Jimmbo

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?

Ooh, perfect. Thanks, Vitor!

Note that Alfred DOES find apps (per normal, without a leading space).

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.

On 2/19/2018 at 5:39 PM, Carlos-Sz said:

 

There is a chance the workflow can not parse the bookmarks, e.g., and unexpected character.

 

Try to open Alfred Preferences, go to the workflow and turn on debug mode. Then use ps and copy the error shown in Alfred.

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.

Just installed and configured the Pinboard API Token.

"pa" works, but "ps" always finds nothing.

Any suggestions?

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)?

The reason I didn't make this the default is that it can have some weird unpredictable affects. A good example of this is if you setup a hotkey to launch iTunes or iPhoto which includes alt in the combo, then this mod key is passed through to these apps and they will be launched with a dialog to select an alternative library.

 

I'll add a note to consider what I can do with this for the future, but it will definitely be more obvious of an option!

 

Cheers,

Andrew