rob213

Hello,

I have a morning routine where I open apps sequentially with 3mn delays in between otherwise my mac freezes because the apps are so large (DevonThink, Mail).

I wanted to do the same thing for my bedtime routine: quitting each app sequentially with 3 mn delays in between, but I can find a simple quit app action for a single app. If I rapidly sequentially quit apps I have all kinds of problems including corrupting my DevonThink database.

All I can find is the quit app automation depicted below.

thanks in advance for your time and help

OK thank you Vitor

thank you @vitor. It's clear now. I would consider this to be a very irritating bug. I spent more than an hour on this today looking for it, and I am exasperated. I am probably not the only one trying to get through the user manual and hitting a stumbling block on the first page. Thanks very much for your patience and help.

How do you "select no workflow in the sidebar" ? there is always one selected and I can't find a way to see this:

thank you for your patience

thank you @vitor

Hello,

my morning routine consists of opening mail, DevonThink, and others. If I open all at the same time, my mac can freeze because mail and DevonThink for example are enormous. 

I want to emulate the example below taken from your get started guide which I found on the Internet. 

In the workflow below, how would I add delays (for example 3 minutes) between each action when I type the keyword morning.

thanks in advance for your time and help

In the user manual, I read the following, but can't find it. I go to alfred pref → click on workflows, and then what ?

thanks in advance for your time and help

Creating a workflow

To get started with these guides, open Alfred's preferences to the Workflows preferences.

With no workflow selected in the sidebar, you'll see a block of options in the centre of the canvas; Choose the "Getting Started Guide".

Getting Started: Keyword to Web Search - Alfred Help and Support

Hello,

I very much like the display large type action in situation where I have to remember to do something as soon as I come back to my computer.

Unfortunately, I find that it is not of any practical use for me because anytime I put the display to sleep before leaving or wake it up upon return, or if any window flashes onto my screen in my absence or if I accidentally trackpad tap or mouse click the message disappears.

Would there be a way to make it more resilient, for example for the displayed large text to remain in place until I do something like press escape of close the window ?

thanks in advance for your time and help

thank you @vitor

41 minutes ago, pixelgeek said:

Depends on your browser. If you are creating the URL you can add a target="new" attribute to the url and see if that works.

where is new ?

41 minutes ago, pixelgeek said:

 

Where is the URL being generated?

in features → web search 

thank you for your reply

thanks in advance for your time and help

It no longer works, even with bkconf. I will create my own workflow. thanks again very much @vitor

thank you very much @vitor for moving my question to this page. It is greatly appreciated and I will remember for the future. Sorry for the trouble.

10 hours ago, vitor said:

pen Alfred and type grconf.

when I type grconf in alfred nothing happens as in 

I just installed the goodreads workflow by the excellent @deanishe 

If I type the keyword BK, all I end up with is a google search.

During the installation process, users are told to et an API key via "grconf" or the workflow won't work.

How is this done ? I can't find the answer is neither alfred forum nor support.

thanks in advance for your time and help

Debug  (I replaced my name with XXXX)

I typed BK The Prince

(searching for book with title The Prince)

[20:05:24.585] Logging Started...
[20:05:47.712] Book Search[Script Filter] Queuing argument 'the prince'
[20:05:47.841] Book Search[Script Filter] Script with argv 'the prince' finished
[20:05:47.844] ERROR: Book Search[Script Filter] Code 127: /Users/XXXXX/Library/Caches/com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred/Workflow Scripts/2808143E-EB08-42E4-AC39-1B4D0C79840A: line 1: ./alfred-booksearch: No such file or directory

thank you @vitor and @Stephen_C

Alfred 5.1

thanks in advance for your time and help

thanks very much @Stephen_C

I could not find such a workflow neither in the gallery nor in the forum.

thanks in advance for your time and help

Hello @Kupe and thank you for your interesting comments. 

8 minutes ago, Kupe said:

Could you just do a normal folder search using Alfred and once you found a file to open just select it: then it would open in Forklift presuming that you have made Forklift your default file manager.

You have a good point but it is the eternal problem of the small Alfred window displaying the results. You see 9 files only at a time and requiring tedious scrolling to see more files, a far cry from any file manager which is full page and can display 50+ files without having to scroll.

I would be very interested in knowing how you deal with this issue. There must be something that I am missing.

11 minutes ago, Kupe said:

Also did you pick up on Stephen_C has quite a good workflow to move selected files in finder which can be easily adapted for Forklift. This is useful because unless you use some other hack Forklift does not have an inbuilt command to move files to a location other than the adjacent panel.

In this regard I have a simple Alfred work flow that moves a selected file to a defined location/path I find this a lifesaver when using Forklift.

 

My problem is that I am not very intelligent (according to my spouse) and I end up constantly going from Finder to Forklift to Pathfinder multiple times a day. If I use these types of workflow, I am concerned that I will for example highlight a file in pathfinder, run the workflow and accidentally move the currently highlighted file in Finder or Forklift which could lead to a disaster.  The problem with file managers is that each one has some unique features, so I end up using them all.

thank you for your comment

thank you @Stephen_C !

May I ask which file manager you use ? I am just starting with Forklift and am open to working with another. 

I decided to quit pathfinder because of subscription costs, bugs and atrocious support.

Works perfectly. thanks very much @Andrew , and thanks again for your time and effort @jordikt

3 minutes ago, Andrew said:

Here is a super simple workflow which opens Alfred's Preferences directly to the Workflow tab from a hotkey.

 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/x11jsej4b8t9mja/Workflow Prefs.alfredworkflow?dl=1

 

Alternatively, if you want to use BTT, open the following URL instead of using AppleScript:

 

alfredpreferences://navigateto/workflows

 

8 minutes ago, jordikt said:

Yes, you are right. Sometimes the window is not activated.

Type this, it works fine:

Sorry: same problem. Sometimes works, other times screen just flashes. It's all fine. I am concerned you are spending too much time on this. I can use the slow method.

thanks @jordikt 

The script is definitely blocking AppleScript . The old version definitely does not work after restarting BTT. The new script unfortunately is worst than my original. Double flash on the screen. All that being said, i remain extremely grateful for your time and help

3 minutes ago, jordikt said:

Not necessary to add end tell as I wrote it.

 

But you can type it also like this if you want, it's the same:

 

tell application "Alfred Preferences"

activate

end tell

return 1

 

I tested it. Unfortunately, sometimes it works fine, sometimes the alfred pref window simply flashes on the screen and I remain the app I was using at the time I triggered BTT. Could the script require a delay ? thanks again