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          AppBITS: Stapler Opens Multiple Apps, Documents, and Folders

   Adam Engst

   I have a mental image of how a best-selling novelist sits down to work
   every day. (If that's you, feel free to set me straight.) I imagine
   them opening a specific set of apps and documents, arranging a few
   folders just so, cracking their knuckles, and starting to write.
   (There's usually a cat involved, too.) Perhaps they need a word
   processor with documents for the in-progress chapters of their latest
   thriller, a note-taking app where they keep ideas and snippets of text,
   various ebooks for historical reference, a particular playlist of
   music, and more. Rather than assemble all those items each time, my
   imaginary novelist could consider using [1]Stapler, a modern-day
   rewrite of a classic Mac app that enables a task-based way of working.
   They would add their desired apps, documents, and folders to a Stapler
   document, which stores aliases to them, after which double-clicking the
   Stapler document opens them all at once. If that sounds like a
   worthwhile way of setting up your working environment, read developer
   Matt Sephton's [2]introductory blog post, where he explains Stapler's
   theoretical and technical underpinnings, along with how he was inspired
   by Chris Patterson's Stapler from 1992 and Ali Rantakari's LaunchList
   from 2009. Stapler is free and works on macOS 12 Monterey and later.

   

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   1. https://github.com/gingerbeardman/stapler/blob/main/README.md
   2. https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2024/08/10/stapler-i-remade-a-32-year-old-classic-macintosh-app/

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