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This is a workflow for Editorial, a Markdown and plain text editor for iOS. To download it, you need to view this page on a device that has the app installed.

Description: Creates a new TXT file in Dropbox named with the current time stamp. Also sets a markdown date header with the time stamp.

Made by Macdrifter.com

Shared by: http://www.macdrifter.com/2013/08/create-new-time-stamped-files-in-editorial.html

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#coding: utf-8
import workflow
import os
import editor
import datetime
import webbrowser
import urllib

local_path = os.path.expanduser('~/Documents')

current_time = datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d_%H%M%S')

file_name = current_time+'.txt'

file_content = 'date: ' + current_time + '\n\n\n'

editor.set_file_contents(file_name, file_content,'dropbox')


webbrowser.open('editorial://open/' + urllib.quote(file_name) + '?root=dropbox')

action_in = workflow.get_input()

#TODO: Generate the output...
action_out = action_in

workflow.set_output(action_out)
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