leonherrmann Posted January 12, 2018 Share Posted January 12, 2018 Hello, while I love the ease of use of alfred and the great workflows created by the community, there is one thing missing for me to make Alfred perfect. It would be cool it were possible to output html or an image when a user presses enter on an item. This would be great for showing information on the web like wikipedia, imdb or wolfram alpha. It would also enable output that is more visually pleasing than plain old text output. I know that the not longer maintained Flashlight (https://github.com/nate-parrott/Flashlight) had this feature. Cheers Leon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanishe Posted January 12, 2018 Share Posted January 12, 2018 Hi Leon. Welcome to the forums. 3 hours ago, leonherrmann said: It would be cool it were possible to output html or an image when a user presses enter on an item What do you mean by "output" exactly? It's possible to stuff basically anything you want into an item's data. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leonherrmann Posted January 15, 2018 Author Share Posted January 15, 2018 With output I mean a similar behavior as showing contacts or showing the contexts of a folder. My idea would be that you have a workflow for wikipedia as an example but instead of opening a web browser a new view (like the contacts one) opens with the mobile version of the particular wikipedia article. I hope that clarified things. If not please ask more questions. P.S.: I'm new to creating workflows in Alfred. I just experimented a bit with simple workflows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanishe Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 You can’t display images or webpages in Alfred, but you can hit SHIFT or CMD+Y on a result to preview it in Quicklook (if it’s a URL or file). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leonherrmann Posted January 16, 2018 Author Share Posted January 16, 2018 Yes, I know that. That's why I put this request in the Feature Suggestions Category. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanishe Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 You can also call Quicklook on the command-line with qlmanage -p <filepath>, so you can make it your item action. If that's not acceptable, could you describe more precisely what you're suggesting? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leonherrmann Posted January 16, 2018 Author Share Posted January 16, 2018 While this trick sounds interesting, I would imagine a more integrated way of showing the output of some workflow directly in Alfred. I made a quick mockup of what I would imagine it looking. The idea is that you can show (generated) images or as in the attached example websites directly in Alfred. This would be especially useful if you just want to look up something quickly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanishe Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 Right. So an integrated preview, like in file browser mode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leonherrmann Posted January 16, 2018 Author Share Posted January 16, 2018 Exactly! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benben Posted January 18, 2021 Share Posted January 18, 2021 (edited) +1 (i use "keyboard maestro" for stuff like that for now): (Even with inserted user input) Edited January 18, 2021 by Benben Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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