I know I’m extremely late to the party, but I am finally using FastScripts.

Until now, most of the scripts I use are either shell scripts that I activate from inside Terminal, or scripts that I use inside an application that supports them, like BBEdit or BibDesk.

I had tried before to find a way to run scripts from arbitrary applications, but I was never happy with what I found.

Then I found FastScripts, which of course has been around forever. It does everything I want it to. My favorite part is the ability to create application specific scripts and keyboard shortcuts, which are only shown or run when a certain application is running. That way the menu (and more importantly, the keyboard shortcut space) isn’t cluttered with irrelevant scripts.

While I’m on the subject of clutter, I recommend removing system scripts from the FastScripts menu.

Here are some scripts I collected to get my FastScripts library started.

Global

• Cancel all print jobs (Red Sweater)
• Color Picker (Ben Alman wayback link)
• Paste to BBEdit

Finder

• Duplicate window (Daniel T)
• Select files by glob (inspired by Red Sweater’s “select by regular expression”)
• Open Terminal in this directory (Red Sweater)
• Copy filename
• Calculate MD5 (inspired by RexRay)

Safari

• Read Later (Red Sweater). This uses AppleScript to run the JavaScript from the Instapaper bookmarklet.
• Add to Pinboard (same idea as above)
• Next Page (Red Sweater)
• View source in BBEdit (inspired by Ben Alman)
• Top level URL (Ben Alman wayback link)

Terminal

• Copy last output (Dr. Drang)
• Copy last input