Force Keyword

[davezatch]

Hey,

Is there any way to force Alfred to use the workflow keyword, or give it precedence? I'm using e.g. the Colors workflow by Tyler Eich and the keyword is just 'c', but when I type only 'c' I get hundreds of hits, from bookmarks, contacts, etc. Is there a hotkey/modifier/preference to call the workflow above all?

 

Thanks!

[jdfwarrior]

Hey,

Is there any way to force Alfred to use the workflow keyword, or give it precedence? I'm using e.g. the Colors workflow by Tyler Eich and the keyword is just 'c', but when I type only 'c' I get hundreds of hits, from bookmarks, contacts, etc. Is there a hotkey/modifier/preference to call the workflow above all?

 

Thanks!

 

You could attach a hotkey to the front end of the workflow definitely. Then anytime you wanted to action that workflow it would link directly to it without any other results. You could try changing the keyword for the workflow.

[davezatch]

Yeah that makes sense, but it doesn't really scale to, say, 20 workflows with the same problem. Or is it possible to set the same hotkey to multiple workflows?

[Andrew]

Hey,

Is there any way to force Alfred to use the workflow keyword, or give it precedence? I'm using e.g. the Colors workflow by Tyler Eich and the keyword is just 'c', but when I type only 'c' I get hundreds of hits, from bookmarks, contacts, etc. Is there a hotkey/modifier/preference to call the workflow above all?

 

Thanks!

 

It shouldn't matter that the workflow is a bit buried in the results as you don't need to 'action' the workflow before you can use it... if you just continue to type e.g. show Alfred and just type #f00, the other results will soon disappear when they are no longer relevant.

[Tyler Eich]

Hey,

Is there any way to force Alfred to use the workflow keyword, or give it precedence? I'm using e.g. the Colors workflow by Tyler Eich and the keyword is just 'c', but when I type only 'c' I get hundreds of hits, from bookmarks, contacts, etc. Is there a hotkey/modifier/preference to call the workflow above all?

 

Thanks!

If you type 'c', look for the 'Color Picker' option, and action that, Alfred will learn that you prefer that result. If you keep selecting that result, it will work its way to the top. Otherwise, your results will narrow pretty quickly as you type, for example, 'c red'.

I don't know if this helps, and it may not be as big a problem with my workflow as it is with others (Colors has really short, unique keywords).

I also would like Alfred to learn which Script Filters I use the most; I submitted a bug report about it (http://www.alfredforum.com/topic/1685-script-filters-are-not-included-in-alfreds-knowledge/).

[Andrew]

I also would like Alfred to learn which Script Filters I use the most; I submitted a bug report about it (http://www.alfredforum.com/topic/1685-script-filters-are-not-included-in-alfreds-knowledge/).

 

This is actually something I've recently started to look into, I'm likely going to move that back from Noted into Bugs at some point

[davezatch]

@Andrew ok I didn't even realize that I could just start typing e.g. a hex code and alfred would realize that. That's very cool. And I look forward to seeing what the future brings