[Feature Request] Periodic Trigger

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[Feature Request] Periodic Trigger Tue Apr 01, 2025 7:19 am • by theworldorder
Besides all nice triggers that Hazel has, I am missing one very specific: periodic trigger. For example:

In Folder Y ... every X minutes/hours/ ... run ...

As far as I know just Keyboard Maestro has this kind of trigger, but for sure I will not buy Keyboard Maestro just for this. So, I would like to suggest that Hazel add this trigger (Hazel already has time trigger, but I do not want to add one entry for every 5 minutes of the day).

My user case: I have some stuff (text files: '.json, .md, .txt, .csv; etc') that I generate directly on my iCloud (by Ipad, MacOS) and I want to synchronize these folders with my backup. Also, I write a lot of scripts that generate data from these files, so I also want to periodically run them (some of these scripts are not instantly, so I can not add a rule like `Content Modified did change`, because it will trigger one script again without complete the former calling. That is why I need a periodically thing).
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Re: [Feature Request] Periodic Trigger Wed Apr 02, 2025 8:55 am • by Mr_Noodle
Try "Date last matched is not in the last 5 minutes".
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