Make Shortcuts first class citizens of Alfred

[pontus]

Shortcuts became the automation Apple didn’t manage to create by themselves. 
In addition to shell script and JXA this should be a cornerstone for Alfred workflows for a long time to come

 

Several features could be added for Alfred to handle them natively:

 - List folders in prefs and check/uncheck which ones should be included in search results. 
 - Prefs for listing shortcuts in default search, file search, with keyword, with hotkey. 
- List shortcuts with their native icon.

 

In addition, shortcuts could be the basis for a new type of workflow.

- Select a shortcut and wrap it in an Alfred workflow. Alfred automatically does a number of things:

     - Hide that shortcut from regular results

      - Detect input types allowed and exposes the shortcut in universal actions etc. 

      - Detect keyboard trigger for shortcut (to avoid clashes).

      - set workflow icon to default the same icon as the shortcut has.

- A shortcut type workflow would have the shortcut as its mandatory object, but could also include other objects. 
- When installing a new workflow the workflow would have the shortcut bundled and asked to be installed as it is done here (awesome!) but without the extra objects: https://alfred.app/workflows/vitor/shrieking-chimes/

- dependency management keeping track of which workflows uses which shortcut (and if they are removed).