![]() It’s the “Invite to Share My Screen” option. Luckily, there’s another menu item in iMessage, just above the “Ask to Share Screen” item. Realized what an awful idea that would be. Given my propensity for making very bad, very unsafe automations, you may be imagining that I just created a Keyboard Maestro macro that would watch for the “Incoming Screen Sharing Request” notification and click “Accept”. I don’t need to open ports on my router or run a private VPN, I just open iMessage, select the person I want to Screen Share with, and click “Ask to Share Screen”. They’re simple, easy to use, and (miraculously) they just work. The Screen Sharing tools built into iMessage are great. But after about a half-dozen requests, I knew I needed a better solution. Which, according to my research, is an application that does…something.įashion, the solution that had the most success was texting my wife at home and asking her to click “Accept” on the iMessage Screen Sharing request that I was sending from my work computer. It didn’t like my company’s port mapping. I needed to control it via some form of screen sharing. I quickly found I needed more than just “access to the data” on that computer. Go figureįor the past few weeks, I’ve been looking around for ways to “get to” my home iMac from my iMac at work. There are, it seems, some workflow issues that can’t solved by just putting things in Dropbox. ![]() But trying to manage Macs that are in different physical locations, on different networks, has really put some of my workflows to the test. So I have Hazel take a daily backup of it for me and throw it into Dropbox.Įmail me or leave a comment if you have cool Hazel rules to share.I’ve always found it fairly easy to manage my multiple Macs with tools like Dropbox, the Mac App Store, and iCloud. But from time to time I want to do a clean install of OSX on my Mac and the Stickies database usually isn’t something I remember to backup, because it’s buried in the app directory. I use Stickies a lot to store bits of data I often need quickly – eg URLs for podcast feeds that people ask me for, Textexpander shortcuts, Macbook keyboard shortcuts, etc. Hazel then grabs the new text file (from the Calibre directory) and opens it in Evernote. So when I download a new Kindle book from Amazon, Hazel notices the new file (in the Kindle folder), and opens it in Calibre, when then converts the epub into a text file. That way I can pull them up on my phone or Mac whenever I need them, but they are out of the way.įor all of my history podcasts, I like to have text versions of my source books in Evernote so I can cut and paste as needed. Photos and videos take up a lot of room too, so I use Hazel to take all of them that are a month old and archive them to Dropbox. Macbook drives are pretty low on storage these days, and I deal in a lot of large audio files, so I need Hazel to keep a close eye on them and offload them onto USB drives about a month after I create them. This rule I created early in 2015 to archive files off of my Macbook Pro drive is still working great, albeit with a few minor tweaks. I’m always looking for new ways to use it and I guess it’s time I give back by sharing some more of my favourite rules. I’ve been listening to a recent episode of Mac Power Users dedicated to Hazel. I fucking LOVE Hazel and it’s one of those tools that I love to tinker with (but try and limit how much time I sink into it).
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