[Alfred 5.5] QuickPad – scratchpad, toggled with one hotkey

[pseudometa]

Played a bit around with the 5.5 Beta and textview. Came up with this very simple workflow, consisting completely of building blocks provided by Alfred (no code).

 

• It brings up a simple scratchpad via hotkey, and hides the scratchpad again with the same hotkey.
• The file content can be saved via cmd+enter, and previewed via shift+enter.
• Main caveat of this workflow is that cmd+enter is the *only* available method of saving the content – cmd+s does not work, and (as far as I can tell) it's not possible to have the note content saved when using esc on the text view.

 

Simple solution, which nonetheless replaced my need for a separate scratchpad app

 

https://transfer.archivete.am/XI9sH/QuickPad.alfredworkflow

[sepulchra]

This great. I've built something similar and also have been futzing with a tot replacement that essentially triggers a filefilter that has five different scratch pad documents where the the write to text action appends plain text. Been looking at your tot workflow as a bit of a model.

[andy4222]

This is useful @pseudometa. Any way the text view can remain floating above other apps? Right now if move the focus away from the text view, it disappears

[pseudometa]

3 hours ago, andy4222 said:

This is useful @pseudometa. Any way the text view can remain floating above other apps? Right now if move the focus away from the text view, it disappears

As far as I can tell, that's not possible, no

[dfay]

Is it possible to make it persist and receive text from Alfred's clipboard history / snippet viewer?

This may need to be a request to @Andrew .... thanks!

[s00500]

This is really awesome! thanks