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    in Themes

    Posted

    Hi @woowoo - Welcome to the forum. As custom theming is a Powerpack-specific feature, please fill in your Powerpack email address in your forum profile. This is only visible to admins and allows us to confirm your registered email address.

     

    Cheers,
    Vero

    Keep clipboard history forever

    in Alfred Feature Suggestions

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    On 27/11/2017 at 1:40 AM, deanishe said:

    No concrete command incantation suggests itself as worthy of being permanently memorialised in a snippet, and trying to create a generalised snippet around that command may require a fairly substantial investment of time and cognitive effort.


    @deanishe Just coming back to this to add something that might be beneficial to @Cody and others reading the thread too...

     

    If there's something in your clipboard you want to keep, press Cmd + S to save it as a snippet, give it a name and hit save; There's no need to set a trigger for *every* snippet you create.

     

    I've got a collection of non-expanding snippets just called "links and stuff" that are various links to posts, snips of code I need every so often, but have no intention of remembering a snippet trigger for.

     

    As of 3.6 (currently in pre-release), it's possible to switch the matching to include snippet content, so you'll need to set a name, but it doesn't need to be mind-blowingly complicated. Once you're in the Clipboard Viewer, type part of the snippet text and it'll appear in your results.

     

    Screen Shot 2018-01-31 at 16.14.36.png

     

    With this option, there's less friction in storing a snippet (which also has the benefit of it being synced/backed up if syncing is enabled) without the risk of storing an infinitely ballooning clipboard history database.

     

    Cheers,
    Vero

    Clipboard - paste as plain text

    in Alfred Feature Suggestions

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    @ACGarland Welcome to the forum. :) 

     

    The Clipboard History is stored as plain text by default, so you can pop up your Clipboard Viewer (Cmd + Alt + C by default) and select the item you want to paste.

     

    Alternatively, if you know that you specifically want to paste the 2nd or 3rd item, you can use dynamic placeholders in the workflow mentioned in the earlier post:

    https://www.alfredapp.com/help/features/clipboard/dynamic-placeholders/#clipboard

     

    If I've misunderstood what you're looking for, could you give an example of what you have in mind?

     

    Cheers,
    Vero

    Disabling double-tap on command for copy to clipboard?

    in Discussion & Help

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    @nandorocker Welcome to the forum. Alfred never directly hijacks the clipboard in such a way, but this could be achieved with the Powerpack.

     

    Could you please fill in your Powerpack email address in your forum profile? This is only visible to admins (Andrew and I) and allows us to confirm your registered status. I've temporarily locked this thread, but once you've confirmed your details, we'll be happy to help you further :) 

     

    Cheers,
    Vero

    Growl Native support gone in Alfred 3

    in Discussion & Help

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    Andrew,

     

    I have a new system and have run Growlnotify on Sierra and High Sierra in the past.  The new system is a work computer and I am back on Sierra.  Growlnotify fails with the following error and I cannot figure out why.  Xcode is installed and so is the growl package for 2.0 same as my other working system that has High Sierra.  Any ideas??

     

    2018-01-25 08:36:20.224 growlnotify[3224:28087] Failed to register with (null)

     

    @mikedvzo In reply to your message on Andrew's forum profile, given that this is a GrowlNotify error, and we don't have any direct relationship with Growl, it may be worth seeing whether Growl still provides support and post on their forum/support channel.

     

    Cheers,
    Vero

    Open Firefox Window with several sites opened

    in Workflow Help & Questions

    Posted

    @JvdL As much as possible, avoid simulating keystrokes as this isn't a reliable way to perform actions.

     

    Wherever possible, your best bet is to use Alfred's built-in objects to do the majority of what you want, and use AppleScript or another appropriate solution where scripting is required and it can't be done using objects. Simulating keystrokes should be a last resort, as it can be really quirky.

    Open Firefox Window with several sites opened

    in Workflow Help & Questions

    Posted

    Hi @JvdL and welcome to the forum :)

     

    There's a good built-in workflow you can use as example to teach you how to do what you describe; Open Alfred's preferences to the Workflows tab, and click the [+] button at the bottom of the sidebar. In Examples, choose "Should I watch this movie?"

     

    This workflow shows you how to use a keyword to launch three websites (YouTube, IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes).

     

    movie-workflow-example.png

     

    Now you can create your Blank Workflow to create your own in a similar way; Instead of a keyword, you'll start your workflow with a hotkey, and connect it to two "Open URL" objects. Set the URL for each site you listed above, and choose Firefox as the browser for each one.

     

    Let me know if you need any further help :)

     

    Cheers,
    Vero

    Alfred does not find anything you haven't searched with Spotlight first

    in Discussion & Help

    Posted

    @s95hc8 Take a look at the troubleshooting steps on the Indexing page here:

    https://www.alfredapp.com/help/troubleshooting/indexing/

     

    If results aren't being returned from file searches, there's likely some corruption to your Mac's metadata index (even if Spotlight appears to return some results). Follow the steps to rebuild your Mac's index, and let it run until it's done, which can take up to an hour.

     

    [Edited to add: I notice that in a previous thread, you stated that you were using Onyx on a regular basis to manage your metadata index, so I would ensure that Onyx is not being run or used for a while, to ensure that this isn't having an unexpected impact on your index.]

     

    Once it's completed, type "reload" into Alfred to clear the application cache (which only affects apps, not general files, as the latter are not cached) and let us know how it goes.

     

    Cheers,
    Vero

    Star items in the clipboard

    in Alfred Feature Suggestions

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    @Gautam Thanks for filling your details in :)

     

    The Clipboard History itself is considered to be temporary, local data, and there's no way to "star" a clipboard item as such. However, if you choose a Clipboard text item you want to keep and press Cmd + S, you'll be able to save it as a snippet. Not only will the snippet then be saved as part of your preferences, it'll also be synced between your Macs.

     

    You can keep a collection of snippets that's solely for the kind of "long term clipboard" items you have in mind. Pop up the Clipboard Viewer and type a few characters from that item to filter to it, rather than setting text expansion keywords for them.

     

    Cheers,
    Vero

    dictionary define action doesn't focus to dictionary.app

    in Discussion & Help

    Posted

    @georgexsh This is a macOS shortcoming, which you would experience as well if you were to type "dict://hello" into Safari; MacOS doesn't change to the appropriate Space in that situation either.

     

    Resolving this is not as simple as Alfred launching the command to define the word, followed by bringing Dictionary to come into focus, as some users may be using the "dict://" URL scheme to launch a different dictionary application from the default macOS one. In that case, launching the word definition (in their chosen app) then bringing Dictionary into focus would create unwanted, confusing behaviour.

     

    Having said that, you can easily replace the "define" keyword with a small workflow that opens the "dict://{query}" in your default Dictionary, followed by an object launching the Dictionary app (which should bring you to the right Space if it's already launched). You can then disable the default "define" keyword in Features > Dictionary. 

     

    I'm moving this to Discussion & Help, so let us know if you need any help creating the workflow described above :)

     

    Cheers,
    Vero

    Notes

    in Share your Workflows

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    @pontus While adding Notes as a built-in searchable feature has been on the cards for a long time, Apple constantly change the Notes data (e.g. used to be individual files, now is a single file in High Sierra) and its location. This makes it difficult for us to provide a reliable, stable feature to users on all OS versions when Apple keeps moving the goalposts.

     

    As such, it'll most likely always remain something that's searched via workflows, unless Apple starts to offer a public API we can rely on.

     

    Cheers,
    Vero

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