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@Mr Pennyworth Thanks but this isn't about Alfred's knowledge/latching. It's simply that Alfred currently puts matching applications above all other results, regardless of their implied or learned order.

Thanks @deanishe that's what I was afraid of. Good point about adding the dot prefix, but I'm afraid my muscle memory usually gets the best of me. Here's my vote for a checkbox along the lines of "[X] Prioritize workflow keyword matches above those from default results" Another idea (that would potentially be even better) would be to add a setting to the individual workflow objects that effects this independently per use, e.g.:

@gr8 off topic but: what keystroke visualizer did you use for that screen recording? It doesn't look like any of the ones I know of: keycastr Mousepose Keystroke Pro Visualize Also slightly OT but, for quick retreival of encrypted secrets, I'm very happy with Bitwarden + blacs30/bitwarden-alfred-workflow. May be safer/faster than this scripting addition which seems to have been last updated in 2011.

- Alfred 4.1 b1205 - macOS 11.0.1 I have a few keyword triggers that seem to overlap with names in /Applications (and keywords on certain apps therein). Example: E.g. the example above, ocr is a keyword trigger, and TextSniper is an app that has "ocr" in its Spotlight metadata keywords. I'd like TextSniper to appear at the bottom of the results instead of the top, since 99% of the time I want to action the keyword match, not the app match. Alfred doesn't seem to learn this like it does in other areas—it always puts matching keywords/Apps above keyword trigger matches. Is there a workaround for this? Or may I kindly suggest adding a preference for this?

yes! it's working now as of 1203! 🎉 very much appreciated. here is the updated workflow I'm using, in case you or @Vero want to play with it https://dsc.cloud/b854da/File-Buffer-Test-v2.alfredworkflow

Thanks @Andrew ! I updated to 1199 first, then quickly saw 1201 came out and so updated again. But, for me anyway, the buffer is still getting erroneously cleared after passing files from a File Action into a File Buffer step. Currently I have "Clear after actioning" enabled and "Clear if buffer isn't used for 5 minutes" disabled in prefs: one more (unrelated) thing: this notification appeared after the 1199 update, not sure where this setting is in the UI, or if anything needs to be adjusted

Thanks @Vero - Yes I do have scrollbars set to 'always'. I tried changing the setting to 'auto based on mouse' but the white box did not disappear.

On the far right side, it looks like there's an opaque white flexiblebox that partially obscures the grab / reordering bars... see below This is from BigSur 11.01 (20B29) + Alfred 4.3.1197

@Andrew Ah, yes I did have that enabled. I didn't consider or realize that activating a File Action from Alfred's navigation was considered "actioning the items in the buffer". To me they are separate functions, but that's fine, I worked around it by deactivating that checkbox and then creating a separate trigger for clearing the buffer.

@Andrew I love these new File Buffer enhancements. Thank you! Is there possibly a bug with File Action ==> File Buffer ? I'm seeing a strange issue where, for some reason, passing a file from a File Action into an "Add passed-in files to File Buffer" workflow object results in just emptying the entire file buffer contents. I have checked the debug outputs from "selected (Finder) objects" and my File Action—and textually they are identical, but for some reason only the "selection in macOS" hotkey path works: I uploaded a test workflow here any idea?

@Andrew I'm going to piggy back on this thread because I think it might be related to something I just discovered... I'm also on Big Sur 11.0.1 + Alfred 4.2.1-1187 After the "upgrade" 😞 to BigSur, my contact searches started turning up empty. I checked to make sure the metadata files were there on the disk (yep) and were readable, etc. Here's how my contacts search is set (using a custom "file filter" search) I finally tried enabling the "Show files marked as System File" checkbox... and voilà, everything was right again. A further check revealed that macOS had decided to mark all of the contact metadata (.ABCDP files) as "system files": $ mdls -name kMDItemSupportFileType 0A6EF4A4-F197-4E58-89B1-3289AA2C418D\:ABPerson.abcdp kMDItemSupportFileType = ( MDSystemFile ) No amount of "sudo xattr -d com.apple.metadata:kMDItemSupportFileType" etc worked for me to try to remove that flag. I don't know if it's possible, but for now the only working fix for me is to enable the "Show files marked as System File" checkbox in my workflow.

Yep that would be pretty useful! I like the concept of 'alias' since that is already a familiar term for macOS users. Something like this would look nice:

@Macchio - @alfredpleb - @blizzrdof77 -- I found a bug that prevents certain keywords from appearing in the search results. Need to beef up the JSON parsing a bit but I should have it working in a day or 2. I'll definitely post an update soon!

@alfredpleb Sorry for the delay on that. I haven't released PrefsPlus (yet) ... although I am continuing to use it and it's working well (for me). I'd like to share it. Would you mind testing it out to see if it works for you before I release it widely? I could send you a link via PM.

Got it @Andrew - working great, thank you 🙂 — stay safe!

Hi @Andrew do you think you'd consider this "always show LargeType verbatim" option at some point?

@Andrew btw - I tried updating to prerelease 4.0.9.1143 to see if this was still there (and it is)

Alfred 4.0.8.1135 macOS 10.15.3 This is just a small quirk I noticed the other day: If you have the Snippets feature page open but Alfred is not the active/focused App, you can still right click and get the context menu to appear, however any item selected from this menu will have no effect. It just vanishes into the ether.

v 1.1.0 uploaded, changes the bulk mode from a keyword trigger to a script filter so it can do some additional error checking and grab max_clips by counting the # if images in the history.

I uploaded v1.0.3 that has that change and 1 other small fix for bulk mode.

Nice idea !

Much appreciated. I have a few other things planned for this workflow, I'll definitely make that adjustment.

Thanks for that @deanishe . Wonder what Apple will do now that python2 is deprecated, since they've been ripping stuff out of macOS with great enthusiasm.

Just to clarify what I was asking about above with the List Comprehensions, I'm talking about this. Populating the list using List Comprehension items = [] with database(dbpath) as db: rows = db.execute("SELECT foo...) items = [{ "title": r[1], "arg": r[0] } for r in rows ] Populating the list using a loop and append (this is the current method used) items = [] with database(db_path) as db: rows = db.execute("SELECT bar...) for r in rows: if r[2] == None: (...do stuff...) else: (...do other stuff...) items.append({ "title": r[1], "arg": r[0] }) My question is, is there a way to use the List Comprehension method while still allowing for the if/then/else code to execute?

Latest release: v2.3.5 Hey guys, Thought I'd share this little workflow. I found myself often needing to dump out the last N clipboard images from Alfred's history to disk. It was tedious before, find the right item, copy it back to the pasteboard, paste into Preview, save as PNG, give it a non-overlapping name, etc. So I created this to make it semi-automatic. Shouldn't need anything special, but please let me know if you run into any trouble. Feedback welcome! One thing for sure I would like some advice on is whether the Script Filter (Python) could be turned back into a List Comprehension which from what I've read is more efficient. I couldn't figure out how to do that and also dynamically update the database rows (e.g. converting "/" to " / " so that Alfred's word matching would match correctly, picking a nicer generic icon when app name==null etc). @deanishe if you have time I'm sure you know the answer to this... GitHub https://github.com/luckman212/alfred_clipsaver_workflow Download Latest Release: https://github.com/luckman212/alfred_clipsaver_workflow/releases/latest/