Markdown support for Alfred's "Large Type" feature

[DieterBieber]

Hi Team,

My most missed feature in Alfred is the lack of (markdown) or formatting support for Alfred's "large font" feature. It feels like this feature has not gotten much love lately. With the rise of GPT's and other web services that return text to Alfred, it feels very uncomfortable to view a large amount of text in Alfred due to the very limited capabilities of this feature. Adding support for bold and italic text as well as lists would be sufficient for my use case.

[Stephen_C]

Welcome to the forum.

 

Have you seen Alfred 5.5's TextView and, by way of example, the manner in which it's used in the ChatGPT/DALL-E workflow?

 

Stephen

[DieterBieber]

This is exactly what I was looking for. Tbh, I had not yet updated nor studied the changes of Alfred's last update. Thank you very much.

[defmc]

Im trying out a workflow that is using Claude in the same way as the GPT workflow; that is, with TextView. But it does not parse markdown tables. The workflow has ticked off markdown in the TextView settings, but it doesnt work. 

Are tables excempt from the parsing, or might the reason be something else?

EDIT: Just found out that tables are not implemented. Thats unfortunate.

Edited August 25 by defmc

[FireFingers21]

I made a post several months ago asking the same thing. The language indicates it's planned but not a priority. Perhaps that priority could shift with multiple people wanting extended syntax support, it would certainly make the Text View way more versatile.