Alfred Time - See time passed from your Birthday

[nikivi]

Alfred Birthday

 

This is a simple workflow that shows you how much time has passed since your birthday. This is how the workflow looks like for me: 

 

 

For you this might be different. But you can never be certain.

 

In order to use this workflow, you first have to set your birthday as alfred environment variable here: 

 

 

In the future I hope to make that process simpler.

 

Hopefully it helps you be more aware of time passed. At least that's the goal. 

 

Hope you like it. ?

 

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Edited February 27, 2018 by nikivi

[xilopaint]

Pretty fast

[nikivi]

Oops. I did a silly mistake and it actually didn't use the date you pass in as variable. Now it does and works perfectly well.

 

You can grab the latest version from GitHub or wait a bit if you installed my initial version. Sorry about that.

[nikivi]

I was thinking. Would it be possible to somehow have the seconds item ticking in real time? Without having to type things to update it? 

[deanishe]

1 hour ago, nikivi said:

Would it be possible to somehow have the seconds item ticking in real time?

 

Yes. rerun.

[nikivi]

Made the change. Now seconds are ticking.

 

Not sure if I added  Rerun to correct place. Here is where I put it. I was thinking of only evaluating the last item in the script filter and not actually rerunning the entire script filter every second. So I wanted to just add 1 to the last item every second. 

Edited December 1, 2017 by nikivi

[deanishe]

7 hours ago, nikivi said:

Not sure if I added  Rerun to correct place

 

Not really. Where you've added it means Alfred will re-run the Script Filter regardless, e.g. also when it's showing "Please add your date of birth…".

 

It should be in this else-clause.

 

7 hours ago, nikivi said:

I was thinking of only evaluating the last item in the script filter and not actually rerunning the entire script filter every second.

 

Alfred re-runs the entire Script Filter. How else could it possibly work?

[nikivi]

I was thinking to somehow only rerun this line and leave all other items as they are. I will cache all other items but minutes and seconds and update them only when time comes. I just feel bad for having to calculate all the fields just to update the seconds.

Edited December 1, 2017 by nikivi

[deanishe]

32 minutes ago, nikivi said:

I will cache all other items but minutes and seconds and update them only when time comes.

 

Bad idea. Reading and writing a file will take far, far longer than recalculating the values.

 

What you're doing wrong is running time.Since(birthDate) six times instead of doing d := time.Since(birthDate) once.

[nikivi]

Thank you a lot @deanishe

 

Released new version with the changes ?