yoose

You could very possibly create a workflow to search csv files by content, but this would have to work outside of the OS X metadata server, so isn't built into Alfred by default.

yeah, that’s what I ended up doing.

Alfred uses OS X's metadata server for searching so is bound by some of its limitations. It looks like the text content search (which works a bit like a lucene full text search) treats csv files as database files and doesn't index the content. If I rename a test csv file as txt then the content is found.

 

Cheers,

Andrew

hi andrew, thanks for replying. I know that changing the extension works, but just didn’t know why. since changing the extension is not a good option for me, is there any way around this issue?

anyone else have this problem or is it just me?

Hi,

I tried to use the built-in alfred file search to search inside files it works for the most part, but have noticed that it is not looking inside my csv files. 

I thought it was maybe my csv files, but I changed the extension to txt and it works. I then created my own workflow and dragged the csv file into the "File Types" of the file filter block and added the folder that the file is in to the scope, but it does not work. I changed the extension to txt, cst, huh and those all work, but when I change it back to csv then it stops working again.

anyone have any idea of what might be wrong? is this a bug or is there a setting I can change to fix this?

thanks.

I am just now getting the error message "Error: The menu structure wasn't readable" but Alfred 2 is checked in the System Preferences > Privacy > Accessibility settings. I think that if I can somehow remove Alfred from this list and enable it through the permissions prompt again, it will start working again but there's no way to do this using the UI.

 

@ctwise, any ideas?

I had a similar problem with aText. I unchecked and rechecked it in Accessibility (did not have to remove it from the list) and it started working properly again, perhaps try that.

for me its defined as the shortcut key for previous path, which is in preferences->features->file search->navigation i don’t remember changing it, so it might be the default

It should do that… Can you make some tests please?

 

 

Great!

I did try it with the OS X notes app, highlighted some text then ran alfred to edit with textedit then pb with alfred and it sent the cursor to the end of the note instead of the end of the selection. I also tried starting with textedit and then going to word and back to textedit with the same result.

Evernote does not have a prepend command only an append one.

 

I think it would be possible to do it manually (and I’ll make some tests) but for now I’d like to use only Evernote native commands.

ah I see. thanks for looking into it.

carlos, thanks for another great workflow. is it possible to have the cursor be at the end of the text that is pasted back instead of at the end of the document?

I've noticed this too.  Certain apps don't respond to applescript.  Unfortunately, not much I can do about it

thanks, nice to know its not just me, weird that a native OS X app doesn’t respond to applescript though.

hi, thanks for this workflow. I ran across a possible bug. It does not seem to work for preview for me.

 

 

Great to hear and thank you for your feedback!

 

By the way, version 6 is coming soon:

• Easily import selected messages in Mail
• Imporved New Note from Text Selection if topmost application is Mail
• URL and email URL added to source URL field of the note (instead of appended to the end of the note)
• Improved support for multiple selected files in Finder
• New Note from Finder Selected Files: note creation date will be the file one (thanks to dantetemp)
• Removed dependency from OSX preference Access for assistive devices
• Several internal improvements including support for Alfred 2.0.3 (187) that fixes some issues regarding AppleScripts

 

hi carlos, thanks for the nice workflow, the updates look great. is there a way to add an option for appending to the beginning of the file instead of to the end? thanks. 

Thank you yoose for the detailed instructions. Thank you Carlos-SZ for providing the 5.7beta and the suggestions to quit Evernote and Alfred 2. I can now append text to existing notes. This is really helpful to my daily workflow. So appreciate this

no problem, happy to help and glad to hear you got it working

Nope, sorry this is one for Apple. "5/10 is not a date applescript understands".

 

I'll consider porting that part of the code to PHP instead, but only if there's enough people requesting this to make it worth the effort.

ah, i see. well i will just have to type in those few extra characters! thanks.

r on 5/10 12:00am to test reminder workflow

@yoose:  I can confirm this. Same happens here.  I've also tried taking away the word "at" but still shows 12am

@drking thanks for confirming this, looks like we may have a solution though

so it looks like 

 

r on 5/10/13 10:00 am to test reminder workflow

 

(note the space before "am") might work in your case.

