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When run with Hazel, this script takes a Day One file and creates a sidecar Markdown file and an alias to that file. When the Day One entry is modified, so is the Markdown file, even if it is moved and/or renamed.
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| #!/usr/local/bin/ruby | |
| require 'plist' | |
| # Fix encoding errors | |
| if RUBY_VERSION =~ /2.2/ | |
| Encoding.default_external = Encoding::UTF_8 | |
| Encoding.default_internal = Encoding::UTF_8 | |
| end | |
| ## Change the next line so it points to your Day One file | |
| dayone_path = '/path/to/DayOneFile.dayone/entries/' | |
| # Get Day One file and parse it as a plist | |
| file_path = ARGV[0] | |
| result = Plist::parse_xml(file_path) | |
| uuid = result['UUID'] | |
| alias_path = "#{dayone_path}/#{uuid}.md" | |
| # If alias already exists, update the markdown file | |
| if File.exist?(alias_path) | |
| text = result['Entry Text'] | |
| content = "---\nUUID:\s#{uuid}\n---\n#{text}" | |
| path = %x{ osascript <<APPLESCRIPT | |
| tell application "Finder" | |
| set theItem to (POSIX file "#{dayone_path}/#{uuid}.md") as alias | |
| if the kind of theItem is "alias" then | |
| return the posix path of ((original item of theItem) as text) | |
| end if | |
| end tell | |
| APPLESCRIPT} | |
| path = path.chomp! | |
| f = File.open(path, 'w+') {|f| f.write("#{content}") } | |
| # If alias does not exist, create it as well as the Markdown file | |
| else | |
| text = result['Entry Text'] | |
| format = "---\nUUID:\s#{uuid}\n---\n#{text}" | |
| mark = "~/Desktop/#{uuid}.md" | |
| f = File.open(mark, 'w+') {|f| f.write("#{format}") } | |
| %x{ osascript <<APPLESCRIPT | |
| tell application "Finder" | |
| make new alias to file (POSIX file "#{mark}") at (POSIX file "#{dayone_path}") | |
| end tell | |
| APPLESCRIPT} | |
| end |
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Hi I'm not well versed in Ruby any Idea how to get around this issue?
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.2.0/gems/plist-3.1.0/lib/plist/parser.rb:105:in
'parse': Unimplemented element (RuntimeError) from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.2.0/gems/plist-3.1.0/lib/plist/parser.rb:29:inparse_xml'from /Users/marty/dotscripts/scripts/dayone_to_markdown.rb:16:in `