Prompted by Aaron Parecki’s efforts, I set out to conjure up a system to set my Slack status when I’m in a Zoom meeting.
Like this:
The secret sauces turned out to be:
- Slack status updater, a well-documented shell script that allows setting Slack status.
- Hammerspoon, a Lua-based Mac automation tool that the Slack status updater includes a helper for.
After configuring everything up, every time I start a Zoom meeting my Slack status gets updated to “In a zoom meeting,” and when the meeting ends it gets removed.
Automation for the win!
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