 

This is somewhat out of my control because date formats will vary between systems, so I just use applescript to figure out the date based on what you type. I'm in the UK, so "10/5/13 10:00" works for me. For things like "tomorrow at 10:00", etc. I've coded the time calculations myself, so I know how they should behave.

thanks for this jack. it works with or without the space, 10:00am and 10:00 am. I am not sure why i did not try those combinations. However, it does need to year. Is there any way to parse it so the year is not required? when i use

r on 5/10 12:00am to test reminder workflow

it parses it to 5/10/12 and then defaults to 12:00pm

otherwise, it seems to work well. thanks again for the great work.

so this _should_ work, but probably doesn't in your case:

 

r on 5/10/13 10:00 to test reminder workflow

 

Can you run "rtest", paste the results into a document, and then post the "Current date" line. This will tell me how your system formats (and interprets) dates, and we can go from there.

Hi, thank you for the reply. You are correct it does not work, it shows it at 12:00am.

"r tomorrow at 10am to test workflow" works correctly.

The current date line from rtest is:

Current date: Tuesday, May 7, 2013 4:28:53 PM

Hi, 

Thank you for this as it is very useful, but I am either unable to, or it is not yet supported, add a reminder with the following format.

r on 5/10/13 at 10am to test reminder workflow

it parses the 5/10/13 correctly, but it always shows 12am instead of 10am. i tried 10:00, 10am, 10 am. also, is there a way to default the year to the current year if its not there so I can just input 5/10 instead of 5/10/13?

thank you.

Can someone explain how to append to a note? Specifically, nothing happens after this step

hold fn key (the subtitle will indicate the appending operation) and hit return key

I can create notes in the Evernote app fine. However, the fn key followed by the return key does not trigger any notes to append to

after you press enter you should be back in alfred with the text "* note" in which case you can type to search the note you want to append to. however, there should be some notes that are shown in the alfred result list.

thank you for this, i have been looking for something like this and cant believe i just found it.

i would also like this feature added. the "open with ..." option (which i also have selected) does not seem to be tied to the "Sort actions by last used per file type". I do see that Alfred does learn the actions and one of them is open with... but after that option is selected the Apps from which we can choose does not get sorted by most often used. it is particularly annoying because some file types, such as jpg have many options for opening them and the couple that i use do not show up in the top 10 and i have to scroll down.

In fact I have this app.  I like it. At home on my Retina it's no problem to have running 24/7 but at work I have to count every, single, megabyte of RAM used and I have to use it carefully.  Also, Popclip costs something, something that should cost nothing considering the 'power' a Mac has, even in Applescript, it's astounding that there isn't one really good service or script for something like this. Running an entire app, though filled with other features, is a bit crazy for this single feature.

 

However, I take your point. It's definitely a valid solution, especially for either casual users or people that have enough RAM to validate the use of.  I have used it, at home, and it has a lot of great plugins that offer a big increase in functionality like the Evernote integration. 

 

Thanks

I agree it is a great little program and has great plugins, cant wait to see what else comes up. I also feel like it should be in OS X seeing as how its inspired by iOS, but am grateful that it is not too expensive.

Here is the one i use http://www.alfredforum.com/topic/338-recent-downloads-with-feedback/?hl=recent I havent thoroughly tested it so not sure how accurate it is, but it seems to work well for me.

Thanks, this is really useful! Since you guys mentioned that you were looking for other methods, there is an app that has the similar functionality through an extension, Popclip http://pilotmoon.com/popclip/ It is pretty convenient as it is automatically appears, iOS style, if you use your keyboard to select text and do not want to use the mouse, you can easily create a hotkey to have alfred make the menu appear, which is what I have done.

How is this different from Alleyoop?

seems to be quite similar but looks like this allows individual updates where as alleyoop currently updates everything at the same time

This is a great workflow Vítor thanks for the good work.