Stephen_C

I'm so pleased—and relieved—to know that you managed to sort the problem. Sorry that it took so long for me to think of the solution.

Stephen

Welcome to the forum.

Have you tried going to Alfred Preferences → Features → Clipboard History, clicking on the Advanced tab and adding Proton Pass to the list of ignored apps? (I'm assuming there is an app as well as a mere browser extension. If so it may be worth trying that.)

Stephen

Alfred does not use AI unless and until you download and install a workflow designed to use AI (for example, the chatGPT workflow). When I refer to "AI” I mean the external companies to which you refer,. Of course, Alfred has his own intelligence. 😀

Stephen

@dit7c1 I'm running more or less the same system as you and CleanShot X does not show in the System Settings Automation list so you don't need to worry about that.

At this stage the only thing I can suggest is to try deleting and re-installing CleanShot X. However, don't do that unless you have a record of your licence key because you'll need that when re-installing.

If you are able to do that run the workflow and you should see CleanShot X asking if you wish to allow Alfred to action it (I don't recall the exact message but there definitely should be some request from the system).

Aside from that I'm afraid I've rather run out of ideas: sorry.

Stephen

OK - thanks for that test. For the moment I have no idea what causes your problem (sorry!)…but don't give up, we shall sort it somehow!

What I find strange is that this is a very popular and frequently downloaded workflow and nobody has reported a similar problem so there must be something odd about your particular setup. From your debug report the script appears to be doing exactly what it should be doing.

When you first ran the workflow did you receive a system prompt asking you to confirm that Alfred should be allowed to action CleanShot X? If do, did you confirm at that stage? (However, i don't think that is problem because you have said some CleanShot X actions work but others do not—and I can’t think of any logical reason for that.)

Stephen

@dit7c1 what happens when you simply use CleanShot X (i.e., without running it through the Alfred workflow)? Do you get access to all the utilities and do they work?

Stephen

8 hours ago, dit7c1 said:

Hi!

I have updated Alfred to the latest version (Alfred 5.5 Build 2257, Monday 18th March 2024)
I downloaded your extension from github v1.4, but it doesn't work for me ((

I run Alfred - I enter csx - and the actions don't work
Am I doing something wrong, or?

Thanks

Apologies for the delay responding: I'm out of the/my country until the end of the week. Please follow the exact instructions in the post preceding this one and someone will tell you why it's not working for you.

Stephen

Type "Feedback” in Alfred and run the Feedback Assistant.app.

Stephen

42 minutes ago, PBear said:

And I finally found one, just now: perplexity.ai

If you're using that you may find this post helpful (although I appreciate you may already have achieved what you need).

Stephen

If I've understood the request correctly, just choose the one you want a couple of times and it will rise to the top of the list. In other words, Alfred recognises the most frequently used utilities.

Edit: See Understanding Result Ordering for an explanation.

Stephen

Thanks so much for the kind comment: it's much appreciated.

Stephen

Thank you.

I have two thoughts:

• There are different flavours of markdown and not all (by any means) support that code to place images side by side (and I don't know what flavour of markdown Alfred uses).
• The size of your images may be too large to permit displaying them side by side.

Obviously you can test by using suitable small images—and, of course, you can try enlarging the Text View window by using ⌘0 (that's cmd + zero).

Stephen

As my CleanShot X workflow is now on the Alfred Gallery I thought it better to create a new thread here for it.

Version 1.4 has been re-written as a script filter to take advantage of Alfred 5.5 caching. Apart from minor updates to the ReadMe there are no other material changes so if you are using a version of Alfred earlier than 5.5 please stay on version 1.3 of the workflow.

Stephen

The workflow has been updated to version 2.5. It has been re-written as a script filter to take advantage of Alfred 5.5 caching. Alfred now also learns from used items to bring them to the top of the list. The ReadMe is updated, Transfer & Reset was removed as it was not accessible. I have added access to the Software Update panel and Keyboard Shortcuts.

Do note that version 2.5 requires Alfred 5.5 and later. If you are on an earlier version of Alfred please use version 2.0 of the workflow.

As the workflow is on the Alfred Gallery you should be able to update from there within a few days.

Stephen
 

9 minutes ago, jasonw said:

 

Is it expected / required for similar workflows to select this when stage manager is on?

I don't believe it has anything at all to do with stage manager (although I have to confess that I never use it). You simply need to ensure that Alfred keeps open the relevant windows when running the workflow. See this Alfred help page for some explanation about alternative actions and keeping open the Alfred window (although, as you've seen, it's not simply to prevent "the Alfred window from flickering”).

Stephen

Welcome to the forum.

I suggest you run your workflow and post the complete output from the debugger (not just a small section of it)—because that will make it much easier to analyse exactly what is happening.

There is no inherent problem with Alfred 5.5 beta accepting multiple sequential inputs from keyword prompts. At least one of my workflows does that it works perfectly using Alfred 5.5 beta (1, 2 and RC).

It may also be helpful to confirm what version of macOS you are using.

Stephen

4 minutes ago, Andrew said:

If you open the Script Filter Object Config, then select Save, you should see a message in the debugger that the cache has been flushed.

Andrew, of course it's working exactly as intended. 😀

Stephen

Yes, it's a little tricky until you become aware of it.

Stephen

Welcome to the forum.

You mean like Alfred Preferences → Appearance, Options (at the bottom of the second column) and then Show Alfred on…? 😃

Stephen

This Alfred help page states:

Quote

Caches are marked as stale - and thus purged, causing the script to rerun when called - by:

• Editing the Script Filter object.
• Clicking Flush in the debugger.
• Reloading the workflow.

…

 

The second certainly works for me but I'm not sure that the first does. When I edit a script filter that includes caching I still need to click Flush in the debugger in order to see the changes. It may be a misunderstanding on my part as to what constitutes "Editing”—but I've certainly made additions to or deletions from the script filter when I'm not seeing the changes, when running the filter, without clicking Flush.

Edit: I wonder whether it's because the script I'm editing is in the workflow folder. 🤔

Stephen

Perfect: thanks Vitor. I tried just about every variation I could imagine but not, of course, that one.

Stephen

I have a script filter with a tediously long list of items which displays in Alfred in a /bin/zsh --no-rcs window like this:

cat <<EOF
{
  "items": [
    {
      blah blah blah
	},
    ……
    {
      blah blah blah
    }
  ]
}
EOF

I need to cache that list using the new Alfred 5.5 utility but much fruitless experimentation has yet to show me how and where to do it.

In essence, where and how do you use that cache utility in this context?

Stephen (yet again revealing ignorance of a language to which he is allergic)

6 minutes ago, Adam Kiss said:

clearly something is wrong

A reboot sometimes solves problems like that.

Stephen

As I understand it, the Tab keys works to autocomplete the names of files and applications Alfred's window: see Alfred Cheatsheet.

Stephen