Design for application availability

Questions & Suggestions
#1

I want my email app to be only available between say 9-9:30 am and again between say 5-5:30 pm.

Any other time email app is launched KM will immediately quit it. Duh!

This is designed to make it a pain to check emails outside these time slots.

Any suggestions as to how to create such a macro?

#2

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#3

Wow that was easy! Did not think down that route so thank you.

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#4

:slight_smile:

#5

Hi @michael_gilbert, I had created the solution of @hello, but then I realized that I could call my KM palettes but they did not trigger any actions while the mail time macro was running.

So I made an AppleScript and created it as an app. Additionally I can choose in a popup how long the mail app should run. Of course it works with any other app, too.

In this tutorial (unfortunately in German) from minute 02:50 you can see my workflow.

tell application "Mail"
	launch
	activate
	tell application "System Events" to tell process "Mail"
		keystroke "1" using {command down}
		delay 3
		tell application "System Events"
			activate
			set theTime to text returned of (display dialog "How long should the mail app remain activated?" with title "Apple Mail" default answer "" buttons {"Cancel", "Start"} default button 2)
			delay theTime * 60
			tell application "Mail" to quit
		end tell
	end tell
end tell
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#6

Nice intention :wink:

#7

Thanks for that. Watched and will re-watch! :smiley: