Inbox Zero aims to declutter your mind and remove any anxiety over unread or missed emails lingering in your inbox. Instead of answering each email as soon as it arrives or letting it “rot” in the inbox, a tickler file relegates them until they become a priority and must be reviewed. So, let’s create our own tickler file with the help of Google Apps Scripts.

Recently, I stumbled upon an OCR tool for Linux. However, I didn’t like the idea of needing a GUI app, so I wrote a shell script connecting the right CLI tools instead. This article dissects “grab-text”, a simple POSIX-compatible shell script I wrote for grabbing text from your screen.

As developers, we perform many repetitive tasks, big and small. Many of these tasks might be made easier by using an appropriate tool instead. So let’s build them ourselves!