Is it possible to make non-global hotkey workflow?

[avendael]

Hello! I'm new to alfred and I'm trying to create hotkeys to launch the apps that I'm frequently using. I know that it can be done using alfred's workflows, but I don't like my hotkeys to be global. Instead, I want the hotkey's scope to be limited to alfred. In quicksilver, I can do this by setting up a trigger, binding it to a hotkey, and limiting it's scope to only quicksilver. For example, I set opt-r to open chrome, but I actually have to press opt-space first to activate quicksilver and then opt-r to open chrome. This allows me to define hotkeys without worrying whether it would clobber another app's existing keybindings. Is it also possible in alfred?

[Tyler Eich]

This is not possible with Alfred (not without a hack, at least ). I suggest you voice your support for Workflow Scopes, a previously-suggested feature

[Andrew]

Hello! I'm new to alfred and I'm trying to create hotkeys to launch the apps that I'm frequently using. I know that it can be done using alfred's workflows, but I don't like my hotkeys to be global. Instead, I want the hotkey's scope to be limited to alfred. In quicksilver, I can do this by setting up a trigger, binding it to a hotkey, and limiting it's scope to only quicksilver. For example, I set opt-r to open chrome, but I actually have to press opt-space first to activate quicksilver and then opt-r to open chrome. This allows me to define hotkeys without worrying whether it would clobber another app's existing keybindings. Is it also possible in alfred?

 

Scoped hotkeys are a possibility for a future release of Alfred... for now, Alfred will very quickly learn to associate a letter to the app you want to launch, e.g. show Alfred, type 'c' return for Google Chrome.