brainstorming with Ted about scripting

Elements of scripting

• Actions (Commands)
  • menus
  • should be able to invoke commands from scripts, including other scripts

• Find well known items
  • UI elements
  • Collections
  • Misc items like "me", accounts, etc.

• Alter/adjust/customize presentation
  • script friendly way to tweak views
  • can probably get away with this being a matter of tweaking well known items, data driven

• Change domain model
  • Items (content items)
  • Collections

• Triggers to fire off scripts
  • Reminders (time based)
  • Data into the app
  • Data leaving the app
  • Some data condition is triggered

questions

• scripts vs parcels
  • scripts are lightweight
  • should be able to write them quickly
  • enable web 2.0 mashup

script examples/ideas

• move things around based on calendar data (content of items)
• reminder goes off, script runs
• Ted scripts omnioutliner (will write it up)
  • builds views by gathering data (not customizing the presentation, more the data)
  • setup: in chandler would create kinds/attributes before writing the script, script can depend on these
• Cusomize searching
  • baseline you might want to start searching from, custom to your personal data
• Mail filtering
• Intercept input/output of command
  • Wrap RSS item with some processing
• Spreadsheet like computations: counting
• Filtering input into the app
• import/export time processing
  • feeds/email/flickr tags
  • keyboard entry: shortcuts for marking up data
• trigger a script from outside the app and pass data into the script
  • webserver listening on a port, punch data into chandler
  • quicksilver type in text --> applescript --> put data into omnioutliner (do something similar for chandler)
• integration with other apps
  • clipboard/dnd --> process info coming into the app, or before it leaves the app
• glue different apps together
  • pass data in, execute command, get results back
  • notification comments on spam, some processing before notifications
• glue parts of chandler together
  • bidirectional refs between data types
• export --> format data as it leaves chandler (different ways for data to leave chandler)
  • export as vcard/etc.
  • chandler as webserver
  • interception point