwthompson.micro.blog site in my vault.
A longer post that would be a normal post length in another blogging platform. I don’t know the limits of micro.blog but will find out soon enough! I think I might try using a custom domain eventually but for now I’ll use the default gwthompson.micro.blog.
Very cool!!
Posting to microblog from Drummer