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the short version: I am looking to be able to create a workflow where a key combo opens the Alfred search bar... I enter a time in 24-hour format (hh:mm) and hit [Enter]... and Alfred then performs a task :10 minutes and :05 minutes before the time. the long version: I run several meetings a day at work over video conference. And one thing that I have found useful is that I have created a 'scene' using OBS that changes the background behind me when we are :10 minutes and :05 minutes away from the end of the meeting (screenshots attached below). I can either trigger them with a key combo... or by pressing a button on my Stream Deck that sends that key combo to OBS. But the flaw is that it is all a manual process. I have to either keep my eye on the clock to remember when to display the dialogs... or remember to set a couple alarms on my watch at the start of the meeting to remind me when to trigger the overlays. I would prefer to be able to bring up the Alfred search box and enter the time the meeting is scheduled to end... and then have Alfred automatically send the key combos that trigger the background transitions at the appropriate times. But I am blocked because I have only basic scripting skills and don't know how to go about getting Alfred to a) do the "math" to subtract 10 and 5 from the target end time, and b) to take an action automatically at a specific time. I hope there's enough in this description to make it clear what I'm hoping to achieve. But let me know if I can provide any additional info. And thanks in advance to everyone for reading this post and sharing your thoughts. (this is the image that I use as my 'green screen' background during video calls. It is much nicer than the converted garage space that I actually work in) (these are the two backgrounds that I switch to when we are nearing the end of the meeting)

Works perfectly. Thanks again for your help!

thank you very much for the quick reply. I sincerely appreciate it. Giving it a go now...

Apologies for what I am sure is at best a 3 on a "scale of 1-to-10" difficulty question... but I keep scratching my head on something and can't find the solution. my daily workflow: I manually keep a list of "special approvals" in an Excel doc for documentation purposes. To do this, I go to the website where I am reviewing and approving items... and when I see something that should be added to my tracking worksheet, I highlight and copy four different fields of data from the page... switch to Excel... and paste the four clippings in four different cells in a row. what I want to do with Alfred: I want to be able to manually highlight and copy the four items on the webpage that I need to track... switch to Excel... place my cursor in the first cell... and then trigger Alfred to paste Snippet 1 --> [tab key] --> paste Snippet 2 --> [tab key] --> paste Snippet 3 --> [tab key] --> paste Snippet 4 What would that workflow look like? I can't figure out how to paste specific snippets from my clipboard in a workflow (instead of just paste the first available). Thanks in advance for your help.