MITCHETJUK Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 (edited) Hi  I'm a long time user of Alfred, but most of its capabilities pass me by: I'm no programmer so I use what is up front, obvious and available. I have tried to play with workflows but not very successfully. So we now know my profile/level. 🙂  But I'm trying to find a way to shortcut today's date into a number of filenames, documents, etc, in the format yyyy-mm-dd, so 2021-03-14. I thought it might be something that Alfred offers. And it might but I can't see anything obvious in the options. But that's probably me being technically shortsighted. Before I spend hours trying to find something that doesn't exist or try to configure something that isn't possible I'd really welcome some guidance about whether Alfred has the capability to make this possible. It's probably worth adding that I don't want to change the system date to this format.  Many thanks TJ Edited March 15, 2021 by MITCHETJUK typo Link to comment
deanishe Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 https://www.alfredapp.com/help/workflows/advanced/placeholders/#date-time  The placeholder you’re looking for is {date:yyyy-MM-dd}  MITCHETJUK 1 Link to comment
MITCHETJUK Posted March 14, 2021 Author Share Posted March 14, 2021 deanishe, Â thank you for your advice. I have created a snippet (YMD) and it works as you suggest. I appreciate your response, thanks again. Â TJ Link to comment
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now