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@vitor I just came across this via Brett Terpstra’s blog and I wonder if this might be of interest to you and automation tasks: https://github.com/freedmand/textra. All of this is way over my head but it seems like they are leveraging apple’s API. I know you already extract text from a PDFs in automation tasks but I’m most curious about extracting text from audio files — especially if it is leveraging one of Apple’s APIs and works well. 

It is there just under Screen Mode, so in photoshop's case it would be 

View

Screen Mode

Full Screen Mode

or one of the other options in that submenu

Not sure about an applscript but you can also do the same thing Andy is suggesting but after your Launch Apps object you can connect the `Click Menubar Item in Front App` object and then add:

View
Enter Full Screen

That should also work/

I think it might be the setting under Features->File Search->Advanced -- There is a Copy Path setting you can uncheck "Escape path on 'Copy Clipboard' action. I think that might do the trick.

This great. I've built something similar and also have been futzing with a tot replacement that essentially triggers a filefilter that has five different scratch pad documents where the the write to text action appends plain text. Been looking at your tot workflow as a bit of a model.

Thanks. Will keep you in the loop.

of course now I can't get it to crash!!!

hey @Andrew,

Unfortunately, I have a new crash to report with the latest beta. These are the steps to that led up to the crash:

- alfred prefences open
- edited my email drafts worflow to increase font size in text view
- triggered workflow with hotkey
- typed some text into text view 
- hit ⌘ + 0 to increase window size
- I either hit undo or escape (pretty sure it was escape) and Uncle Alfred crashed.

Crash report heading to the info inbox.

Will do.... do you all ever sleep? 

Of course -- Crash reports sent @Andrew

I've experienced a few unexpected crashes of alfred today -- they seem to occur when triggering alfred with my hotkey (in my case it is control+space) and the only other consistent thing I can remember is the the alfred preference window was open in on both occasions.

I'm on a M1 Mac Studio and OS 13.6.4.

I can also send crash reports as well.

25 minutes ago, vitor said:

 

Not the first time you’ve made an analogy from music. I like that, digging the sound. I was familiar with some of his other songs but not that one.

 

Sound/hearing is my favorite of all the senses and the focus of most of my work. If you'd like to learn about Harry Nilsson, there was a solid documentary made about him in the early 2000s. He had a pretty remarkable career and life, which sadly was cut too short by some of his personal choices.

25 minutes ago, vitor said:

 

Huh, interesting idea too! I can see that being useful in other cases. Just released 2024.1 which adds an External Trigger.

It is amazing how fast you turn these updates around.

one other thing i just tried..... you could add an external trigger to Vitor's Window Switcher Worklfow and then call that workflow after copy to clipboard and pick the open app/window you want to paste into.

I still want to hear other thoughts but just realized that you don't need to have a text file -- you can set text view to "object input" and connect it to Copy to Clipboard. You can put the lime in the coconut without requiring Harry Nilsson!

I’m experimenting with making a little email scratch pad I can trigger with a hotkey and use the new text view object. I’ve been using Tot.app for this purpose, but wanted to try and replicate that workflow with the new text view object.

My current Tot workflow does the following:

- copies a specific tot.app dot (document) I write my email drafts in to the clipboard.
- deletes the contents of the dot (document) so when i write a new draft it is blank.
- opens the mail app so I can paste the text the body of my already open email message.

I’ve rebuilt this with textview the following way:

- I’ve created a txt file called email draft.txt
- hotkey opens textview to that path, saves to file’s contents (set to overwrite)
- copies file contents to clipboard and then open’s the mail app.

This seems to work well, but I’m curious if there is a better/different way. I’m always curious to learn something new. Pasting the flow below.

@Vero -- it seems a bit silly asking this since it is just "status" but this is more for your process. I did receive 2 emails from Paddle: a receipt, download instructions but neither contains a new license. Should have I received one?

+1 for this.

yes. I didn't think to right click. In most apps one can trigger check document now with ⌘+;

Is there a way to trigger those spelling features with the typical keyboard shortcuts?

I'm guessing this might be a tall order, but it would be great when editing a file via the new text view object if it could leverage's apple's spell check functionality. I often use Tot.app or another text editor to write email drafts and adding this functionality would be incredibly useful get me to not open those other apps for this purpose.

Wow everyone, this release is hugely impressive. This must have been a tremendous amount of work. Apologies @vitor for jumping the gun on the View Notes workflow thread. So grateful to have all this hard work at my fingertips day in and day out. It is hard to believe you aren't a team of 10 people.

I do have a very important question though. How legendary does our support need to be to get an Alfred Bowler in the mail so we can look like John Bonham in the 70s?

whoa, that was fast!!!

hmmmm. wondering if Vitor is going to leverage this new text view object in this note taker workflow.............

Thanks so much!

Vitor, I just downloaded this workflow to try it out and when i start searching with keyword it fallsback to a fallback search. Here are the results from the debugger. Any suggestions?

[18:24:38.226] Logging Started...
[18:24:44.795] Critic Ratings[Script Filter] Queuing argument 'god'
[18:24:45.418] Critic Ratings[Script Filter] Script with argv 'god' finished
[18:24:45.426] ERROR: Critic Ratings[Script Filter] Code 1: /Volumes/dbox v3/Dropbox (Personal)/Alfred/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.432D5BBB-223F-483F-A5F1-C3AE638EA763/metacritic: execution error: Error: TypeError: undefined is not an object (evaluating 'apiSearch(searchQuery)["components"][0]') (-2700)

Hey this is great to see and examine. Thank you!