Using alfred to start many applications at once and set up multiple workspaces

[reidjs]

Hello  My name's Reid, I work as a software developer. I love alfred and bought the powerpack a long time ago. After work, I close all of my work applications. It's a pain to have to re-open everything the next day. I was wondering how to get started building a script to set my desktop automatically. 

 

Here's my preferred setup: 

Monitor #1:

1) Full Screen iTerm split horizontally with 2 panes pointed to 2 directories

2) Full Screen VSCode project

3) desktop (no applications open)

4) Full Screen VSCode project

5) Full Screen iTerm split 4 panes, pointed to 2 directories, with 2 scripts running

6) Full Screen VSCode project

7) Full Screen database application

 

Monitor #2 (if available):

1) VSCode (not full screen, just open)

2) Google Chrome (not full screen, just open)

 

Any tips, feedback, or links to tutorials are appreciated. Thank you! 

[Pearcen]

I do this with Alfred and Moom working together.

 

Alfred kicks off all the apps that I need using Launch Apps action in the workflow, then a delay to make sure they've all started and then runs a global keyboard shortcut which runs a Moom window placement setting that puts the opened apps into the right place.

 

 

[dfay]

i’ve used exactly the same approach for a while:

 

 

Edited July 13, 2021 by dfay

[Martin Packer]

Sounds like a job for Brett Terpstra's Bunch.

[iApple]

4 hours ago, Pearcen said:

I do this with Alfred and Moom working together.

 

Alfred kicks off all the apps that I need using Launch Apps action in the workflow, then a delay to make sure they've all started and then runs a global keyboard shortcut which runs a Moom window placement setting that puts the opened apps into the right place.

 

 

Hi. Does this work on Big Sur? Can you please post a link to workflow? Thanks

[reidjs]

19 hours ago, Pearcen said:

I do this with Alfred and Moom working together.

 

Alfred kicks off all the apps that I need using Launch Apps action in the workflow, then a delay to make sure they've all started and then runs a global keyboard shortcut which runs a Moom window placement setting that puts the opened apps into the right place.

 

 

Wow thank you! I will give this a shot. 

[reidjs]

I will take a look at this, https://bunchapp.co/download/ as well

 

edit: unfortunately bunch does not support window management at this time 

https://bunchapp.co/docs/bunch-files/window-management/

Edited July 13, 2021 by reidjs

[dfay]

Really Moom is the best for that aspect.  I haven’t really looked at Bunch but you could always have it call Moom at the end.

[Pearcen]

On 7/13/2021 at 3:43 PM, iApple said:

Hi. Does this work on Big Sur? Can you please post a link to workflow? Thanks

@iapple It's a great workflow to try and build yourself if you have never tried before as so few moving parts, but I've done an export and put it here : https://github.com/pearcenuk/Alfred-public

 

Hope it works. 

[iApple]

@Pearcen, thanks will give it a try. ^⌥⌘W is your shortcut for a specific Moom layout?

[Pearcen]

12 hours ago, iApple said:

@Pearcen, thanks will give it a try. ^⌥⌘W is your shortcut for a specific Moom layout?

Yeah the second screenshot on my original post is from Moom. I saved a layout and gave it that shortcut. Obvs you can use whatever one you like and update the workflow to use your preferred hotkeys.

Good luck

[iApple]

58 minutes ago, Pearcen said:

Yeah the second screenshot on my original post is from Moom. I saved a layout and gave it that shortcut. Obvs you can use whatever one you like and update the workflow to use your preferred hotkeys.

Good luck

Thanks @Pearcen. I've modified it work with my setup.

 

Pity workflow below doesn't work on Big Sur. It lists all layouts in Moom setup so can pick & choose which one to launch. 2nd portion works which is essentially @dfayscript but the 1st portion of getting list from Moom only works on Catalina.