nikivi

I really dislike how the Placeholder title appears when you call workflows via external trigger. Often it appears briefly only to disappear when actual results come in. This is quite annoying so what I do now is add a JSON Config object with this content:

{
  "alfredworkflow" : {
    "arg" : "{query}",
    "config" : {
      "title" : "",
      "runningsubtext" : "",
      "subtext" : ""
    },
    "variables" : {
    }
  }
}

To make sure the placeholder doesn't appear and I get a clean prompt on my workflows that I call with external trigger.

I really wish there was a global setting in Alfred that would apply above filter on external triggers so I didn't have to add and readd it on all workflows I use (all updates to other people's workflows will remove my custom objects). 

I really do enjoy having clean prompts and the icon is enough indication for me to know what the workflow does like below for searching PDFs:

I hope such option can be added to Alfred. 🧡

Even nicer although not necessary would be if you could create both folders and files if multiple separator paths are provided. Like so:

Where test is a directory and myfile.csv is the file.

If you are in file explorer and are typing a name that has no matches. It would be great if you could press return or cmd+return to create a new file with default text editor.

So if inside here:

I do:

And press return. Alfred would create that file at that path and open it in my editor (VSCode for me) so I can fill it with content.

I know I can create a file action on a folder to create a file but the above scenario would be more useful to me in terms of UX.

Hope this can be added.

It would be nice if I could press right arrow here:

To see file contents of the workflow like:

Of course it would have to only work on workflows and not triggers/lists and other results that ? search provides.

Would be super useful.

It would also be really awesome if one could add modifiers to the search as I would like to with a modifier press also export the workflow to my Desktop for sharing. Like I do with this workflow.

Perhaps what would be easier is exposing this search to users so users can build workflows on top of the results provided by ?. Like adding fuzzy search too and the like?

? keyword lets you effectively search Alfred. However it does strict search so you are forced to start search query with how the actual workflow name starts. No fuzzy searching is supported.

It would be awesome if ability to fuzzy search through results was added.

Thank you.

Just tested it out @Andrew, works incredibly well. Thanks.

On 6/24/2019 at 12:19 PM, Andrew said:

I'll add this in for the next release

Does the release also include ability to activate fields in Contacts via modifier key presses?

So in here:

I could add cmd/opt/.. modifiers that on result instead of opening Contact in Alfred, would instantly open URL from `twitter` or `github` in default browser.

Would be handy too.

@Andrew Is there any chance to add this in Alfred 4? Or it can be added only in next major version of 5?

I love the new `?` keyword search added with Alfred 4. If I want to bind it to a hotkey or external trigger however like so:

I have to pass in `?` to Alfred. But the result looks ugly with the question mark and the Alfred Preferences:

I would really love if I could just have Alfred Preferences Search as an object which I can call and thus lose the `?` in the Alfred prompt.

Thank you.

Since Alfred already logs number of times Alfred has been called. If it doesn't hurt performance or anything, it would be nice if it also logged what workflows were called during the use and present that information.

Aside from pretty stats, it could show which workflows in user's library are not used so one can clean things up.

4 hours ago, Andrew said:

Could you let me know?

Pretty sweet. It works, thanks.

47 minutes ago, Andrew said:

can I confirm that this is the case?

It is. 

Should I open a feature request for clean empty external prompt?

Or perhaps I am doing it wrong?

4 hours ago, deanishe said:

Safari is tuned for battery life, not maximum performance like Chrome, so yes, it is often slower.

I find Safari more performant than chrome in my experience. Tabs open faster, content renders faster even sometimes. 

I only chrome canary for webdev so might be wrong. In any way I can’t imagine using chrome as main browser if you also use ios devices. Chrome on ios is bad.  

Actually I take that back. Shouldn't this not be there:

I think that was the point of the change. Now it activates but that empty thing shouldn't be there. Only Alfred input prompt.

Amazing. Works wonderfully. 

Source.

I think it's a big deal and would probably mean saying no to running any python/ruby based workflows (of which there's a few) unless they bundle a runtime with them or point to assumed python installation (in path) I guess. 

I don't much use these languages and write all my workflows in Go (with AwGo) to get around this problem.

In Alfred 4 there is `Only Show Enabled` setting but no `Only Show Disabled` which to me is very useful too as I want to instantly see all the disabled workflows I have in my library. I have over 100 workflows and disable ones I am not using now but still want to keep.

Would appreciate this option being added.

I have a workflow that has a keyword trigger that I activate with external trigger.

Activating it from keyword works (pressing enter):

Activating it from external trigger (my preferred way) doesn't work:

Pressing return does nothing. No logs added in Debugger too. This workflow worked perfectly in Alfred 3 but now fails in Alfred 4.

I really rely on this working as its one of my most used workflows.

Thank you.

And one more on the topic of accessibility. There is no hotkey for focusing on Filter search bar in Workflows tab.

There is a great new search bar accessed with cmd + f but filter search is still useful but is only reachable with a mouse or another hacky KM macro.

Super thrilled to download and start using Alfred 4.

One of the things I thought would be added in it is hotkey support to jump between General/Features/.. tabs with something like cmd + 1/2/3/.. hotkeys.

I currently use these macros to do this:

It works nice but I wonder why this isn't something builtin into Alfred Preferences. Only downside I can see is when you want to create a hotkey and want to use cmd + 1/2/.. but in that case Alfred can take priority and not have cmd + 1/2/3/.. switch between tabs. 

I am trying to install this workflow by first loading it to ~/Downloads and then opening it. For some reason for this specific workflow, nothing gets loaded to Alfred.
 

I mentioned it to developer and it seems I am alone in having this problem. Is there any way to get any logs or information of why it fails?

Thanks.

7 hours ago, vitor said:

activates Alfred’s Advanced Calculato

I thought I knew Alfred. This is cool 😎  

16 minutes ago, deanishe said:

Do you also cut your bread with your favourite spoon

I don’t bread as much as I type. You use Vim too I know, I am sure you wouldn’t be able to stand a day developing in Xcode.  

That is considering I already have global vim emulation to a certain level across all apps I use. I just find myself enjoying writing and editing code in vim too much. Neovim embedded in Xcode or a proper Swift LSP is something I wish happens in my lifetime. 

No but I don’t plan to leave the comfort of my editor in order to make it. I have too much invested in optimizing VSCode/Vim and I can’t imagine writing anything without vim at this point. 

For mobile I would definitely use React Native but for desktop I’ll wait for Swift LSP to mature or some other framework like Revery.