Banner Be Gone — Close notification alerts

[vitor]

Usage

Clear visible macOS notification banners via the notclear keyword.

Configure the Hotkey for faster triggering.

⤓ Install on the Alfred Gallery | Source

[vitor]

When reporting issues, please include your exact installed versions of:

• The Workflow.
• Alfred.
• macOS.
  

In addition to:

• The debugger output. Perform the failing action, click “Copy” on the top right and paste it here.
• Details on what you did, what happened, and what you expected to happen. A short video of the steps with the debugger open may help to find the problem faster.
  

Thank you. Accurate and thorough information is crucial for a proper diagnosis which allows me to help you better.

[vitor]

Updated to 2023.2.

• Faster execution.
• Removed language options.
• Clarify in the About notifications have to be visible.
  

[nrambeck]

I love this workflow! However, it doesn't quite dismiss all notifications. For example, if I have a Slack notification, instead of closing the notification, it toggles the reply state of the notification (which allows a quick reply to the Slack message). 

 

I updated the code in the workflow to run banner.perform() twice and that usually dismissed everything.

 

However, that probably isn't the best way to do it. 

 

Thanks!

 

[vitor]

Thank you for the kind words.

Due to the nature of the operation, the alternative would be to check all possible actions on every banner then perform on the one whose name indicates it closes the notification. However, that is considerably slower and it would require getting the names of the Close and Clear All operations in every language, which either requires configuration or becoming even slower. I spent a ton of time on that.

In other words, there’s always a trade-off. I picked the least annoying one. Maybe you can change Slack’s notification type to be different?

[nrambeck]

No problem. I realize this notification dismiss action has been notoriously difficult to solve in the past. Thanks for making this available.

[iApple]

Thanks for the workflow. But I'm getting error message; running on latest Alfred and MacOS.

 

ERROR: Banner Be Gone[Run Script] /Users/mac1/Library/Caches/com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred/Workflow Scripts/47616846-5A63-432A-B974-55E7749E5800: execution error: Error: Error: Invalid index. (-1719)

[Stephen_C]

It's probably helpful to paste the entire debugger output in case that helps in diagnosing the specific problem.

 

Stephen

[iApple]

1 minute ago, Stephen_C said:

It's probably helpful to paste the entire debugger output in case that helps in diagnosing the specific problem.

 

Stephen

it's only 1 liner. Not other message

[vitor]

9 hours ago, iApple said:

running on latest Alfred and MacOS.

 

Please always share the exact version. Developers are often on different releases from users and “latest” is fuzzy (latest beta, stable, pre-release?). Plus, it makes it harder for others who arrive later to identify if the issue applies to them. To provide informed help it is imperative that we work with precise information.

Also, for this I’ll need a screen recording of it happening, with the debugger open.

[andy4222]

workflow version: 2023.2

 

```

[15:02:32.566] Logging Started...
[15:02:36.122] Banner Be Gone[Keyword] Processing complete
[15:02:36.128] Banner Be Gone[Keyword] Passing output '' to Run Script
[15:02:36.293] ERROR: Banner Be Gone[Run Script] /Users/<USER>/Library/Caches/com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred/Workflow Scripts/7DCFD641-6A1E-4799-B550-AF03A71B2800: execution error: Error: Error: Invalid index. (-1719)

```

 

screen recording https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/wdr3dpyaee3a8mhwqeei9/video.mp4?rlkey=q0v7v77s3cjn2479nmrbvj4zw&dl=0

 

@vitor Any way to fix this?

Edited February 18 by andy4222

[vitor]

As the instructions say, the workflow clears visible notifications.

[sepulchra]

Vitor -- just wanted to thank you for this workflow. It is one of my most used and it is a great example of something that does one thing extremely well. I rely on certain notifications daily and therefore have them set to be Alerts so they remain until i dismiss them with Banner Be Gone! 

[vitor]

Updated to 2024.2.

Updated for changes in Sequoia.

If you’re on Sonoma, don’t update yet, this version is specific for Sequoia. If you updated by mistake, you can revert to the previous version from GitHub.