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Ah, ok, got it. I might give it a shot as well. Thanks for the clarification!

Thanks! I was a little concerned because iCloud drive seems to still be available at work, but the Alfred app warned against using iCloud drive for some reason...

The company I work for was recently taken over by another company, for whom things are more restricted, thus it doesn't seem that I can use Dropbox for syncing alfred prefs anymore. I'm setting things up using a private gitlab account, but wanted to see if there are any gotchas with regards to syncing preferences using a git repo. (other than having to push/pull any changes)

As of recently I've had to do a LOT of location switching, from my desk to elsewhere without my keyboard. I have my keyboard configured to use spit out F19 from caps lock (for alfred) when at my desk, but I have to manually switch to something like ctrl-space when I take my laptop away from my desk. I used to use another app for setting F19 for capslock on my macbook, but started running into issues with it so I don't use it anymore. Is there an applescript API for setting the alfred hotkey?

I recently switched to a different (65%) keyboard and am in the process of updating some of my key commands. I am doing this in Moom, and I think some of the new attempted key commands are being used in Alfred for some other workflows. Is there any way to output the list of key commands that are being used in workflows?

Actually... it might be nice to have a checkbox in the object config to "Use title in object note" -- I would likely just use that most of the time.

Ah, perfect. I thought I had seen something like this but couldn't figure it out... was looking in the wrong places. Exactly what I was looking for. 🙂

Is there already a means for labelling items in workflows or designating areas in workflow layouts? I use the same keywords for several workflows so that I can easily remember the workflow keyword and then pick the one I want, but when I go to my workflow it is very difficult to determine which one is which since all that shows is the keyword in the keyword input item. I've included a screenshot of the kind of thing I'm looking for... let me know if this already exists, if not, it would be nice 😁

Yup, I think that is the one I picked up -- the github page for the other one redirected to that one. Thanks!

Ah, nice one!... now I just want to edit it so that it opens from the browser from which it extracted the bookmark instead of the default browser. (I use Chrome for work stuff and Brave for personal... 😉

Yeh, sure, no problem. I was just asking to see if there was something I wasn't thinking of. I have the Applescript that performs what I want it to do, so I can either a) Create an app bundle with the script that I launch from Alfred, or b) Set up an Applescript bundle/app that calls an external trigger to alfred that executes what I already have set up. In either case, I can use "Launch [app name here" from Siri and that should do the trick. Using the latter option above, I can keep everything still in Alfred and just write a stub app that simply performs the external trigger. At the end of the day "External trigger" was kind of the key I was looking for.

Right, looks like you can set a custom dictation command, which can trigger an Automator workflow (such as applescript). Will have to look into this option further, but I'm not sure how this works with something like AirPods. AirPods has the double tap to invoke Siri feature, which is why I was considering that route. Also, in order for this to work, you have to enable the always on microphone listening part of Dictation, which I'd rather avoid. Thanks for the tip though, that is a decent starting place!

I know this is probably backward from what some people want, and antithetical to parts of the premise of Alfred but hear me out! :-) My wife bought me AirPods which turns out are pretty cool. I paired them with my Mac yesterday while working at home, and realized that one thing that I would really like would be to be able to trigger Alfred using Siri. Why, you ask? Well, I had wandered off from my computer with the AirPods still in my ears, but had left Google Play Music running in Chrome. I have an Alfred trigger (CMD `) that calls an applescript that finds Google Play in a Chrome tab and toggles the pause/play. I would love to be able to tell Siri to "tell Alfred to press Command `" or "tell Alfred to pause Google Play" or "tell Alfred to invoke [keyword trigger here]" or something like that. Is this something that is already doable and I've just missed it?

Even just showing the Title field somehow on that keyword trigger block would help (although, there isn't really room to do this currently...)

Ahh... I didn't know that was there. That is a nice feature! However, this doesn't get at the stickier problem, wherein I have multiple flows inside a workflow that all use the same keyword trigger. While viewing the workflow, there are just a bunch of blocks with the same keyword and no info to differentiate which ones do what without double clicking to edit them. I *could* reorganize these potentially into one flow that uses a script filter, but that would be a considerable task at this point...

So, I may be an outlier, but I use Alfred so much that I have a bit of trouble finding things that I have created in my workflows. For example, to ease my pain, I created 3 different workflows for work that contain keyword triggered flows with 3 different general types (I have 1 for administrative type stuff, 1 dedicated to all my scripts for opening special terminal windows, etc.). However, even now, when I open these workflows, scrolling through to find the function/flow that I want to edit or clean up is kind of a pain, especially since many of my flows have the same keyword trigger, so they look the same until I open them up to edit. A couple of things that might be super handy: 1. Enable a search *within* workflows to search for all flows with a particular keyword trigger 2. Enable a search within all workflows for keyword triggers 3. Enable a search for either all workflows or within a workflow for keywords contained within written scripts (this would be great for searching for reusable code blocks, or could be used to search for blocks of code with specified commented code keywords... thanks for listening, and if you want to discuss ideas, feel free to reach out!

Great idea and good execution. However, for Chrome, you can also install Media Keys by Sway.fm which work pretty well for play/pause, next, and previous. Your workflow has like and dislike though, which is cool -- I'd like to see more functionality like that! (i.e. maybe share, add/remove from library, etc.)

I find myself often making quick additions to a couple of workflows that I use at work, but they often are used to trigger actions that require no argument, which is the 3rd item in the argument dropdown menu. I often forget to select "No argument" and have to go back and change it after I create the new flow. This is partially just due to haste on my part, but it would be nice to have the last selected item be sticky in that dropdown, so if I choose "No argument", that is the selection that shows the next time. I know the intent here is that users *want* to use the input feature, and I often do as well, but saving the selection might be helpful for tailoring the UI a bit toward how different people use Alfred. I considered that maybe this would be a nice item in preferences, but I'm not sure it is worthy of the screen real estate in settings...