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Dan-Mulligan

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  1. Am I understanding this correctly? Or barking up the wrong tree... The bottom one is configured to search via "kMDItemTextContent" "The value can be (query), (var:varname) or constant strings. The constructed query is grouped by value type, for example: (query OR query) AND (var AND var) AND (const AND const)" (I don't understand what this means... Should I create a {const} parameter to find a string...?) Am I mistaken in thinking this Workflow should be able to search for a specific string of text within a library of PDFs and present the result that matches the string...? For example, I've decided I want to find this random paragraph contained within a PDF: "In the silence of the early morning, I’m in my office, preparing for the day’s trading." So in theory I was hoping the Workflow would return the result, Best Loser Wins, since that's the PDF where this sentence was taken from. But obviously no such luck (I'm misguided or I haven't configured it correctly...) When I paste the quote into the Workflow, it can't find any PDF containing the phrase and so just returns these default search options: Can you shed some light... Ideally I'm trying to see if it's possible for me to link from ANKI (Flashcard / Memory Aid) to specific quotes within PDFs via Alfred... If anyone knows how I might go about it, I'd be very grateful. (Is it possible to hyperlink to anchors within a PDF...? Which admittedly is another topic altogether...!) Much obliged, Dan
  2. Thank you very much @Vero. I didn't know I could preview by pressing Shift... i knew I was probably missing something basic. The other advice for Folder Searches I will dedicate some time to exploring further. Much obliged! 😀 Dan
  3. Could someone please advise (as it may already be possible and I've overlooked it)... I'm searching my SSD for a keyword... and Alfred brings up a list of files that include the keyword. I want to open be able to open, view and explore each file within a Finder folder. Why, because I don't know exactly what I'm looking for...! So for example, I know I want to search 'allica' but beyond that I don't know which pdf has the information I'm looking for. So I'd like to go through each one in Preview one by one. But when I open the first file, that concludes the Alfred search and I'll have to start again. I thought if I pressed the Right Arrow key it would give me an option to view all files, but no... Am I missing something...? Many thanks in advance for your advise / suggestion
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