To perform a normal Spotlight search via Alfred, I remember from way back that it’s best to type a leading space before the search term (is this still the recommended way?).
Leading space does bring up more results than if I omit the space. But it yields a different list than a Spotlight search. If I want normal Spotlight results, should I just call up a Spotlight search and leave Alfred out of it?
I use Alfred's Web Search to search DuckDuckGo or Twitter for a given term, and have set up custom searches for some more obscure sites.
Is there a way to set up more complex searches? E.g. search Yelp for "tacos" in "Miami" or search Google Translate for "emperor" in "Russian"?
I have file search working on everything but Books, which live in a strange purgatorial space.
Actual file path is:
Library/Mobile Documents/iCloud~com~apple~iBooks/Documents/BOOKNAME.pdf
But if you view a book document in Finder, it seems to appear in iCloud Drive/Books....even though there's no Books folder within the iCloud Drive folder. And this is normal.
But while Alfred can find a file in that directory (if I enter the file name), it won't find it by its content text.
Any advice?
Longtime user. I upgraded to new computer, and Alfred can't find any files (it's been a week, and initial Spotlight indexing has finished)
Attached are results searching in Spotlight and in Alfred (the latter prefaced by a space, per normal), plus my longtime Alfred file search prefs.
I just tried again, and neither pa nor ps works. I just get normal Alfred behavior, with no regard to Pinboard. I deleted workflow and reinstalled (including API), and same result. Phelp doesn't do anything, either. I quit Alfred and relaunched, too....no improvement.
Andrew, has anything been added in v.3 to either default to "pass through modifier keys", or to change a whole bunch of workflows to this in one swoop (not individually configure each one, one at a time)?