Hotkey support

[Alan He]

I think hotkey should enhance, because it improve productivity.

 

When active on any workflow and hotkey- ⌘ F, cursor should move to Filter input.

 

 

 

 

 

Besides, ⌘ 1-6 change tab is perfect if support it.

 

 

New ideas

 

When workflow active, I think shortkey for env setting/export/remote. like ⌘ E

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited September 28, 2021 by Alan He

[deanishe]

20 minutes ago, Alan He said:

When active on any workflow and hotkey- ⌘ F, cursor should move to Filter input.

 

Why would that be better than Search Preferences?

[Alan He]

3 hours ago, deanishe said:

 

Why would that be better than Search Preferences?

The two do not conflict.

 

If it is already on the workflow tab. it's better.

 

[Chris Messina]

9 hours ago, Alan He said:

When active on any workflow and hotkey- ⌘ F, cursor should move to Filter input.

 

+1. At the very least, it should be possible to use a keyboard shortcut to put focus on the Workflow Filter input.

 

This is preferable over the Alfred-wide Search Preferences because:

1. There's already a dedicated input field for this purpose.
2. Limiting scope to workflows enhancing the productivity of this interface.

For example, if I wanted to find all of my "Toolkit" Workflows, this is what Search Preferences yields, which searches inside of workflows:

 

 

In contrast, I only want to see the Workflows themselves:

 

 

[Chris Messina]

10 hours ago, Alan He said:

When active on any workflow and hotkey- ⌘ F, cursor should move to Filter input.

 

I realized that it was silly that this doesn't already work this way, so I went ahead and made a Workflow to enable this! (Note, this will only work when Workflows are visible).

 

 

Download Filter Alfred Workflows

 

Maybe @Andrew can fix this in the next build and/or add more accessibility features to make it easier to script the UI since the sidebar is a custom UI component that isn't accessible via AppleScript.

[deanishe]

7 hours ago, Chris Messina said:

it should be possible to use a keyboard shortcut to put focus on the Workflow Filter input.

 

I totally agree with that. It’s ⌘F focussing a different field dependent on context in the same view that I think is somewhat questionable.

 

It should be a different shortcut, imo, say ⇧⌘F.

[Chris Messina]

48 minutes ago, deanishe said:

It should be a different shortcut, imo, say ⇧⌘F.

 

We agree. And holy shit, I actually implemented it myself this time!! 🏆😁

[Andrew]

If you weren't aware - if you are already focused on the workflow list, you can just start typing to filter that list. The focus will automatically go up to the search field.

[Andrew]

I've just added in a ⇧⌘F shortcut in preferences which will highlight the Workflows filter field. I've actually made this global within the preferences too, so if you're not in the workflow tab, the shortcut will switch to the workflows tab, then focus the field.

 

This will be in the next release.

[Chris Messina]

Amazing! Thanks @Andrew!