Samādhi

(Oh...except I did not want Alfred to "show latest query if within 5 minutes". So I unchecked that again and now it's working exactly as I wanted. Thanks!)

Understood. Many thanks.

Oooh. Well that's even better than Alfred doing what I thought Andrew and Vero were saying it did. This way I can enter my preferred format of 123.456.7890, Contacts can change it to (123) 456-7890, and I can see it the way I want it to appear in Alfred. I just have to remember how all this works so I'll remember to bother to include the periods when I enter phone numbers. Thank you, deanishe. And Vero, for the note on actioning numbers. Great stuff.

Perfect - thank you very much, Vero. That's what I needed. 🙏

With all due respect, that is not my experience at all. And I know this is an old thread, but Alfred is still, now, eight years after my original post, presenting all phone numbers to me without any kind of formatting while all of those same phone numbers are correctly formatted in the Contacts app. Maybe things are different when running the U.S. version of macOS as against the U.K. version?

Hi all. Before I wound up having to wipe and restore my drive (yeah...), I used to be able to recall previous results in Alfred with a key combination - it was some modifier key and either the up- or down-arrow. For example, if I'd do a calculation in Alfred and then go on about my business, and then later want to see or use the result of that calculation again, I could invoke Alfred and use that keystroke and I'd be shown the result of that calculation I'd done previously. But now I can't figure out what keystroke I used (none of them seem to have the desired effect) and I don't know what this function might be called or where to even begin to look for it in Alfred's kind of paralyzingly extensive preferences. Does anybody recognize what I'm talking about and know where in the prefs I can configure it? Many thanks.

same problem...though i'm not sure i've seen a correctly-formatted phone number in Alfred in quite some time. i've tried Vero's suggestion of editing the contact; that hasn't helped in my case. a fix would be appreciated. phone numbers are much harder to decipher without formatting. i'm running the latest version of Alfred, with the Powerpack (family license), under OS X v.10.8.5. thanks, Ian

alas, my experience is not consistent with yours; changing a contact's information - like deleting and re-entering the phone number - has no effect on this problem for me. (i'm also using the app no longer called Address Book, but now called Contacts, under OS X v.10.8.5.) is there something i need to do so the data will be "fed through" to Alfred anew, and not read from some cache somewhere? thanks... Ian