alfred-mouseless-messenger VS hammerspoon

If you use Alfred, consider my workflow, Mouseless Messenger.

My most popular workflow is Mouseless Messenger, and it's based entirely in Alfred — written in JXA.

I use JXA to write Alfred workflows like Mouseless Messenger. My desktop is an Intel Mac Pro and is where I do most of my development for pretty much everything.

I've updated Mouseless Messenger to v2.0.1.

Feel free to follow me on Twitter or star the repository to get updates for when that releases.

I write workflows for it using JXA, and the amount of time it's saved me more time than I can even begin to consider. For example, Mouseless Messenger lets me respond to iMessage/SMS without ever leaving the current app or touching the mouse.

If you're using iCloud Messages, I'm told it may not work correctly. See some of the closed issues on https://github.com/stephancasas/alfred-mouseless-messenger/issues to see what others have done.

Is it shameful to say my own? I wrote Mouseless Messenger so I could read and reply to iMessage/SMS messages from Alfred. It saves me so much clicking and context switching.

Another option for hacking something like this together could be HammerSpoon. I’ve spent some time with it, but haven’t tried integrating with Apple Notes, I mostly did stuff at the file system level to keep it easy.

https://www.hammerspoon.org/

For basic window tiling, I stumbled across Hammerspoon and the MiroWindowsManager spoon.

https://github.com/miromannino/miro-windows-manager

https://www.hammerspoon.org/

I use hammerspoon a lot and it seemed like scheduling SelfControl could be done using it so I created Hammer Control. Check it out!

Hammerspoon - Price: Free Desktop automation tool for macOS that allows you to write Lua scripts to control your Mac.

Assuming no one has a cut-and-dried solution that just works, would something like this be possible with say, AppleScript or another scripting tool like Hammerspoon? I've not used either of these tools before, but would be open to seeking out a scripting solution on my own if it's viable. Or am I going to run into insurmountable security restrictions?

Spark (not the email app). There are others like Hotkey and Hammerspoon.

I have tried different tools for this including Rectangle, but I've finally settled with hammerspoon. It solves the problem of window-management but you can also use it to create custom keyboard shortcuts and much more.