Hazel rules

I currently use Hazel to instantly commit any changes I make to all the curated lists I maintain. As well as CSV files of Web Searches and Ask Create Share.

I also automate committing the README of this my macOS repo & iOS repo as I want to instantly push any changes I make.

Since I want to keep my macOS repo always updated, I made a macro to open the README file in Sublime Text so I can quickly make a change, save and the change will instantly be committed with readme: update message.

The Hazel rule for this is simple and looks like this:

With this as the shell script:

Here it is in code:

git add README.md
git commit -m "readme: update"
git push

~/Downloads

I use prefixes for most files. This allows me to write some great rules for my Downloads folder that will file the files where I want them to be based on the prefix.

Here is one example of such rule:

It checks if the file is a PDF file, and has its name starting with r., it will automatically move the file to my ~/Documents/papers directory synced with iCloud. This rules won't automatically work for you but you can take ideas from some of these rules.

There are also rules I made that will automatically trash any opened .alfredworkflow files as I never want to keep them hanging after I opened the newly downloaded workflow in Alfred Preferences.

Syncing

I sync all my Hazel rules with Dropbox.