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Automator mac hack3/1/2023 You can change the file name and the date and time formatting to your liking (try "man date" in Terminal to see more formatting options), and it's easy to pick another of the built-in system sounds as an alert if you want (they're all stored in the same directory). It just runs the shell script code shown that first logs (appends) the current date and time to a text file, and then plays an audio alert to let you know that it worked:ĭate +"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S" > ~/timestamps.txt To set it up, first create a "Quick Action"-type workflow in Automator as shown below. Note that this doesn't add time stamps or chapter markers to a movie file it just saves the current time in a separate text file. This makes it easy to find the time stamps again in a video recording later even just by looking for the characteristic spike in the audio waveform in apps like iMovie or ChronoViz. It also plays a sound each time a timestamp is added. I wrote it to create time stamps while recording a screen cast using QuickTime Player, so that it's easier to go back to important moments in the recording later. This is a simple hack to log the current time in a text file while doing other tasks in macOS Mojave (10.14).
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