MacOS app that can be used to perform actions on a schedule

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At some time in the “recent” past I recall hearing about an app that I thought would enable me to run an Applescript daily to perform simple tasks. Of course I did not capture the name of the app at the time. Unfortunately gray hair seems to be adversely affecting memory and I can’t recall what or when I heard it.

Does this poor description strike a chord in anyone’s memory?

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If you want to automate things, get keyboard maestro

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You can do it with Cron tasks, maybe the app was a front end to that?

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While you can still get cron working on macOS, it was deprecated in favor of launchd a while ago[1] — so a front end to that might be the thing to search for.

  1. Mac crontab: How to create macOS startup jobs with crontab, er, launchd | running shell scripts and commands | alvinalexander.com ↩︎

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I use Keyboard Maestro to run an automation daily. I’ve also used the much more complicated launchctl command line and plist files… Keyboard Maestro is much better.

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At one time I used Apple Calendar alarms to run scripts. I have no idea if that still works

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Not sure if this is what you’re looking for, I feel like I’ve heard of another similar app too.

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Thanks to all responders - I will be looking into all of these options!

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Perhaps Scheduler for Mac?

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I use shortery for this purpose. Pretty powerful tool and easy to configure.

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