30 Boxes and Quicksilver (with Growl)

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Gotta love 30 Boxes, and I know you love Quicksilver. Throw in Growl and I think we’ve got an applescript…

This script has made it to the official downloads section. Please see the onebox download page for the link and instructions.

Okay, so the idea would be to pop up Quicksilver and type “meeting with Bob (remember laptop) Tuesday 1pm”, hit tab, type “one” (for onebox, the name of the script) and hit enter. That would be all there is to it. You would get a Growl notification and everything. It works for me, let’s see if it works for you.

Download the script and open it up in script editor.

Log in to your 30 Boxes account and go to this page. You’ll see in the sample link your API Key and User Token. You’ll need to put both of these into their appropriate places in the script.

Once that’s done, save the script into:

~/Library/Application Support/Quicksilver/Actions

and you should be good to go. Just do what it says in the second paragraph and you should be posting to your 30 boxes account like a pro.

After a little experimenting on someone else’s machine I found it necessary to make sure that Enable Advanced Features is checked on the Quicksilver preference pane. A restart of Quicksilver was necessary to get the action to show up.

This script has been adapted from an original idea found at fitzage.com.

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  1. Stuart Maxwell 04.15.07 / 10pm

    This is pretty cool, but I can’t see my User Token. I can generate one for the test page, but how do I do that for the onebox script?

  2. Kai 04.16.07 / 1am

    Quicksilver is such a cool app. Thanks for showing 30 boxes. It seems like this could be a “dream-team”… By the way i LOVE your site, such a great design and fluid… thanks

  3. brett 04.16.07 / 5am

    @Stuart: You should just be able to copy the authorizedUserToken field right from the API page if you’re logged in. It worked for me…

  4. Stuart Maxwell 04.16.07 / 10pm

    Ah-hah! The page didn’t scroll to the anchor tag in your link, so I missed getting the proper key the first time. Works now. Brilliant!

  5. Jeff 05.10.07 / 11am

    That’s a great little script! Thanks.

    Any deas on how to make a version for 30 Boxes to-do items?

  6. brett 05.10.07 / 12pm

    This should do the trick for you.

  7. Jeff 05.11.07 / 4am

    That’s an even better little script! Thanks again. And for the phenomenally quick turn-around.

    It’s so useful - I think it might even save me up to an hour a week. That’s an extra week’s holiday a year :-)

    Anywhere I can donate a few beers worth of dollars?

  8. brett 05.11.07 / 6am

    I don’t have any official “Donations” link set up, but my paypal account is always open for business at ttscoff [at] hbci.com. Thanks!

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