pdazero

hey @deanishe, thank you for your suggestion! i ended up already in my own implementation using a shellscript which uses mdfind internally.
 
in the end i did not check if there are no results, but append a "create" item all the time.
in case somebody wants to do something similar, my code is attached below.
 
cheers
 
#!/bin/bash QUERY=${1} DIRECTORY="/some/directory" RESULTS=$(mdfind -onlyin "${DIRECTORY}" "kMDItemContentType == 'net.daringfireball.markdown' && (kMDItemDisplayName == '${QUERY}*'c || kMDItemTextContent == '${QUERY}*'c)") SAVEIFS=${IFS} IFS=$'\n' RESULTS=($RESULTS) # Split Results IFS=${SAVEIFS} declare -a ITEMS for i in "${RESULTS[@]:0:8}"; do ITEM=$(cat << EOF { "uid": "${i}", "type": "file", "title": "$(echo ${i} | sed 's|.*/||')", "subtitle": "${i}", "arg": "${i}", "icon": { "type": "fileicon", "path": "${i}" } }, EOF ) ITEMS+=${ITEM} done ITEMS+=$(cat << EOF { "title": "Create '${QUERY}.md'", "subtitle": "Create a new Vault entry", "arg": "create:${QUERY}" }, EOF ) cat << EOF { "items": [${ITEMS}] } EOF  

@pdazero My first prio was to upgrade to Python 3 which I released now. I will look into your issues afterwards. I am thinking of implementing custom note title patterns similar to the data format setting. But for now you need to live with your hack or maestro script, sry. 

Markdown Notes help to manage Markdown files in a directory with powerful full text search (supports & and |), tag search or search for todos ( - [ ] or * [ ]) . It also allows to quickly create new notes based on custom templates.
 
I started to write this to replace the ton of Note taking apps that I used a while ago. I spent a lot of time to get this to work and the setup is a bit complex but once you went thru the steps it can indeed replace your note taking app. 
 
The best MD Editor for this purpose is Typora but any other MD editor works as well. 
 
Download at Git as usual: https://github.com/Acidham/alfred-markdown-notes/releases/latest