multicolor

Thank you. This works like magic. This is why I never wish to use other people's computers.

Hi,
 
Glad this is still of use to you, almost 5 years later! Yup, as far as I can see from here that was the intended behavior.
I just made another version which forces the tab to open in an already open Finder window even if Finder is not focused, which I guess is what you wanted? Get it here. Keyword "ioio".
 

So I had some time and made a workflow for what you describe. Probably not the most elegant solution, but I'm not a programmer, just an engineer that likes to tinker. Even more so since Alfred is so tinkerable..
 
Get the workflow here. Default keyword is "opop". Graphic from here. 
 
Enjoy!

Contexts isn't doing the same thing. It's telling the OS to focus a window. Alfred is telling the OS to open a file.
 
Exactly the same thing happens if you open an Excel file from Finder and exactly the same thing would happen if you could open a file via Contexts because the problem is with the way Excel handles open-file commands.
 
Alfred (and every other application that opens files) aren't going to add window-management logic just to work around a bug in Excel.

@multicolor 0.1.6 provides a inline message function that after you input olknew {mail address}, there's one more option 'Send a Direct Quick Message' which guide you to next step that input message content and send it without activating Outlook window.
https://github.com/xeric/alfred-outlook/releases/tag/0.1.6

thanks! Actually it already exists, it is parameter called append_to_playlist_when_adding_track, see details in Article
 

alfred-spotify-mini-player.com

Find all information on dedicated website: alfred-spotify-mini-player.com
Follow on Twitter @TheMiniPlayer to get all news

Features



Example


 
 
PS: If you have a problem with the workflow, do not spend time reading the forum post, the workflow has been rewritten many times! Follow instructions from here http://alfred-spotify-mini-player.com/articles/support/ instead

I create a workflow for searching mail from Outlook for Mac V16 (A.K.A. 2016).
Now it support searching Mail sender, Subject and Preview Content with below format:
olk [keyword] And also you can search with multiple keywords:
olk [keyword1] [keyword2] [keyword3] To limit search scope in one attribute:
olk from:[keyword] olk title:[keywords1] [keywords2] ...
 
By default, this workflow searches mail from all folders and with default page size 20, for results more than 20, you can click last item 'Next 20 Results...' to go to next page.
You can also configure the search:
olkc pagesize [number] for change search result in one result list.
olkc folder then you can get a list of all your Outlook folders, choose one to limit search scope.
 
 
Project hosted in Github:
https://github.com/xeric/alfred-outlook
Download latest release workflow file from:
https://github.com/xeric/alfred-outlook/releases
 
Welcome your feedbacks!

Here's a different take: I'd sometimes like to open files or folders in a new tab (my default setting for finder), other times in a new WINDOW. Is there a way to create a command for the latter specifically WHEN the finder default is set to tabs only? tx

It’s not that I wouldn’t, it’s that I can’t. There’s no way to append to an already running playlist from the command line. You can get a similar effect by having them play sequentially (in the “Play video” node, on the last line, replace open -na with open -nWa), but that will only start the new file when the last one ends. That means that if you add a bunch of them in a row and then change your mind, there’s no way to edit it.

More importantly, this would work fine for mpv users because the player exits when playback ends, but that isn’t the case with IINA (no idea about VLC), at least by default, meaning you’d have to purposefully close the player when the video ends.

Thank you!
 
 
And thank you as well for giving reproducible steps — it made it way easier to identify the issue. It also happens with mpv; it seems the app instance gets the information (as you said, it activates), but if it was already open, it doesn’t take over, presumably to not take you out of whatever is currently playing.
 
Not a big deal. I’ve updated the Workflow to now always open a new app instance. Already released at the same URL.

This workflow allows you to do inline Google searches right from the Alfred bar. You can either open the result URL or copy it to clipboard. Please go to GitHub for documentation. 
 
GitHub: https://github.com/aviaryan/alfred-google-search
Download: https://github.com/aviaryan/alfred-google-search/raw/master/Google Search.alfredworkflow
 
Screenshots



 
 
 

So I had some time and made a workflow for what you describe. Probably not the most elegant solution, but I'm not a programmer, just an engineer that likes to tinker. Even more so since Alfred is so tinkerable..
 
Get the workflow here. Default keyword is "opop". Graphic from here. 
 
Enjoy!

So I had some time and made a workflow for what you describe. Probably not the most elegant solution, but I'm not a programmer, just an engineer that likes to tinker. Even more so since Alfred is so tinkerable..
 
Get the workflow here. Default keyword is "opop". Graphic from here. 
 
Enjoy!

Seems to work perfectly for me.  Thank You multicolor!

Unfortunately, this seems to have been broken once again, at least fuzzy matching for file actions does not work for me on Alfred 2.8/OS X 10.11.

Quick update, for the next pre-release, I've moved the Open With... to use Alfred's file cache instead of straight metadata queries which means it's not only faster but also respects your fuzzy settings. I should have a new build for you tomorrow or so!

Great, thank you cands and Andrew. Would be awesome if just about every part of Alfred supported fuzzy matching! Such as when choosing File Actions: 'ow' -> Open with.. 
 
 
Cheers,
M