himat

@himat Alfred uses a very efficient in-memory method for doing snippet keyword lookups, and is very conscientious about battery / CPU usage.
 
While having snippet expansion enabled does make Alfred look for keyword matches on every keystroke, the time taken to lookup per keystroke is always shorter than 1/10,000th of a second (and generally much faster than this), which is less than many routine macOS tasks which are going on the whole time under the hood.
 
In my analysis, it makes very little difference if you have 10 or 1000 snippets. The most time consuming part is the macOS accessibility interactions.
 
Cheers,
Andrew

I want to run a program every time I type something like ";today;"
But is there any way right now to do a pattern matched snippet so that I could have a snippet using regex like ";.*;" ?
 
Basically I want to make a date workflow where if I type in ";tomorrow;" it will replace that text with tomorrow's date. This seems like it would be a lot more seamless to use rather than having to cmd+space to bring up alfred, typing in the workflow keyword, and then typing in "tomorrow".

Thank you - it works now!! Great insight.