For example, choosing “Files & Folders” will let you see all of the actions that apply to moving stuff and changing items within the Finder. Now if you look at the panes on the left side of the Automator window, you’ll note that you can click on any of the categories to see what actions are available. I usually just create an empty new folder on my Desktop to work with and then select it from this dialog box. Then you’ll have to choose which folder you’d like to be your “combining PDFs” one. Folder actions are basically scripts that you can associate with a folder, so anything you put in that folder has whatever instructions you specify performed on it. When the program opens, it’ll ask you what type of document you’d like to create. Its icon always reminds me of Marvin the Paranoid Android. So first things first-open Automator from your Applications folder. It’s certainly easier than jumping through Preview’s hoops for doing the same thing, let me tell you. To that end, we’re going to cover how to create a folder that combines PDFs into one file when you drop them into it. With it, you can, well, automate the tasks you perform frequently and speed up your workflow. Automator is one of the unsung heroes of Mac OS X.
