Sparrow gets AppleScript support, immediately put to use with OmniFocus

Sparrow, the sleek new email client for Mac OS X, was updated yesterday to improve speed, fix some minor bugs and add some limited AppleScript support. While the changes might not be apparent to many Sparrow users, they were apparently an inspiration to Don Southard, who immediately figured out a way to use the AppleScript support with OmniFocus.

Southard's quick work allows him to delegate an OmniFocus task by sending an email with details about the task to another person via Sparrow. The script is saved and placed into the ~/Library/Scripts/Applications/OmniFocus folder, and then a script icon named "Send to Sparrow" is placed on the OmniFocus toolbar at a place of your choosing. To delegate a task, you select a task, then click the icon to send it to Sparrow.

The task's name, context and note fields are included in the email, with Delegated Task as the subject line. As Southard notes, you can easily rearrange the order of the task fields within the script.

It's a simple but effective AppleScript, and demonstrates the power of Apple's venerable scripting language in integration of different apps. As Sparrow evolves from the current 1.0.1 version, it would be nice to see additional AppleScript support built in so that people like Don Southard can do even more fun and useful things with the app.

[via MacStories, image from Tech Blog /via Dirt Don]

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Jude

I actually use Sparrow as my main email client now. I also have Postbox (which is also exceptional, but is a very different type of mail app).

Art Vandelay, your observation of it using a ton of resources is true; but, in my experience, it's only true during the initial setup, when it's doing it's first download of your mail. For my rather huge store of messages, that took well over a full day to finish. However, after it finished, as far as resource utilization goes, it's now a kitten.

Even though I can't see as many messages per page as with a standard email client (or via Gmail's own web-based UI), it hasn't slowed me down one bit, and I actually like it (and it is reasonably said that I'm a high-volume emailer). For me, it's a focus thing, and I like having fewer things to look at--but that's a personal preference.

The one thing I do far faster with it than any other mail client is processing the inbox to whittle it down quickly. Again, Sparrow is where I'm dealing with my mail most of the time now (other than on my phone, which I also use a lot).

I have OmniFocus, but I currently use Things. I'd like to see some nice back-and-forth integration with Things.

February 15 2011 at 6:42 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

brianc

The other direction is more interesting for me. Alas, no filters.

February 15 2011 at 1:47 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

avan4

This is what, your 100th mention of this buggy, inefficient email client. Give it a freaking rest already. Doesn't support IMAP, uses a ton of resources and displays a whopping 8 emails per screen.

February 15 2011 at 11:41 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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TJ Luoma

I count six.

http://www.tuaw.com/tag/sparrow/

February 15 2011 at 3:17 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply