sepulchra

1 hour ago, vitor said:

 

Yes. The Script Filter has to output a UID as well, which Alfred then uses to identify as unique results and learn from.

@Praxder would you consider adding this to your already extremely useful workflow?

Is there a way for Alfred to learn the results you choose most often, much in the way it works with list filters?

Thanks so much for that change! I’m someone with a clackity keyboard that doesn’t send an fn keycode.

thanks. this is is great info to have.

Okay this is madness, I've been using this app since it came out and I just discovered '?hotkeys' to search my hotkeys ....... 🤯💥🤯!!!!!!

@OutlawAndy this is a really sharp use of alfred's built in objects. I'm curious under your clipboard advanced history preferences do you keep "Move items to top of clipboard history when used"?  I'm wondering if that is left on if it may have an impact on your workflow.

this is a good one!!!!

So glad this is working for you @mlondon. Go create folders and move files with reckless abandon!!

@Stephen_C is a real gem.

It works great.

16 hours ago, mlondon said:

 

I'm not a coder, so limited ability to modify scripts etc, but grateful for whatever solutions you may come up with.

 

 

Neither are we really. I like puzzles though and your suggestion is a really good one. I've been incredibly impressed with the addition of automation tasks and they are really quite powerful once you get working with them. I suspect @Stephen_C will have this locked down for you by tomorrow. I'm already using what he made with some tweaks today.

@Stephen_C that works well! And you could go a step further and replace your list filter with a file filter, set your file type to folders, and set the scope to whatever you want and you wouldn't be restricted to 3 folders.

24 minutes ago, Stephen_C said:

When getting the basepath you need to use the Automation Task Get Path Dirname to strip the filename(s) from the passed in path.

 

Stephen

hmmm that is interesting. the file names shouldn't be part of the base path if they are already in the buffer. I'm not seeing that on this end.

That makes sense. Would you mind trying the workflow i sent one more time. It requires the files you want to move are already in the buffer.

so it is navigate to files via alfred  and '⌥+↑' them into the buffer

search for the folder you want your new folder in, then run the universal action....

That is why it isn't ideal. That is why as much I wish there was a way to accomplish this task with only automation objects, i don't think there is. 

This doesn't work for the use case when triggered because when I trigger it, it immediately asks for the path of the base path. You can't search for the base path using the alfred's file navigation. You can only type the path out? is that how it works for you? 

EDIT: now I see you created a default path for the base path. I think the use case here is being able to navigate to any folder in alfred's file navigation and create a new folder.

i managed to get it to work by doing the following, which i hope provides inspiration for a more elegant way to do this..... as this relies on the file buffer

• navigate to file or files via alfred's file navigation and add them to the buffer
• navigate to folder where you would like to make your new folder
• use the following action on that folder (it is a combination of your work @Stephen_C and @Floating.Point. 

https://transfer.sh/A7R5aS/new folder and buffer move.alfredworkflow

there has to be a better way. 🐇🕳️

I think the issue here is staying within alfred's file navigation. That is why my mind went to using the file buffer object  but regardless there is the step of storing the files that need to be moved, searching for a path, creating a new folder in that path, and the having the file(s) moved there. I could see it quite useful for users who prefer using alfred's file navigation over finder. I just couldn't sort it last night.

I'm pretty sure it is the latter. Create a folder while using alfred's file navigation and then have a file moved there. 

@Stephen_C do you have any idea of how to accomplish this with automation tasks? I was puzzling over it last night.

1 hour ago, mlondon said:

 

Thank you. I made the change, but still get the same error. I did try disabling and re-enabling the Workflow, and even quitting and restarting Alfred, but that didnt help

just so i understand, you want to take action on a file or files and then move them to a new folder you create within alfred? is that accurate?

@mlondon you may also want to explore these threads. These are two use cases that use automation objects

Do you ever take a day off?

• github repo https://github.com/sepulchra/alfred-mail-link
• no dependencies 
• i am the author of the workflow but credit macstories and daringfireball for the origins and iterations of the applescript in the readme
• uses configuration builder for the keyword

will do!

You should be able to create a file filter. Just drag in one of your .org files into the file types list, set a keyword and you should be good to go. You can also further narrow your scope if want to designate a specific folder if that is where your .org files reside. Here are some screenshots of a workflow i use to search taskpaper files. You can also read more about file filters here.

I'm trying to build a workflow that is triggered but either a keyword or a snippet trigger. I'm using the workflow configuration for the keyword variable which i was hoping to use for the snippet trigger as well. The keyword object works great but not the snippet (same keyword). Is it not possible to use workflow configuration (now "configuration builder") variables in snippet objects?

I'm on 13.3 and Alfred prerelease 5.1 build 2131.

Thanks!

You are on a tear!