Chris Messina

Hmm well spotted, I'll tweak that for the next release.

I make many keyword-based Workflows and I would find it incredibly efficient to be able to quickly duplicate an object using ⌘-D.
 
Currently I can hit ⌘-C and then ⌘-P (copy and paste), or right-click and choose copy and then right-click and paste:
 

 
...but many apps (like Sketch) support ⌘-D to duplicate the selected object or objects:
 

 
This would greatly improve my efficiency. 

So, I actually downloaded and installed the Open with Atom workflow, so I just tap that button and then execute a keyboard shortcut to achieve the intended outcome, but it seems like this would be a useful adjustment to Alfred that would benefit everyone. 
 
Of course there are many ways to achieve the same thing; just seems it would be a really nice touch to configure the openers for tapping on that button.

Fair enough! Noob mistake? 
 
How about this one? 
 

 

Installing this on my home machine, pip & Pillow installed without issue.
 
But still no rounded corners?
 
So, I did some debugging and it seems that often (always?) the icon is downloaded as a JPG.
 
The rounded corner operation works fine, but the image is saved back as a JPG.
 
quick fix in acpython.py
 
this:
output.save(qr) becomes:
output.save(qr + '.png') to create a copy of the icon as a png with rounded corners

A simple Fix for Alfred 4.0.
Right click the workflow, select "open in Finder".
Open file acshell.sh.
 
Then Change all the
tell application "Alfred 2" to
tell application "Alfred 4" Done!

To fix this, you can add this after line11 of file acshell.sh
LIST+=$(find /System/Applications -maxdepth 2 | egrep -i "\.app$" | grep -i "$QUERY") Then it works for most of system apps.
 
But Catalyst Apps, like Podcast.app,  still doesn't work. As their internal structures(Info.plist and icns files) are different from the AppKit apps.
I don't know how to fix this.

I've created a new Bear Alfred workflow here:
https://github.com/drgrib/alfred-bear

It is faster compared to the current Bear Alfred workflow because it is written in Go instead of Python and has optimized SQL queries. It also adds tag searching and autocompletion, link pasting, and clipboard content to note on creation. I do appreciate the author of the original Bear Alfred workflow because I started mine from his design.

Maybe I've just been filing a lot of bugs lately, but it would be handy if I could create auto-expansion snippets for well-known and environmental variables, in particular my OS version, i.e. "macOS 10.15.6".

Would be nice to have one official place to download, update and potentially purchase new workflows & themes. I would happily pay developers for their workflows if it really improved my productivity. I imagine you could build the Alfred Store right into the preferences panel. I know there's Packal but it doesn't update your Workflow unless you downloaded it from Packal which can be confusing. Plus there's no way to support the developer. 

Hi,
 
currently using the macOS Big Sur Beta and was styling Alfred for the upcoming makeover of the macOS UI. I prefer a look as close to the system UI as possible.
 
Light: https://www.alfredapp.com/extras/theme/eHfgpMFvON/
Dark Mode: https://www.alfredapp.com/extras/theme/NWnuAKel02/
 
A little unfortunate, that there is no option to round the corners on the selection background elements, they appear very pointy in the new environment of even more rounded corners in macOS Big Sur.
 

 

 
 
Hope you enjoy!  

Day--mhn... !
 
