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Description: A workflow to manage story ideas saved in an Story Ideas.md document in Dropbox.

Stories can be deleted or extracted into its own document for editing.

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Get Current File Name ?
Include Folder
ON
Include Extension
ON
Set Variable ?
Variable Name
currentDoc
Value
Input
Open Story Ideas ?
File Name
Story Ideas.md
In Dropbox
ON
Document Text ?
Folded Text
  • Include
  • Replace with:
Filter for all story titles ?
Output Lines That
  • Contain
  • Don't Contain
  • Match Regular Expression:
\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}\s-\s.*
Output Format
  • Only Lines
  • Lines and Ranges
Set Variable ?
Variable Name
list
Value
Input
Select from List ?
Title
Story Ideas
List (Lines)
Input
Multiple Selection
OFF
Show in Popover
ON
Store chosen story idea ?
Variable Name
listitem
Value
Input
Document Text ?
Folded Text
  • Include
  • Replace with:
Select Range ?
Range (from:to)
listitem
Relative to
  • Entire Document
  • Current Selection
Set Variable ?
Variable Name
selstart
Value
Sel. Range: Start
Set Variable ?
Variable Name
selmid
Value
Sel. Range: End
Select Range ?
Range (from:to)
Sel. Range: End
Relative to
  • Entire Document
  • Current Selection
Extend Selection ?
Direction
  • Backward
  • Forward
  • Both
Unit
  • Start/End of Document
  • Start/End of Line
  • Number of Characters...
1
Selected Text ?
Entire Line(s)
OFF
Empty Selection Output
  • No Output
  • All Text
  • Closest Word
Folded Text
  • Include
  • Replace with:
Search for the first instance of YYYY-MM-DD after the selected story & output its range ?
Source Code
#coding: utf-8
import workflow
import re
import string

action_in = workflow.get_input()
#action_in = action_in.encode('utf-8')

matched = re.search('\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}\s-\s.*', action_in)
#TODO: Generate the output...
action_out = str(matched.start())

workflow.set_output(action_out)
Set Variable ?
Variable Name
selend
Value
Input+selmid
Select Range ?
Range (from:to)
0
Relative to
  • Entire Document
  • Current Selection
Show Alert ?
Title
Story Idea
Message
listout
Button 1
Open
Output Value
open
Button 2
Remove
Output Value
delete
Button 3
(don't show)
Output Value
Show Cancel Button
ON
Open ?
Run the block if
Input
  • is Equal to
  • is Not Equal to
  • Contains
  • Doesn't Contain
  • Matches Regular Expression
open
Set Variable ?
Variable Name
filename
Value
Year: 2001-Month: 01-Day: 01-Hour: 01 (24h)-Minute: 01_newstory.md
Select Range ?
Range (from:to)
selstart:selend
Relative to
  • Entire Document
  • Current Selection
Set Variable ?
Variable Name
newdoc
Value
Input
Replace Selected Text ?
Replacement Text
Generate Text ?
Text
newdoc
Find / Replace ?
Find
---
  • Case-insensitive (A = a)
  • Case-sensitive (A ≠ a)
  • Regular Expression
Replace with
Set File Contents ?
File Name
%var:filename
In Dropbox
ON
New Text
Input
If File Does Not Exist
  • Create
  • Stop Workflow
Select Range ?
Range (from:to)
0
Relative to
  • Entire Document
  • Current Selection
Stop ?
Stop
  • This Workflow
  • Repeat Block
Show HUD Alert
OFF
Message
Stopped
…End If
Delete ?
Run the block if
Input
  • is Equal to
  • is Not Equal to
  • Contains
  • Doesn't Contain
  • Matches Regular Expression
delete
Select Range ?
Range (from:to)
selstart:selend
Relative to
  • Entire Document
  • Current Selection
Replace Selected Text ?
Replacement Text
Stop ?
Stop
  • This Workflow
  • Repeat Block
Show HUD Alert
OFF
Message
Stopped
…End If