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There are more and more awesome "media workflows" (search videos on youtube, download X,Y,Z on X,Y,Z sites, ...) available. The problem is when you are looking for a specific version of a song, a movie, you need to see its whole title in the results. So an automatic resize of the main window (automatic expansion) would greatly help in this use case. One other use case is very long files/folders names. With "My - Very - Very - Very - Long - File - Name - Example.pdf" you only certainly see "My - Very - Very - Very" An other way to add context in the results, then ease the result selection process, would be to have, in the case of a youtube video, the video displayed on a "Alfred's main window right column". HTH

@Fasand : Please reup (the link is dead). Thank you

@ipaterson Thanks for this useful workflow. Can't wait to see new features piling up!

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@Vitor Just tried. And it is working.

@Vitor I can make youtube-dl work via the command line but not via your awesome workflow. I installed youtube-dl via homebrew. "brew list" show it is installed. I am using the latest version of the workflow and didn't add any modification to the script.

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Hi Jona, Very useful workflow. Would love to be able to center the browser once the browser width is set.

@David Setting the files to system files solved the problem! Many thanks.

I tried to create a "File filter from keyword and open" workflow to search in the configuration folders of Sublime text 2. It looks like I couldn't add the file type I wanted. (ie a .sublimekeymap file = a JSON file). Adding files types or leaving the file type blank led to the same results.

@RodgerWWW thanks for the workflow reco. I am already using this workflow and loving it! We are all waiting for your workflow and will be patient @Tyler : +1 @Racer : +1 on file navigation.

I don't know if this is possible so i am posting it here. Let's say I have three mounted disks and I only want to unmount two of them. ASOT I have to repeat the process "Eject disk X" two times. What I do like to do is type the keyword of the workflow that unmount disks, select all the disk I want to unmount and click enter. Another use case, when using the buffer, I have to type the name of the file I want to add, hit alt+up for any file I want to add. I would like to have to type the name of the file I want to add, select all the files and I hit and special shortcut to add them to the buffer. One could select the files by clicking or a la Finder (ie with a shortcut shift+down).

One nice and useful workflow. Especially the "move to trash" shortcut. Why didn't you just use this workflow: https://github.com/ddjfreedom/recent-downloads-alfred-v2 ? I think I will you both of them

@Tyler Oh my god! Thanks a bunch. Looks like Alfred is an everlasting source of little "things" that makes our life way easier @Wilcard : this gem is well hidden, but so useful!

As I use "Show Alfred with Selected Text" more and more, I think it would be awesome to be able to 1°) select the text via a hotkey 2°) type the keyword of the fallback search I want to use without having to go back to the beginning of the search. Is it possible to make these keywords "reserved words" so Alfred would understand "Everything (any string) before the keyword is the string I have to query?" Would also be interesting for workflows with required argument. Would make Alfred even more awesome!

Hi skotzko, If your question is can I open Evernote with a hotkey the answer is yes. You just have to create a very simple workflow. Otherwise, have a look here : http://tinyurl.com/lpjmnjf Or if you do not know this Evernote workflow http://tinyurl.com/kqxvla4 HTH

Very useful workflow! I suppose it only searches in stackoverflow.com. You can't use this workflow to alson search in superuser.com for example ?

@loris this is a great workflow. When I select/open one feed item in my browser I have to reopen Afred + scroll again to continue to read the items I haven't already red. Could one make Alfred keep the focus, so I would switch to my browser ( via alt-tab) once I have opened all the items I want to read +/or make Alfred remember the position of the last item I opened so I do not have to scroll again? That would make it a perfect workflow :-)

You answer is way more pedagogical than man pages :-) Thanks ctwise!

Hi Florian, I just tried to add a script filter that fetches an Hacker News RSS feed. https://news.ycombinator.com/rss It fetches the feed but when I try to open one entry in Chrome, I get an about:page. I tried do set $display_subtitle to false, no joy.

@David all my apologies if my previous comment seems rude to you. You are absolutely right: the Alfred community, support, staff are doing an amazing job!

What a noob I am :-) Some feedback for your upcoming tutorials section : Alfred is very powerful, but has a steep learning curve. Learning how to use Alfred is not "hard" (not Vim), but there are so many hidden gems/workflows/features/shortcuts that mastering them become more difficult than expected. ie: yesterday I spend about half an hour trying to find how I could make a selection appear in the Alfred Search bar. I thought it was built-in before re-discovering I had to create a workflow.

Hi, When i type "eject" or "ejectall", none of my external hard drives are displayed in the Alfred Search bar. (Both of these two features are turned on in my settings). Apparently, it works with mounted .dmg files but not with external drives.

Ted, Could you elaborate on the differences between "kill -9", "kill -HUP" and "kill". Thanks.

@Vitor I gave System preferences as an example because I red that I could assign keyboard shortcuts to System preferences menus. So, once in System preferences, I could hit a hotkey instead of typing the menu's first few letters in the search box. But then I thought, I won't spend X minutes assigning keyboard shortcuts to menus if the wonderful buffer can help me directly access to the menu (from the Alfred search bar). So I though "there certainly should be other use cases where it is useful to access app's sub menus directly from Alfred search bar". What use cases? Um.... Good question :-) Thank you for the sub options tip. It is exactly what I was looking for! @raguay.customct Shortcat app is interesting but as you said "it is buggy".