Alfred 4.1 Pre-release
Build 1163, Monday 22nd June 2020
Workflow Changes
• Workflow editor rendering tweaks to significantly improve the UI performance with very large and complex workflows
• Updated Workflow Objects
• Hotkey Trigger
• The same hotkey combination can now be shared across multiple triggers matching different conditions
• Added navigation to related hotkeys on the contextual popup menu for a hotkey trigger in the workflow editor
• Prioritisation of shared hotkey to run, with the following priority:
• In Focus match takes highest priority, e.g. Hotkey only when Safari in focus
• Not in Focus takes secondary priority, e.g. Hotkey only when Spotify not in focus
• Falls back to hotkey with no app specific focus configured
• Hints shown in orange if a shared hotkey combination is in use
• Hotkey Trigger object key combo background changes
• Subtext under the hotkey field updates with warning
• Show subtle grey background behind application icons on Hotkey Object in workflow editor where hotkey focus mode is set to "don't have focus" 
• Copy and Paste of object (or object configuration) now also retains the hotkey combo
• Note that this will naturally create a conflict which you will have to manually resolve
• Script Filter Input
• Fix Run Behaviour sheet "Reset to Defaults" button to also reset the "Argument" section
• Copy to Clipboard Output
• Fixed to now correctly use clipboardtextrtf property from passed-in JSON config
• Reorganise internal logic to enable plain text clipboard output to be derived from passed-in RTF from JSON config
• Only save either clipboardtext or clipboardtextrtf into the configuration
• Fixes automatic {cursor} positioning with mismatching rtf / plain text
• Arg / Var Utility
• Fix the Arg/Var Utility to correctly pass through array of strings if argument is set to {query}, e.g. a list of files
• New Workflow Objects
• File Buffer Action
• Added new workflow action to interact with Alfred's File Buffer
• Action in Alfred Action
• Added new workflow action to show Alfred's actions panel for the passed in file
• File Utility
• Tests if file exists and outputs on one of two outputs accordingly
• Option to also output the UTI for the file as a variable
• This could be useful for subsequent branching using a Conditional
• New Workflow Object Inbound Configuration
• Access using the "Inbound Configuration..." popup menu for the selected object
• External trigger identifiers can now be directly set on external objects
• Conflicts are now checked between the External Trigger object, and any external identifiers set
• You now have control over how a downstream input object presents its results between Direct and Keyword modes
• Direct mode is the previous behaviour, where the input icon is placed to the right hand side and you see no keyword
• Keyword mode places the input into Alfred's default results and sets it as unique (same as pressing return on a placeholder)
• Workflow objects represent the presence of an external identifier with small hint on object input in Workflow editor
• Double click the hint for faster subsequent access to the inbound configuration
• The icon for both External Trigger and Call External have been tweaked to match the new hint
• Fix internal variable types in workflow editor framework
• Added "Filter Workflows by..." on the popup menu for workflow objects in the canvas for hotkeys and keywords
• Makes it easier to find workflows with similar hotkeys and keywords
• Standardise how an array of arguments is shown in the workflow debugger
• Improve various subtexts throughout the workflow object configuration sheets
Snippets and Clipboard
• Snippets can now embed other snippets using the {snippets:} placeholder
• Placeholder works in all expected places, for example, the Copy to Clipboard workflow output object
• Note that nesting is only one level deep
• Added a "Copy Placeholder" on the popup menu for a selected snippet to copy the relevant {snippet:} placeholder
• Improve text placeholder framework
• Improved processing efficiency by deriving plain text content from already-processed rich text content where applicable
• more consistent behaviour between clipboard objects
• Fixes issue where the snip keyword wasn't correctly processing rich text placeholders
• Fix Snippet keyword to correctly respect the "Auto-paste on Return" option
• Option to ignore org.nspasteboard.AutoGeneratedType in the Clipboard History Advanced preferences, enabled by default
Contacts
• Multiple Contact Actions can now be configured with modifier keys
• Contact Actions editor sheet now correctly shows "Add" or "Save" button instead of just "Add"
• Set the Add / Save button shortcut to be ⌘S
• Action text at bottom of Contact Viewer now updates on mod key change to provide action hint
• Improve the "type to search" in the Contacts Viewer
• You can now press up and down to select the previous or next match for the typed filter
1Password
• Added alternative ⌘↩︎ action to open the selected 1Password bookmark in 1Password instead of Open and Fill
Troubleshooting
• Start process of adding interactive troubleshooting built into Alfred's Help preferences to aid fixing common issues
• Also add help links to key troubleshooting help pages
• Troubleshooting is written to a Report file, for easy emailing and subsequent support
• File Search
• Run a number of diagnostic checks on a dragged in file to work out why it isn't being found
General fixes and improvements
• Fix Alfred using (and consuming) up/down key events when IME panel is showing (e.g. Pinyin selection panel)
• Note that this fix is more of a "workaround" to a lack of Public API to officially support this
• Recognise full width space U+3000 as an activator for Alfred's quick file search mode
• Show Base32 decoded data wherever dyn.a UTI types are seen, to give better idea of content
• Fix making selected result unique in Alfred's default results if input is configured to be "no space"
• Alfred was immediately disassociating the unique result due to incorrect logic
• Fix Music feature description text in Catalina to correctly say Music.app instead of iTunes
• Fix Dark / Light mode appearance of descriptive text in macOS Rebuild Metadata sheet
• Make the snip keyword's subtext more succinct for Copy or Paste text, showing more of the snippet content
• Fully resolve [local] symlinks and aliases when using Quick Look, to see the file contents instead of the file icon
• Fix twitter web search icon colour
• File Buffer Improvements
• Show "x+ items" to top left of Buffer when the number of visible items exceeds the available visible space
• Correctly re-draw the buffer when additional items are added and removed beyond the visible window width
• Add a - button to delete selected custom web searches in the Web Search preferences
• Show version number for Application bundles in preview panels (e.g. file system navigation, action panel)
• Improve VoiceOver accessibility for hotkey fields, now correctly reads newly inputted hotkey

