Applescript clone and local implementation of Finder Catalog Numbers by Tyler Hall.
I really like the setup Tyler Hall created and documented for Finder Catalog Numbers, but wanted to make this a local implementation. I don't need to have multiple device support, just my laptop since that's my primary productivity device. I also wanted to have tags support since I share a lot of files with coworkers and I didn't want to confuse them with index numbers in the filenames.
- Create a
counter
folder under~/Documents
- Inside this folder create
counter.txt
with a single line of your starting index number (i.e.100000
) - or place these somewhere else on your system and update the scripts accordingly - Update the
pre
variable in the scripts to your preferred prefix - Tag to write tags to files and to power the
clog
search since there's no URI helper app here - TextExpander to replicate the
.cat
and.ncat
functions (optional) - see note below File Tags:
searching enabled in Alfred File Search to remove friction from indexed file searching (optional)- FastScripts for easy access to the scripts (optional)
Setup for TextExpander is fairly easy; just copy the contents of the te_read_counter
and te_write_counter
scripts to new Applescript expansions in TextExpander with the abbreviations .cat
and .ncat
respectively.