eay

Hello gaoruijie. I made a workflow called “iMessage to Friend”, which allows you to directly write and send a message to a friend from within Alfred. Just hit Alfred’s hotkey, enter your friends (nick)name, write a message, hit enter and you’re done. Maybe that's what you're looking for. I posted about it over here: http://www.alfredforum.com/topic/3220-imessage-to-friend/

Strange. Do you have more than one iCloud account enabled in iMessage? This causes problems. Also, if your iCloud account isn’t the first account in iMessage’s account list, you could try to change this: Maybe this will help. Otherwise feel free to email me a screenshot: eay /at/ eay /dot/ cc

Thanks, tschoof! Group chats are a great idea! What follows is a technical explanation why they aren't possible right now (sorry!): The problem is: iMessage's AppleScript support isn't documented at all, but after some Google research, it looks like iMessage's handle for group chats gets generated automatically (something like "chat354574422665" <- random number), while the handle for a single user is his phone number or email address. I hoped that it's just some kind of array ("012345,678910" or "012345+5678910"), but it's not. I extracted the group chat number from iMessage's

Hello everyone, I finally updated my Alfred v1 extension "iMessage to Friend" to support v2. "iMessage to Friend" allows you to directly write and send a message to a friend from within Alfred. Just hit Alfred’s hotkey, enter your friends (nick)name, write a message, hit enter and you’re done. No more clicking and application switching required. Answering your friends’ texts won't take you out of your work anymore. The setup is a little bit tricky, but there are detailed setup instructions on my blog, where you will also find the download. Download & Setup Instruction