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Thanks for the details! I am still having problems with searching with 'author year'. To find this zotero item 

Einstein 1935 Can quantum-mechanical description of physical reality be considered complete? 

I can use 'Einstein 1935' but 'Ein 1935' does not work. My understanding of the fuzzy search was that it should work, no?

That was fast! Thanks for the great update!

Sending it via PM right now. Thanks!

For the search: I would prefer that the date gets searched or even better a user setting that allows you to configure what is searched by 'zot' (and the order). My personal preference would be "first_author_last_name year title".

Oh, that is great! I still have three question:

1) "Ein 1935" as a search string does not work for me. I tried it with multiple items (beginning of author name and year). Is it possible that year does not get searched? 

2) It is possible to exclude group libraries from the search? The reason is that a lot of my items show up twice because they are both in my personal and in my group libraries. Another reason is that there is a lot of crap in my group libraries, outdated entries or whatever. 

3) For me, it does not work to reveal items in group libraries (my preference would be to exclude them). When I select them, nothing happens. I think the library is indicated by the part before the underscore (e.g. 0_ENDQ22KT refers to an item in the personal library). 

Hi,

thanks for the great work on zotquery! I have one suggestion:

It would be great if zotquery supports fuzzy search as the main search with 'zot'. So if I want to search for the zotero item

Einstein 1935 Can quantum-mechanical description of physical reality be considered complete? 

I can simply type "Ein1935" to find it. My suggestion would be that the fuzzy search is applied to 

author year titile

So I could find the item also with "Einsteinquantum" or "Einquantum". But this could also be user configurable.

I think fuzzy search would be much nicer!

Alp even has a fuzzy search algorithm build in, which I contributed so I am happy to help with it. Just look at the fuzzy.py file. There is an example at the bottom of the code.

Congrats, looks great smarg19! I will check it out one of these days and hope that it will replace my old workflow!

What's about including all the colors by default (as you have done) and providing an option that allows users to exclude things like 'UIColor'? I always thought the way Alfred manages settings for workflows is not very good but I think there are several solutions out there.

I really like the idea but my plate is pretty full right now and I wasn't planing to work on my code anytime soon. I am happy to have a conversation though and answer some question if my code is confusing so that you can better use it. How does that sound?

The workflow file is on github now with '~/Library/Application Support/Zotero' as the location of the Zotero folder. So it might work out of the box but I haven't tested it. 

I also modified parts of libzotero but I don't remember how much. My goal was a quick search and lookup function and I never had problems with the caching file zotero is running. Right now, the workflow always caches after a search has ended because it would slow down the search when I do it first. 

I have put my code on github and invited you as a collaborator. It's private now just because I wanted to get it to you as quickly as possible and still have to check whether there is some private information in there. Afterwards, I will make it public.

I haven't looked at the code for a long time so I don't even know whether I included everything. Let me know whether it is working. You have to change the location of the zotero folder in 'cache.py' (mine is not at the default location). It's the zotero_folder variable. I don't think the location is defined anywhere else but maybe I am wrong. 

Great that you keep improving the workflow! Is there any way to exclude '[ns', 'ns', '[ui' and 'ui'? Never using that and prefer a more concise display.

I love this workflow but it stopped working after upgrading to 10.9. It just doesn't show any files. Anyone with the same experience?

Very useful!! 

I mainly navigate to the "Application Support" folder(s). So would it be possible to support direct navigation to them?

Thanks!

As @roccitman says, this is already possible. From the advanced usage section on the first post:

 

 

• r today release the hamsters into the wild
• r tomorrow bring about financial ruin upon my enemies
• r thursday have a banana
• r thursday at 15.30 to ask some difficult questions

Great, thanks! And sorry for overlooking this. I saw the tomorrow but didn't think the 'thursday' exists...

Would it be possible to add relative dates such as 

"remind tomorrow to ..."

"remind on Friday to..."

"remind on thursday at 3pm to ..."

Here, friday refers to next friday, thursday to next thursday... That would be great because I am not very good in calculating the date of next saturday instantly (part of the problem being that I often don't know today's date). 

This is a great workflow! I think it would be nice if the Alfread windows remains open (reopens with the same info) when the user deletes a file so that it's easy to delete multiple files...

I guess that explains it. My Contact app doesn't include any information about the skype name... Thanks!

This is great! The only thing that is not working for me is that I can't call skype contacts when I type 'call ...' They just don't show up. I only get phone numbers from my address book.

Hi,

 

is there already progress on a Zotero workflow?

Zotero integration would be greatly appreciated!

For now, the workflow is running with two operations: a) open attachment file, reveal item in Zotero library. 

It is not as fast I would hope though (despite caching) and I still need to implement some settings (mainly directory of zotero library). I will also not really be able to maintain the workflow. So are there people who could help with the last steps and be willing to contribute to maintaining the workflow? I will clean things up and upload it to github over the next days with a beta release.

Title pretty much says it. From time to time, I want to quickly share an image e.g. because a forum doesn't allow me to upload images. It would be great to have this as a file action!

Thanks and best!

Can you check whether your icon is in the avatars folder (see previous post on how to get there)

I checked the avatars folder but an image for my own icon is not in the folder...

Yeah, the update did the trick. Sorry for that. My own icon still does not show up though. 

'sr' now works without first selecting the person but the conversation only shows up after I start to type.

All the icons (my own and for friends) now disappeared. I get the skype icon for everyone or rather I slightly different version in which the lower right corner has some color overlay. I can post a screenshot if that would help. 

and by the way, I think it would be nice to see the due date in the subtitle. Maybe with a shorter date format like

(Created Wed, Nov 8, 2012 10:30am, Due ...)

Maybe this is to complicated but what's about a symbol as a keyword like '#', which is often used for tags. The idea would be this

'r' shows all reminder with 'add new reminder' on top (same behavior)

'r #' shows the list of reminder lists (not the actual reminders), tab autocompletes to 'r #work' or whatever is selected and now we get a list of reminder in work and when we select 'add new reminder', the reminder is added to 'work'

An easier solution would be without listing the lists and the completion and instead use 'r #work' to restrict to the work list and add reminders to that list. I think it's a little confusing if 'r work' works the way you described it. I also like that 'r #work' both shows item from a specific list and adds reminder to that list.