Folder Actions for Keep It
Saving files Directly to Keep It's Folders
Any file or folder added to one of Keep It's library folders will be automatically imported. To make saving files directly to Keep It convenient, create an alias to its files folder wherever you like:
- Choose Keep It > Library > Make Alias to Files Folder from the menu
- Heed the warnings and click Continue
- Choose a location and click Save
Watching a Different Folder
However, if you want to watch another folder for changes, you can do that with Folder Actions. The Automator app makes it easy to set these up.
- Open Automator
- Select Folder Action and click Choose
- Use the Choose Folder pop-up button to select the folder to monitor
- Drag a Run AppleScript action from the middle column to add it
- For the script, copy and paste the following:
on run {input, parameters}
tell application "Keep It"
repeat until top level folder is not missing value
delay 1
end repeat
set theFiles to input as alias
add files theFiles by moving with always keep both
end tell
return input
end run- Choose File > Save from the menu
- Enter a name for the folder action and click Save
The end result should look like this:
Now, whenever a file is added to that folder, it'll be moved to Keep It.