An outstanding app & fantastic developer.

I have used Dropzone for quite a while, and was pleasantly suprised when version 3 was released. It is quicker and more powerful. But I’m not here to discuss features of the app, just realize that it will greatly increase your workflow. And if you know Ruby, it will be even more beneficial (because you can develop your own actions). I do not know Ruby, but was really interested in an action that could send attachments (ie. images of my son) to a specific phone number (ie. my son’s grandparents) via iMessage. I had a working applesript, but after diving through the various other actions, I was lost on how I could piece one together to suit my needs without learning Ruby. I emailed the developer and he quickly created an action that would do just that “Send iMessage With Attachment to Phone Number”. The code is a little more extensive than I originally thought, but perhaps it is easily coded by someone knowledgable in Ruby. I am not advertising that everyone should email the developer with requests to write DZ3 actions, as I’m sure he doesn’t have the time to fill the requests. However, if the idea could be of use to a lot of people, it definitely wouldnt hurt. The power of this software is that each action is editable and essentially open source. Therefore, everyone can not only come up with neat actions themselves, but also learn how to create them by copying bits of code from other actions. The next action I am trying to code is an action for Bittorent Sync that will give you a ‘secret’ key when you drop a folder on the action.

Only recommendation I have is a developer collaboration forum, so people can bounce ideas off each other. I think this would really initiate many people designing actions, which would even further increase the value of this fantastic app.

WildernessDoc about Dropzone 3