Using Regex in BBEdit and Keyboard Maestro to clean up text
David Allen
Chapters
00:00 - Intro 00:26 - Let's get started 00:37 - Select the text in Goodreads 00:47 - Open BBEdit 01:03 - Raw Data to work with 01:16 - Find Patterns in the text with Regex 01:36 - Find and Replace in BBEdit 02:03 - Finding the numbers with Regex 02:20 - Subscribe to Good and Geeky 02:36 - Regex to select the next line of text 02:55 - Multiple lines of text selection 03:24 - Get Regex Help in BBEdit 03:32 - History of searches and generic tools 03:55 - Run replace all 04:13 - Next pattern to look for 04:51 - Back Splash or back slash ? 05:27 - Edge case with the pattern 05:54 - Remove blank lines 06:15 - Replace all 06:31 - Blank line removal does't work in BBEdit 06:47 - Move the text to Drafts App 07:16 - Now to create the required blank line 07:35 - Thought I was done but there's more 07:58 - Using escape characters 08:38 - Now to use Keyboard Maestro 08:55 - Working out the steps needed 09:14 - Not fully automatic but it could be 09:23 - name the Keyboard Maestro Macro 09:45 - Actually want text inserted first 09:57 - Check in Obsidian what I actually need 10:34 - Duplicate an action in Keyboard Maestro 10:41 - Moving actions in the list 11:09 - Duplicating actions and needed 11:23 - Make a trigger to star the macro running 11:59 - Might need to automate further 12:13 - Flaw in the imprted data 12:43 - Good and Geeky Outro
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