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Get Productive with First-Class Mac Apps

Apple has launched a promotion on both the iOS App Store and the Mac App Store and I’m happy to be able to tell you that Yoink is part of it 🙂
Here’s a partial list of apps included in this Mac App Store Promotion:

  • Yoink ($2.99 instead of $6.99)
  • 1Password ($24.99 instead of $49.99)
  • Things ($24.99 instead of $49.99)
  • 2Do ($24.99 instead of $49.99)

… and many more 🙂

9to5mac has some more information and also lists the deals available to you on the iOS App Store – you can check them out here!

Yoink – 57% off for a limited time as part of the Mac App Store’s Get Productive promotion!

Enjoy 🙂

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I’m participating in TwoDollarTuesday’s Black Friday sale with some of my apps (MacStories has great coverage of over 200 deals as well) :

 

Yoink IconYoink
Simplify and improve drag and drop
40% off – Mac App Store; Website

Screenfloat IconScreenFloat
Create floating screenshots to keep references to anything visible on your screen
28% off – Mac App Store; Website

Transloader IconTransloader
start downloads on your Mac remotely from your iPhone or iPad
30% off – Mac App Store; Website

Glimpses IconGlimpses
turn your photos and music into stunning still motion videos
40% off – Mac App Store; Website 

 

I hope you’ve had a great Thanks Giving and are enjoying the Black Friday Sale that’s going on 🙂

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Yoink for Mac Usage Tip #8

The following explains how to add attachments directly from Mail.app into Yoink.
For more Usage Tips like this, click here.

Today, I received an eMail from Sandro G. asking me if there was a way to quickly add mail attachments from selected mails in Mail.app to Yoink.

The Problem

Sandro frequently adds attachments from mail messages in Mail.app to Yoink but says it can be cumbersome with lots of mails with a couple of attachments each.
I agree, having to select each mail message with an attachment, scrolling down and dragging each attachment to Yoink can take a lot of time.
Instead, he says, he’d like a way to just select the mail messages that contain the attachments, ideally press a keyboard shortcut and let Yoink do the rest, saving nerves and, most importantly of all, time.

The Solution

As with the “capture screenshots to Yoink”-problem, where Bogdan V. wanted to be able to take screenshots that automatically end up in Yoink, Automator seemed like a good solution for this.

I launched Automator and created a System Service – easily accomplished by creating a new project and selecting Service in the resulting dialog.
A system service is something you can either access through a contextual menu or by the applications Application menu -> Services, containing context-aware services, for example “Look up in Dictionary” or “New Email with Selection”.

Automator - New Project DialogAutomator’s New Project Dialog. Select Service and click on Choose.

The Automator Workflow

Automator - Finished workflowThe finished workflow.

Let’s go through it from the top. Specify the service to receive no input (as the other possible values don’t apply) and select Mail as the target application the Service should be available in.
Now we need three actions:

  1. Get Selected Mail Messages – creates a reference to the currently selected mails in Mail.app
  2. Get Attachments from Mail Messages – uses the references created before and saves their attachments to a folder, in this case the Default Mail downloads folder
  3. Open Finder Items – Action 2 passes the attachment files to this action, where we ask Yoink to open those files, resulting in them being added to Yoink’s files

Installation and Keyboard Shortcut

Once you save it, it should be automatically saved into your Services folder. If not, double-click the saved file and it should prompt you with this dialog – click Install and it should be installed correctly:
Automator - Service Installation
If you’d like a keyboard shortcut, it’s quickly done. Launch System Preferences, select Keyboard -> Shortcuts -> Services, scroll to find the service and set up your shortcut:
Service - Keyboard Shortcut
Now you can access the service either through this keyboard shortcut or the Services menu in Mail.app’s Mail menu:
Service Installed in Mail

Automator Workflow Download

For your convenience, here’s the workflow ready for download.
Unzip, double-click to install. Set up the optional keyboard shortcut – done 🙂
If you have any feedback, questions or improvements, please be sure to get in touch – by mail or twitter – I’m looking forward to hearing from you!
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