Mastodawn

If you use a lot of apps and want to get more out of automation, an easy trick is to point Claude or Codex at your Applications folder and have it research which apps offer CLI tools, APIs, AppleScript, Shortcuts, support, and more.

Then, save the catalog to memory for future automation sessions.

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mako 5d ago

@johnvoorhees That’s a good one. And I will add, on Mac, since apps like podcasts and books use local SQLite DB’s, it’s been pretty awesome/easy to build CLIs on them to get some functionality that’s missing (like extract hightlights from books or transcription from podcasts).

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Anthony Baker

@mako @johnvoorhees Yeah, rolling your own has been a pretty amazing unlock — especially ones that leverage other, supporting CLI tools to boost their capabilities.

Build a CLI to access the Reeder DB for RSS content, include a command in it to send specific items to Readwise Reeder via the Readwise CLI. Handy dandy.