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Like @andy4222, I'm a big fan of TextBuddy. I would like to be able to select some text, invoke Alfred's Universal Actions, then choose from the menu of available options supported by TextBuddy. More details: like many apps, TextBuddy has its own simply command palette: I've been in touch w/ the developer and we're interested in hooking up Alfred Universal Actions to these actions (e.g. having TextBuddy do the processing, possibly headlessly). @dfay's CaseConverter Workflow offers Text Actions: ...which implies that a TextBuddy Workflow would need to enumerate all of its Text Actions in order for Alfred to list them: — but I'm presuming that there might be a way for TextBuddy to generate a JSON List Filter or something like that would automate and keep-up-to-date that list of commands as they evolve in each app update. My question is really to support Tyler building a deeper integration with Alfred. Are there tips or best practices for app devs to advertise their services to Alfred's UA engine? Thanks!

'elloes! It seems that as of Monterey, if I have the Quick Look window 'focused', pressing my Universal Action selection hotkey activates ⌘C instead. It used to work correctly on Big Sur. Specific steps for the issue I run into: select something in Finder press Space Bar (Quick Look shows up; issue occurs with ⌘Y as well) press the Universal Action selection hotkey → Finder selection gets copied to clipboard (Edit menu highlights, and if it's open – the Copy action highlights) Things I've tried/checked: if while the Quick Look window is open I click on the file in Finder, it works as expected – the file is actioned changing the selection hotkey – doesn't change the wonky behavior, the same issue occurs regardless on what shortcut I've set removing and re-adding Alfred in the permissions preferences (restarted Alfred) – no change close any other apps that might conflict checked the macOS keyboard shortcuts for anything that might conflict, and found nothing I don't have set any keyboard shortcuts in my workflows While searching around on the matter, I've seen it mentioned that Alfred sends ⌘C to get the current selection, which lines up with the bit where the issue occurs regardless of the keyboard shortcut I set for Universal Action selection. Is there anything else I can do to attempt to get to the bottom of this? I can imagine that this is a macOS issue, especially with it appearing after the upgrade, but I would appreciate a confirmation if that's the case. And a workaround would be a wonderful bonus. 😅

Hi everyone, so Alfred’s Universal Actions feature has been out for the last few months. How have y’all been using it? Share your workflows For me: I use it to open save snippet, without having to go into Alfred preferences I use it to perform text operations, like uppercase, lower case, json format, remove special chars, etc. Search things in a non-default browser Open file/folder with specific apps like VS Code etc Copying file paths or opening terminal in specific directory

For example, I want see dimension of picture like 1200x800; it would be better if action panel content can be customized. I hope creator can consider the feat request. @Vero Hope you can consider this request. Most of the time, I want to visualize the dimension of the image.

To be honest, I don't understand how I can use universal action in scriptfilter. I read below documents several times, https://www.alfredapp.com/help/workflows/inputs/script-filter/json/ https://www.alfredapp.com/help/features/universal-actions/ and I understand universal action is how powerful feature. but unfortunately, I don't get how can I use universal action in scriptfilter. I added 'action' to my script, nothing changed. By any chance, Is there a workflow example developed with 'action'? I'd appreciate it if anyone could help me understand this.