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I believe you need to do this in the preferences. Go to the default results sections and if you look at the very bottom of the page you will see a button that says "Setup fallback results"  and you should be able to change it there.

I had no idea "Click Menubar" was in automation tasks until last week. It is really a useful one!

I think you should be able to do this two ways without any scripting @addEdgeBookmarkSearch

1. Automation Task called "Click Menubar Item in Frontmost App."

2. Dispatch Key Combo object for each shortcut

Thanks so much. This has been super helpful.

Thanks @vitor. That is much much cleaner and instructive. I didn't put it on github as I didn't know if it would be of value beyond being an example to the wider community. In essence everytime i start a new project with its own set of folders, I would replicate this and created the specific folder paths etc. Look how much cleaner this looks:

I never have used the split argument object and it works as I have configured it, but is this how it "should" be?

My work often has me creating lots of repetitive folder trees for projects and they tend to be cyclical, so I usually make a template and keep making the same project folder trees for months. Over the years I’ve attempted making these in a variety of ways. This started with Automator and then getting help to implement in alfred back in 2018.  I then also saw this recent workflow shared, and I remembered I had created something similar by just using automation tasks and no external dependencies.

I owe most of this workflow’s setup to some of that early experimentation and @Stephen_C's experimentation on his folder workflows.

I’d figured I would share and see if would be useful to others and if there might be some helpful tweaks I could make. I’m not so sold on the icon yet. Also @vitor I would love for you to weigh in as you also seem to find useful tweak or efficiency. Here is the tree: https://transfer.sh/62F5tkcvDU/Folder Tree TEMPLATE.alfredworkflow

I do wonder if this has any practical purpose beyond being an example? In it's current form, users could use it as a template but would need to set the argument to their custom folder paths.

Thanks!

Well that is a nifty trick!

or if you are looking to transform something already in your clipboard list you can make the workflows as universal actions like I have in my previous post and take action on what you want directly from your clipboard history. Does that solve your use case?

17 minutes ago, olfway said:

Thanks for your suggestions!

If I understand correctly then I have two options with workflows – run workflow for copy to clipboard or run workflow to paste, right?

 

If I would run workflow to paste then I'll miss alfred's clipboard history viewer, so that's not an option

 

So it seems the only way I can use it – create a workflow to get current selection, strip whitespaces from it and paste it to clipboard and assign it to cmd+c hotkey

But there will be a problems here – sometimes I want to copy images or files and sometimes I copy via menu instead of hotkey and sometimes iTerm itself copies selection to clipboard

 

Probably if Alfred would have a trigger like "text content copied to clipboard" and output like "replace content in clipboard history" then I would be able to make a workflow which would work.

 

But actually I think that whitespace trimming is so basic feature, so it could be added as a feature to alfred's clipboard manager itself

Unless I am misunderstanding something these actions should still be in your clipboard unless you check "mark transient in clipboard" in the "copy to clipboard" object. if you copy or paste in frontmost app they should still stay in your clipboard after you paste. In my screenshot below, my actions for Reverse Line Order and Shell Escape Text both remain in the clipboard after pasting in the front most app.

you should be able to accomplish this with combinations of automation tasks (look under text processing) and the copy to clipboard object.

I'm a huge fan of Tot. this is great. You should submit this to the gallery!

@effectivepull if you find yourself searching for bike files all of the time you could also look into creating  a file filter. I have something similar setup for taskpaper files -- another great piece of software by the same developer of bike.

I just want to add that it does what it intends to do with lightning fast speed and im grateful you are not going to bog it down.

And i also have specific list filters for regularly used folders as well.

@NickSloan-- there may be an alternative method you might consider as well which is a "list filter." I keep common paths and external volumes in a list filter. For example I have a list filter that is triggered by the keywords "drvs"

@vitor I wanted to let you know i used this wonderful workflow to help me back up 20TB from a 5400 spinning disk to a 60TB RAID (also spinning disks) took 30 hours but happened without incident thanks to "Coffee Coffee"

I think this workflow will accomplish what you are looking for: https://alfred.app/workflows/yohasebe/fzf/

but i would also love to know if it is possible in a plain old file filter.

@BootySlayer If you right click on your theme in the left column, you can choose "share on alfredapp.com." It will provide you with a link that you can share here. that is also a great looking theme.

I second that -- this would be a great addition to the gallery!!

thank you

kudos @vitor to you and and the team. this is a really useful addition!

@giovanniwould you mind sharing your theme?

How did I not know this existed!!!

Does this workflow get you close?

@c-c-c-c i'm curious about this now as well but while someone smarter than me weighs in, does alfred's default "tags" search not find your tags?