Alan He

quickly find your missing iPhone (or other Apple device)
 
 

 

 
 
download: https://github.com/alanhg/alfred-workflows/tree/master/find-my-iphone
 

Hi currently I toggle alfred through menu bar, one needs to click the menu bar Alfred icon, move mouse down and then click "toggle alfred". This is three steps.
Would it be possible to have an option to make it one step. So the option would be click the menu bar Alfred icon, which toggle Alfred. Spotlight have this one-step behaviour.
Further, it is be nice to allow configuration, for example, configure the click to toggle clipboard. I use clipboard extensively, and some clipboard manager have a menu bar icon, once clicked, will toggle the clipboard manager float window. Alfred by far have the best clipboard manager, so I would really hope Alfred can have this function.
 
Note: I understand I can toggle default window/clipboard through keyboard shortcut. I am an IT professional, throughout the years, I thought I only need keyboard and terminal. But then I start to develop Carpal tunnel syndrome. That's when I start to diversify my input method, mouse/trackpad/dictation. So it would be nice I can toggle alfred default window/clipboard within one menu bar click. Thank you!

With 8 years of experience helping our Alfred users daily, I can say that this isn't always true. A very likely scenario is that a user will blindly select "unlimited", even though they don't need it, ignore the implications warning, then start complaining about Alfred appearing in Apple's "Significant Energy" menu.
 
As I said, I will very likely add in a longer expiry, but not as a trivial "turn up the volume".

It's likely that in the future, the maximum persistence time for clipboard history will be increased.
 
Without going deeply into the architectural details, the reason this isn't a simple "turn up the volume to unlimited" type change is because there is are significant performance considerations.
 
It doesn't matter if setting the maximum clipboard history makes searching the clipboard history slower, this is, after all, the user's prerogative. The fundamental issue is more about maintaining an extremely large full text index on inserting new text data every single time you cmd+c, leading to higher idle CPU usage (and potentially lower battery life).
 
Alfred is intrinsically extremely lightweight, so before providing a longer clipboard history, a number of architectural changes would have to happen. For example, one solution could be to automatically archive data every week into a different "long term" store. This would allow Alfred's day to day usage to be extremely fast and low resource use, while providing access to those "every so often" needed items you copied 2 years ago.
 
To be clear on timescales, any architectural change won't happen on a maintenance release - but rest assured that this feature request is on my radar.
 
Cheers,
Andrew

+1.
 
This is the way most similar software works, and makes more sense in terms of any potential downsides of a large history.
 
A significantly higher limit for plain text items than for images also seems reasonable and useful.
 

Sometimes I want to invoke multiple different keywords, but the execution processing logic is exactly the same at present.
 
I have to copy it. If logic modify, I have to modify twice.
 
It's better if Alfred support keyword alias.
 
To be honest, this requirement may not be used much, but I still want to mention it and see your opinions.
 
 

I'd like to see aliases added, tbh.
 
People/things have a fairly fuzzy one-to-many relationship with names, and some equivalent of aliases is important in a system is supposed to adapt to the user.
 
Duplicating Keywords/Script Filters is a poor workaround because any duplicates will get removed if the workflow is updated, while keywords (and by implication aliases) are preserved.

Hi,
 
Is there a way to sort universal actions list? I don't like using the option "sort actions by last used per type".
 
Cheers,
Andre

@Ben C We have an internal tool for migrating Alfred 2 snippets to Alfred 4. Pop an email to our info@ address and I'll share it with you
 
Cheers,
Andrew

I've just added in a ⇧⌘F shortcut in preferences which will highlight the Workflows filter field. I've actually made this global within the preferences too, so if you're not in the workflow tab, the shortcut will switch to the workflows tab, then focus the field.
 
This will be in the next release.

Clever, and brute force, but I'll take it! Thanks.
 
Would be thrilled if @Andrew would consider a UI-accessible way to bulk enable/disable workflows too!

I think he means triggering a shortcut on an iOS device to control Alfred Remote, not running them on a Mac.

There is no way those commands are equivalent. You're running them from different directories with relative paths.
 
If Alfred's debugger is isn't indicating any error, then the most likely explanation is that the script isn't outputting anything.

This is indeed the case, and it should be a feature request.
 
Looking forward to official reply.

https://www.alfredapp.com/help/advanced/sync/

I think hotkey should enhance, because it improve productivity.
 
When active on any workflow and hotkey- ⌘ F, cursor should move to Filter input.
 
 

 
 
 
Besides, ⌘ 1-6 change tab is perfect if support it.
 
 
New ideas
 
When workflow active, I think shortkey for env setting/export/remote. like ⌘ E
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

Those are two different themes, as far as Alfred is concerned: Alfred doesn't have a concept of theme variants.
 
To set your light theme, choose an Alfred theme when the macOS colour scheme is light. To set your dark theme, choose a theme when macOS is in dark mode.
 
Alfred will remember those choices and switch between them when the OS switches between light and dark modes.

@SJ2K
 
I have updated the workflow. and it support AirPlay
 
https://github.com/alanhg/alfred-workflows/tree/master/switch-audio
 

Here’s a script that can import your macOS text replacements into an Alfred snippet collection.
 

Sometimes, I want to see the picture clearly, it would be nice if it can support zooming in, or for example ⇧ to preview the image
 

The Find My app in Big Sur is a Catalyst app → meaning it’s made from the iOS app → meaning it doesn’t support AppleScript. At best you’d be able to get a clunky workaround with GUI automation. Alternatively, Apple could make some API available for it, but I very much doubt it. Trying to automate it via the website might be the most feasible way to do it.
 
In short, probably best not to count on it.

Please post your Workflow somewhere when asking for help. It’s not possible to debug your issue from a mostly empty screenshot and the name of a script. We have zero idea of what your code is doing.

Hi,
One thing that I think would make Alfred better is if you could batch import workflows. When you try to do it now, it just takes the first one, asks you about wether you want to import, imports it, and ignores all the others. What you could do is whenever one tries to import multiple workflows or themes, have multiple prompts going through the list of themes/workflows that were opened, letting you accept or deny. Even better yet, you could have a checkbox, "do the same for the rest of the selection" that would function something like this:

But instead of replacing or note replacing a file, it would install or deny a workflow/theme. You could also have an option that would always accept amy theme or workflow that was opened.

I think there should be no way at the moment.
 
This relies on both apps having corresponding support.
 
 
Looking forward to the official answer.

I think it should be possible, such as this workflow
 
https://github.com/squatto/alfred-imessage-2fa/