SideNotes with Alfred.

[optimus1509]

Hi, I am trying to find a workflow that will allow me to create and manage notes in sidenotes. Anyone using this? Any pointers to a workflow will be greatly appreciated. Cant seem to find any on packal or pacmax.

[vitor]

Doesn’t look like it’s possible. I looked at SideNote’s AppleScript dictionary and it seems to only be able to show and read notes, not create them. Pity, looked like an interesting app.

[optimus1509]

Thanks for your response. I’ve been able to get around this for now by simply using the side notes create note key combo in an alfred workflow for creating a new note. Not the most ideal way but gets the job done. 

[Acidham]

I am not using SideNotes but with AppleScript it will be relatively easy.

 

Following AS gets all available folders:

 

-- Get list of available folders
tell application "SideNotes"
	
	set folders_object to folders
	set folder_list to {}
	repeat with f in folders_object
		set folder_list to folder_list & name of item 1 of f
	end repeat
end tell

 

And with this you can create a note "hello world":

 

-- Use folder name from previous code
set target_folder to "Showcase"

-- Create note in target folder
tell application "SideNotes"
	set n to make new note at folder target_folder
	set text of n to "hello world"
end tell

 

1. WF step requires a Script Filter for choosing a target folder

2. WF step to enter the text for the note 

3. WF step create note in SideNotes

[vitor]

@Acidham I stand corrected!

[optimus1509]

@Acidham @vitor Please excuse my lack of knowledge, but this is a little more complex than i thought it would be, passing the results of the SideNotes folders back to alfred etc are not my cup of tea. Any chance you can help with the exact workflow to be created? I am looking at typing a keyword--> alfred shows list of folders-->I select or specify the folder--> type the text for the note-->Alfred creates the note in the specified folder.

 

Thanks again for all your help.

[Acidham]

Quick and dirty...enjoy: https://github.com/Acidham/alfred-sidenotes

[optimus1509]

I tried out the workflow and it works perfectly. Thank you very much for your help.

Edited October 5, 2020 by optimus1509

[yarub123]

Thank you very much Acidham, seriously. Was wondering if this can be modified to allow one to view notes in each folder? like just show a list of them and maybe allow us to click the shift key to use the normal preview?

 

Take care Germany.

[optimus1509]

@Acidham For some reason this is no longer working when i moved to macOS Big Sur and reinstalled python 3.9. The workflow debugger gives the following - 

 

ImportError: cannot import name 'readPlist' from 'plistlib' (/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/plistlib.py)

 

Any suggestions please? Thanks

[Acidham]

Please try following workaround and let me know: 

 

Edited November 14, 2020 by Acidham