A few moments ago, we popped Alfred 4.1 on the pre-release channel. It's a big release with lots of tasty stuff for you to sink your teeth into.
 
New workflow objects for integrating with files and the File Buffer Shared Hotkeys for workflows Embedded Snippets Contact Actions Built-in File Search Troubleshooting from the Help preferences And loads more!  
Take a look at the Update tab for a complete change log, as there's a lot in this release, which is free to all Alfred 4 Powerpack license holders. 
 
We'd love to get your help in testing out the new features before the general release! To get started, launch Alfred's preferences to the Update tab, choose the "pre-releases" option and grab the latest build
 
Cheers,
Vero

Pssst, just to let you know, Alfred 4.1 will be getting a {snippet:} placeholder to nest a snippet 

@chris If you create a workflow, you can configure a Hotkey Trigger to take the currently selected text in macOS, then you can connect this into a "Copy to Clipboard" object set to automatically paste. Put your snippet content in that second object, and use {query} for the scooped in selected text.

This might be more of a request for a workflow, but it would be pretty cool if Alfred offered support for Google Assistant via the SDK, like MacAssistant. I'd like to be able to interact with Siri or the Google Assistant by activating Alfred and then switching to voice assistant mode...

NightShift
Quickly turn on/off Night Shift or set it to a custom value between 0 - 100.
 
Installation
To download, visit the latest release at GitHub. All further updates are handled automatically.  
Description
Quickly turn on/off Night Shift or set it to a value between 0-100. No more fiddling with deep settings when you either want to save your eyes or need to work with accurate colors!
In Alfred, type night followed by either off, on or a number between 0 - 100.

 
Credits
The workflow makes use of the following:
nshift by leberwurstsaft as the backend for setting the values. OneUpdater by vitorgalvao for handling automatic updates.

I don't know if you're still active on this forum, but if so, I've just released a workflow that can quickly turn off/on Night Shift: 
 

@Palma511 The {snippet:} placeholder is coming in 4.1  

I made some changes to @wrjlewis Workflow:
* Added title search - use "nt"
* Works with Notion Desktop instead of Notion web
* Cosmetic changes in search results

Download the workflow here if interested: https://github.com/johnathanz/notion-search-alfred-workflow

I find this discussion still very relevant and would also like to request its implementation.
@chris clearly explains its use (and qualitative difference in implementation from the other thread mentioned).

When the Alfred launcher is activated, that search window gains focus and should be able to present TouchBar buttons.
These could easily just be a list of buttons matching Alfred's list suggestions (in title and icon), and their action corresponding to activating those suggestions (like the hotkeys Command+2, Command+3, etc. but saving a keystroke).
The idea is not overly complicated, the implementation would not necessarily be either and it would nicely integrated with the MacBook's ability.
Alfred is after all about using your computer to the fullest potential, adding where the OS has not; this seems a perfect opportunity.

I hope other users and developers also provide their vision on this feature here!

@chris Ah, I'd completely overlooked this. I'll get this fixed in the next release
 
Cheers,
Andrew

I’ve updated the title of the older thread since in reality a lot of the discussion is about the kind of things @chris suggests, at the app rather than workflow level.

I made two themes based on my email client, Superhuman. Since Superhuman uses Operator Mono Book as its typeface, I decided to use the open source Fira Code font to achieve a similar look. 
 
Get the themes here
 
Here are two previews:
 

@woowoo the minimum size is 400 as smaller than this is unusable with some of the sub views. Is there a specific reason you need less than 400px?