{"id":281,"date":"2007-11-28T22:20:11","date_gmt":"2007-11-28T22:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reinventedsoftware.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/28\/together-tip-watched-folders\/"},"modified":"2008-08-20T05:54:28","modified_gmt":"2008-08-20T05:54:28","slug":"together-tip-watched-folders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reinventedsoftware.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/28\/together-tip-watched-folders\/","title":{"rendered":"Together Tip: Watched Folders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> The ability to automatically import files added to Together&#8217;s library folders was added in Together 2.1 &#8211; See <a href=\"https:\/\/reinventedsoftware.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/22\/together-21-new-ways-to-import\/\">Together 2.1 &#8211; New Ways to Import<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had a few requests for watched folders in Together, the idea being that you can save a file in a folder and it is automatically imported into Together.<\/p>\n<p>This approach will also work well for scanned documents and the good news is you don&#8217;t have to wait for me to clear my email deluge and get back to some development, you can do this with a little Automator. Here&#8217;s how:<\/p>\n<p>Any file opened in Together will automatically be added to the library, so all you need is a simple Automator workflow, with one action in it, like this:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/reinventedsoftware.com\/blog\/images\/together_automator.png\" alt=\"Open in Together Automator action\" width=\"498\" height=\"103\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s one you can download: <a href=\"http:\/\/reinventedsoftware.com\/together\/downloads\/OpenInTogether.zip\">OpenInTogether.zip (26KB)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To use it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Uncompress the file and open it in Automator.<\/li>\n<li>Choose File > Save As Plug-in from the menu.<\/li>\n<li>From the &#8220;Plug-in for&#8221; pop-up choose &#8220;Folder Actions&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>From the &#8220;Attached to Folder&#8221; pop-up, choose the folder to watch.<\/li>\n<li>Click Save.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/reinventedsoftware.com\/blog\/images\/together_folder_plugin.png\" alt=\"Saving automator action as a plug-in\" width=\"434\" height=\"172\" \/><\/div>\n<p>After that, any files saved or moved into that watched folder will then be imported into Together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note: The ability to automatically import files added to Together&#8217;s library folders was added in Together 2.1 &#8211; See Together 2.1 &#8211; New Ways to Import for more information. I&#8217;ve had a few requests for watched folders in Together, the idea being that you can save a file in a folder and it is automatically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-together"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reinventedsoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reinventedsoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reinventedsoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reinventedsoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reinventedsoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/reinventedsoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359,"href":"https:\/\/reinventedsoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions\/359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reinventedsoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reinventedsoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reinventedsoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}