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so helpful! im so close. So I got the workflow to show the images. But I can't figure out the last part Copy selected image to clipboard.  Once I pull up the grid view and navigate to the image I want, how do I copy that image to clipboard?

made vid

https://www.loom.com/share/9c18710eafeb488b9a9b5aa87716a810

I figured this out. It was my universal hotkey. I never used that before. thanks stephen!

Update! I figured this out.  You need to select text and then enter the hotkey.

Original Question: My universal action hotkey is not giving me a pop up. See 20 sec vid. it appears to be triggering Chrome Edit menu but there is nothing with shift + option + command + N in the Chrome Edit menu.  I also confirmed this and closed chrome.  When I enter my hotkey, nothing happens.  

https://www.loom.com/share/c065d66d776c45abbd208eefcfeb829e?sid=93a8cf6b-33ee-4f44-93cc-0eff03be460f

This is simple but very useful for me bc I'm constantly needing to save little snippets of text I need to return to througout the day. I can save text by pasting it into Alfred but this is extra clicks. The functionality exists to select the text and then save that to the quick note file but I have not been able to get this to work yet. See loom and attached screenshot.

https://github.com/Stephen-Lon/Alfred-workflow-save-ur-note

thanks so much! I took my first stab at a workflow. replicated what you did for the most part but I still cant make a "square" connector btw Grid view and Image view and unsure about configuration. I made a 54 sec loom and this time it's full screen so you will see it! 

PS (unrelated to this thread)I just got your Save text workflow. Appears useful. I have some questions on that but will start a new community thread. 

https://www.loom.com/share/8255517434b04119b5ed20d91f8d25be?sid=0f46d519-4ca0-44a0-b161-8068031a8a2c

thanks so much! Sorry about the vid- it was not full screen.  I'm very green to workflows but this sounds like it could work.  I  tried using the the transfer.sh from the command line using

curl --upload-file /Users/davidrobinson/Desktop/open_screenshots_folder.alfredworkflow https://transfer.sh/open_screenshots_folder.alfredworkflow

but it failed: "curl: (7) Failed to connect to transfer.sh port 443: Operation timed out"

I've uploaded the workflow to a public page on notion - can you download it from here?

https://wilsonp.notion.site/Alfred-workflows-370b81d2b2f349e0b7e09ef77d206d40?pvs=4

pasting a screenshot of the workflow for rerference

hey stephen - so I have a workflow Open Screenshots Folder by Andrew Pepperrell that displays all PNG files in my Screenshots folder.

But I want to be able to paste these screenshots or potentially create a snippet for specific files.  

Made a 30 second loom showing what I'm looking to do

https://www.loom.com/share/7fa82978a9ea4d2db9d9f26d3b5583c8?sid=409761cd-8147-4a34-810b-b1495b6ca1ac

Is it possible to make a snippet that shows an image? Or is there a workflow for this? I often screenshot data that I want to quickly recall instead of copy paste etc. Thanks

I'm aware you can access MAC OS clipboard MOST RECENT ITEM ONLY.

But often I've saved a bunch of images or text to my clipboard that later on I want to paste. Instead of clicking Command + 1, Command + 2, to paste each, is there a root folder for this so I can just drag the images/text into another document?

I'm using MAC OS Big Sur and Alfred 4.8.

Example/Use case

I was casually saving a couple screenshots to my clipboard yesterday.  As I became more interested, I ended up with 20 or so.  Usually I would save these to dropbox so I could drag them to a different place.  But in this case they were in my clipboard.  How do I access these?

On 10/26/2018 at 12:15 PM, dfay said:

I believe this is a problem with iOS 12 Shortcuts and Dropbox.  See https://talk.automators.fm/t/shortcuts-and-dropbox/1917

 

If you have TextExpander and TE Touch (last non-subscription versions) it's possible to use Hazel and AppleScript to do a one-way sync of snippets from Alfred to TE on the Mac and then use TE Touch on iOS.  At least it works for me - I can provide docs and scripts if there's interest.

Hi Dfay,  I would love the script / docs for this (I'm a bit of newbie on scripts but used one of your python scripts for bulk import of snippets which was a life saver).  Also,  I have TextExpander (legacy) but cannot find TE Touch- is there another name?   Thanks again

Great work.  This is a life saver, thanks

Lots of my projects require accessing specific sections of large websites. 

For example, I just created about 60 snippets with these keywords for different sections of this site.

There's got to be an easier way.  Does anyone know? 

key     link

zr81    https://zr.planning.nyc.gov/article-viii/chapter-1 

zr82    https://zr.planning.nyc.gov/article-viii/chapter-2

zr83    https://zr.planning.nyc.gov/article-viii/chapter-3