How to exclude one app from Alfred default search

[nikivi]

I want to exclude one app Tweetbot so that when I search for it in Alfred, nothing is returned.

 

The reason I want to do it is that I work in Focus sessions similar to Pomodoro where I block all distracting things for 1 and half hour and focus on what I need to do. Only issue is that I sometimes do want to post a tweet and thus use Tweetbot's create tweet action.

 

I activate Tweetbot app with Keyboard Maestro macro that will not open Tweetbot when I am in the focus session because I create a file at start of Focus session and erase it in the end. The macro looks like this if anyone is interested: 

 

However I still can access Tweetbot quickly from Alfred and I want to block that.

 

Is there a way to blacklist an app from Alfred search?

 

Edited January 14, 2018 by nikivi

[vitor]

System Preferences → Spotlight → Privacy. Drag Tweetbot to the list in that pane. Alfred Preferences → Advanced → Clear Application Cache.

Done.

[nikivi]

Awesome. I forgot about the Spotlight list. Thank you.

[deanishe]

I think you can also add an alfred:ignore comment to the application if you don't want to delist it from Spotlight completely.

[meadowphoenix]

How might I exclude an app from search results that isn't accessible via Spotlight Privacy window?

 

I want to exclude Google Drive's FinderHelper.app because that always appears above macOS' Finder in the search results.

 

It's file path is:

 

Applications/Google Drive.app/Contents/Applications/FinderHelper.app

 

Thanks so much.

[vitor]

Right-click the Google Drive app and “Show Contents”. Then you’ll be able navigate to the other one.