How does Alfred internal search work?

[politicus]

I wanted to find the keyboard shortcut of one of my workflow (a very simple workflow that launches the Keyboard Maestro application).

 

So I typed "?keyboard" in Alfred search bar but no sign of the workflow I was looking for. 

 

Adding a note containing "Keyboard Maestro" to the workflow didn't help. 

 

 

 

[deanishe]

AFAIK, you can't search for keyboard shortcuts at all with the ? search.

Currently, the search is extremely picky, and only finds things that start with your query. So for example, you won't be able to find a workflow called "Safari Bookmark Search" with the query "bookmark" or "search", only with "safari".

[vitor]

18 hours ago, politicus said:

I wanted to find the keyboard shortcut of one of my workflow

 

18 hours ago, politicus said:

So I typed "?keyboard" in Alfred search bar

 

Alfred doesn’t call them “Keyboard Shortcuts”, but “Hotkey Triggers”. Search for hotkey and you’ll find what you’re looking for.

[Andrew]

Just to add to this, as @deanishe said, the internal search is currently picky. As with all new features in Alfred, I like to start focused and then improve, and internal search is something which will certainly evolve throughout Alfred 4 as I get a feeling of how people are using it and what it's missing 

 

Cheers,

Andrew

[politicus]

@deanishe : ok, good to know.

@vitor : Thanks for the tip 👍

@Andrew : Can't wait for the next update!

[deanishe]

On 7/22/2019 at 1:51 PM, vitor said:

Search for hotkey and you’ll find what you’re looking for.

 

Well, you'll get a list of all Hotkey elements, whether they have any keyboard shortcut set or not. It's not much good for actually finding a hotkey, either by workflow name or the key you press.