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Mac Power Users

322: Cleaning Up with Hazel

Mac Power Users

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How To, Tech, Sparks, David, Set Up, Mac, Workflow, Ios, User, Help, Power, Stephen Hackett, Technology

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2016

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

David and Katie dive deep on Mac automation assistant Hazel, discuss how to get started and ideas for file and document based automation and give ideas of how they're using the program. David also announces a new MacSparky Video Field Guide. Thanks to MPU listener Jigar Talati for help with the shownotes this week!

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0:00.0

Mac Power Users episode 322.

0:03.2

Clean It Up with Hazel. Welcome back to another episode of the Mac Power Users

0:17.7

podcast. I'm Katie Floyd alongside my

0:19.8

pal David Sparks. Hello Katie Floyd how are you today? I'm great how are you.

0:24.7

Excellent excellent we're having some some June gloom here a little early in California.

0:29.8

Oh okay well we need we need the rain here so I'm I'm happy for you to send it our way.

0:35.0

Don't get me started on water. Just don't get me started.

0:39.0

So we are revisiting one of our favorite topics this week on Mac Power users and when I went back in the show

0:45.1

archives although we frequently reference this Hazel we have not actually had a show

0:50.6

on Hazel since episode 25 so almost 300 episodes ago.

0:55.0

We're do, we're do now.

0:58.0

And we have some reasons to want to talk about Hazel.

1:00.0

The first is that they just released Hazel version 4.0, which is a new update.

1:04.6

It's got some really great new features we want to cover.

1:07.1

And the second reason is that some guy just released this insanely long

1:14.4

long video anthology on Hazel. I think it's longer than the original Star Wars movie.

1:15.6

It is longer than the original Star Wars movie. And you know what funny is I thought about that as well. So I'm glad that you're on the same page with me.

1:23.4

So yeah, I did a Max Sparky Field Guide on Hazel. It's a Hazel video Field Guy.

1:28.0

It's all video. It's not a book. It's a video. And what I did when I started it, as I said, let me make a list of all the cool things you can do with Hazel and I want to walk through and show somebody

1:37.0

pretending you've never seen Hazel before and you know from the beginning to the ending it gets quite quite advanced, but you get there.

1:43.9

And I'll just see how long it takes.

1:45.5

And it ends up, it takes two and a half hours to get through all of those workflows.

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