But on some metal enclosures, my phone just wouldn’t read them. The small tags I have work perfectly off drives and on plastic enclosures. NFC tags are fun – but they aren’t very compatible with a taste for sleek/modern looking external drives, at least not if those drives have the wrong kind of metal enclosure.Opened the drive’s file structure to the degree I wanted in the Finder (list view), selected everything, copied (cmd-c), and then pasted in a blank BBEdit document this gave me an unindented list of files, which I could then indent manually (if it wasn’t too long) – useful for drives with Time Machine backups of multiple machines, for example, where you don’t necessarily want every file, just the names of the machines
I also discovered I don’t necessarily need/want every single file in a catalog (down to the last plist item in a clone backup…).ĭragged the icon for the drive from Finder into a blank BBEdit document BBEdit automatically created a nicely indebted and complete file tree or The shell command above worked for cataloging a disk, but the results weren’t very readable.
#OBSIDIAN NOTEPLAN UPDATE#
Just an update with a couple discoveries: I use Drafts on both, but just to create notes, not to store them. I do use Shortcuts and Scriptable (preferred) on iOS, as well as 1Writer. On my Mac, I use Keyboard Maestro, TextExpander and Hammerspoon pretty regularly, have Hazel and would love to use it more, and I’m not on Monterrey, so no Shortcuts on Mac.
#OBSIDIAN NOTEPLAN MAC#
Update (or replace) a plain-text file list on a Mac with the contents of an external drive? Ideally this would happen on dismounting, to capture any backup changes, but I realize other triggers could be easier. Open a plain text or csv document on my iPhone when I tap an NFC tag? So… bright Automators, what’s the best way to (in order of importance): Preferably, that contents list is stored in the cloud (iCloud or Dropbox) and is plain text or csv - I try to keep everything I can in plain text, and use nvUltra, Obsidian, NotePlan and similar apps to view and edit. It occurs to me: I should be able to stick a tag on each drive and set my phone to show me a contents list when I tap a tag. I also have some NFC tags lying around that I’ve never figured out what to do with. It’s hard to remember what’s on which, despite naming them, labeling them with their names and writing down … somewhere … what’s on them. I have several external drives hanging around.
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