Podcast Noter AppleScript

podcast-noter.scpt

use AppleScript version "2.4" -- Yosemite (10.10) or later
use scripting additions

# Sample Keyboard Maestro macros at 
# <https://sixcolors.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Podcast-Noter-Macros.kmmacros.zip>

on run argv
	try
		set theNote to (item 1 of argv)
	on error
		set theNote to ""
	end try
	
	set theSavePath to "/Users/jsnell/Desktop/" -- put your own path here
	
	set theDatematch to (do shell script "date '+%Y%m%d'")
	
	set theLatestMatch to date "Monday, January 1, 2001 at 12:00:00 AM"
	
	try
		tell application "Finder"
			set theMatches to (every file of (POSIX file theSavePath as alias) whose name contains theDatematch)
			set theWinner to item 1 of theMatches
			repeat with i from 1 to (count of items in theMatches)
				set theMatched to creation date of item i of theMatches
				if theMatched > theLatestMatch then
					set theLatestMatch to theMatched
					set theWinner to item i of theMatches
				end if
			end repeat
			
			set theStartTime to (creation date of theWinner)
			
		end tell
	on error
		display notification "No session found."
		return
		
	end try
	
	set theOffset to ((current date) - theStartTime)
	
	set theTimeStamp to secondstoHMS from theOffset
	
	if (theNote as text) = "" then
		set theStamper to theTimeStamp
	else
		set theStamper to (theTimeStamp & " - " & (theNote as text))
	end if
	
	set theSafeDatematch to (do shell script "date -j -f '%A, %B %e, %Y at %I:%M:%S %p' '" & theStartTime & "' '+%b %d %H%M'")
	
	do shell script ("echo " & quoted form of theStamper & " >> " & quoted form of (theSavePath & "Notes - " & theSafeDatematch & ".txt"))
	
end run

on secondstoHMS from theSeconds
	tell theSeconds to return my pad(it div hours) & ":" & my pad(it mod hours div minutes) & ":" & my pad(it mod minutes)
end secondstoHMS

on pad(v)
	return text -2 thru -1 of (v + 100 as text)
end pad

24-hour time strikes again! Your script is for 12-hour clocks, not 24. Once I switched my system to 12-hour time, it works just fine from Terminal and Stream Deck. (Still gives the same error in Script Editor thought!)