Auto-launch Bunches on startup
You can launch Bunches automatically whenever the app starts. This can be useful if you have Bunch set as a Login Item and you have a set of apps you want to launch every time you log in. By using Bunch to do this rather than adding them to the Login Items as well, you can easily quit apps in groups, as well as access Bunch commands and scripts.
With .startup Scripts
There are two ways to launch a Bunch on startup. The first way is with a dedicated “startup script.”
To launch Bunches on startup, create a file in your Bunch directory with the extension “.startup”. Any filename will work, and all files ending in “.startup” will be processed.
The file should contain a list of Bunches to launch, one Bunch per line. The “.bunch” extension is not required. Note that these startup files can only contain names of Bunches to launch, not regular Bunch lines of any kind.
If you have Single Bunch mode enabled, only the last item processed will be launched. Otherwise all lines of all “.startup” files will launch, not that you’d ever need more than one…
With Frontmatter
You can also add a startup: true key to the frontmatter of any Bunch to have it open when Bunch launches. All Bunches with startup: true will be opened after any .startup files have been processed.
---
title: My Startup Bunch
startup: true
---
MailMate
Messages
Interactively
If startup: is set to ask, a prompt will be displayed on launch. Cancelling that prompt will skip opening the Bunch.
Selectively for Synced Macs
If you sync your Bunches to multiple Macs, you may want to specify which Mac(s) run the Bunch as a startup script. To do this, open Preferences and press the “Copy UUID” button. Paste the result as the value of the startup: key and the startup will only be triggered on the Mac that matches this value. Multiple UUIDs can be combined with commas.
You can also use startup unless: instead of startup:. This has the inverse effects for excluding specific Macs by UUID.
Batch Launching
You can use folder.frontmatter to apply startup: true to all of the Bunches contained in a subfolder. This makes adding and removing Bunches from startup as easy as moving them in and out of a folder. Just create a subfolder and add a file called folder.frontmatter to it. Include the startup: true key in that file and it will be applied to all of the Bunches it contains.
Conflicts
Be careful when auto-launching Bunches that quit other Bunches, as this can lead to unexpected behavior. Bunches are launched asynchronously, so you can’t be sure what order the events will happen in. Avoid having
!Name.bunchlines in any Bunches launched by a startup script.