
This should be set to the portion of a Dropbox url for a file in your “Public” folder. The only setup you need to do is to open the workflow in Automator and edit the USERID variable at the very top of the Run Shell Script action. dropboxid in your Home folder.įor simplicity’s sake, just copy the 5-digit number from a public URL, then run this in Terminal: pbpaste > ~/.dropboxid. Follow the same steps to retrieve it, but then paste it into a file called.
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Update (1.0.1) The instructions below will still work, but you can also use a dotfile to define the Dropbox user ID. You can also go in and edit them manually if you’re industrious and need a quick fix. You can remove them from public view by deleting or moving those files at any time. HTML files are stored in ~/Dropbox/Public/LinkCollections (it will make the folder if needed) and named with a timestamp. The output page has updated styling (compared to the original Collections Service) and works on small (mobile) screens. Like the original “Collections” Service, it includes an “open all” link that will restore the entire session with a single click. Run it, and whatever tabs are open in the front window of your browser (Chrome or Safari) will be collected into a web page and a Dropbox public URL will be placed on your clipboard for sharing.
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I knocked it out as an Automator workflow today.īorrowing from the Markdown Service Tools browser commands and the original Dropbox Collection Service I made a few years ago, “Share Tab Collection” is a useful tool for anyone who collects in browser tabs during meetings, brainstorming sessions, podcasts, or any time you have a browser full of tabs and want to distribute them.

Rick Martin left a comment on my “Write Better Markdown” post that reminded me of a relatively simple amalgamation of projects I’d had in the back of my mind for a couple of years now. Since it doesn’t absolutely require user editing now, it’s also codesigned to avoid any issues. Fixes Safari functionality and allows the optional use of a dotfile ( ~/.dropboxid with the 5-digit Dropbox user id in it) instead of modifying the script directly. Update: Version 1.0.1 is now the current download.
