luciano Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 A useful feature in Alfred is pressing the spacebar (which inserts an apostrophe) to find a file. Instead of typing text in Alfred, can I search for the file by selecting text and using a Text Action? There is already the action 'Use in Alfred' which nearly does what I want, but I cannot see a way of searching specifically for a file. Link to comment
Stephen_C Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 Have you considered the File Action? Stephen sepulchra 1 Link to comment
luciano Posted February 22 Author Share Posted February 22 Do that only work when files are selected? I am wanting to find a file by selecting text. But that text is the filename. Link to comment
Stephen_C Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 So in effect you want to convert selected text to a file search? (Just to be quite clear.) Stephen Link to comment
Stephen_C Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 How will you know that what you have selected is, or contains, a file name? It may be more helpful if you describe a little more fully exactly what you want to achieve (and the context) and why. Stephen Link to comment
JJJJ Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 9 hours ago, luciano said: A useful feature in Alfred is pressing the spacebar (which inserts an apostrophe) to find a file. Instead of typing text in Alfred, can I search for the file by selecting text and using a Text Action? There is already the action 'Use in Alfred' which nearly does what I want, but I cannot see a way of searching specifically for a file. You can put apostrophe(') prefix in "Show Alfred" hotkey trigger and it would go to file search automatically. It should look like this: Stephen_C 1 Link to comment
luciano Posted February 23 Author Share Posted February 23 This is context in which I would use. I have a long bibliography of references in a Microsoft Word. Here are three examples: 1. Kear, J., Editor (2005). Ducks, Geese and Swans. Volume 1: General chapters, and Species accounts (Anhima to Salvadorina). Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. 2. Brazil, M. (2009). Field Guide to the Birds of East Asia: Eastern China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan and Eastern Russia. Christopher Helm, London, UK. 3. Øien, I. J., P. Tolvanen, T. Aarvak, and J. Markkola (1999). Occurrence and identification of Lesser While-fronted Goose. Alula 5(1):18–23. These references are also saved as PDFs on my computer. Instead of having to open Alfred and and type 'Field Guide to the Birds of East Asia to find the PDF, I want to select "Field Guide to the Birds of East Asia" in the bibliography of the Microsoft Word document and use the selected text to open the PDF. Link to comment
luciano Posted March 10 Author Share Posted March 10 When I run this same action in Microsoft Word, an apostrophe is entered into the Alfred search bar, but not the text. Outside of Microsoft Word, it works as expected, ie both apostrophe and text is entered into Alfred search bar. Why does it behave differently in Microsoft Word? Link to comment
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