jaywang

Really love this theme and would love to download the dark&dark mode variant, but the links are broken stating that these files exceeded viewing limits

Hi,

I use alfred constantly for quick calculations, and it'd be really useful if it remembers all the queries (not just 20 as currently allowed) somewhere so I can go back to them.

I know I should probably turn to soulver for that, but alfred just feels so second-nature with the cmd+space combination. It doesn't have to be on by default (because of privacy concerns etc.), but I feel it may be an option many would turn on.

Cheers,

Jay

Right now when I try to launch an app, a trashed app also shows up as a match. Can I make it not happen?

I haven't seem to find a way to exclude trash and trash only. All I have found is an option to include/exclude Home Folder.

Is this what you want?

Yes, I know this. But this is not what I mean. 

 

The functionality I was talking about is this: when your current input method is English, but you want to search for some directories or files named in Chinese. In Spotlight you just need to type the Pinyin in English, and the results will show up. The key here is that you don't need to switch to Chinese input method first, then type the Pinyin, then choose the right candidate characters. So the pinyin search reduce 3 steps to 1 step, and it's more productive.

 

As for the example I provided above,  I type wode with English input method in Spotlight, the file "我的文档" didn't show up, I believe it's a bug in Spotlight's implementation. In other situations it's OK. So I choose another example: If I want to search for files named "集客", but I am currently in English input method(we are not always in Chinese input method, sometimes we need to input English, for example we need to type urls when we browse websites), I open Spotlight, and just type jike with English input method, and the results will show up. Look the screenshot below:

 

This is the behavior on my Mac too.  I believe you need to add China to you language(doesn't have to be the first or display language) and maybe set your region to China, so that the system would index filename's pinyin too.

I know for sure that if your language setting is English, Contacts and iTunes won't index pinyin of anything, and from the screenshot above spotlight seems to work the same way.

This feature is crucial for Chinese user, typing Chinese instead of just pinyin is woefully slow for quick search. For now I don't use Alfred for searching because of this, and make my own workflow ( where I translate Chinese app names to pinyin "keyword") so that I can even comfortably launch apps.