Play/pause focusatwill.com in Google Chrome

[tangledhelix]

This workflow lets you play/pause a focusatwill.com tab in Google Chrome using a hotkey or a keyword.  It won't activate Chrome, change the active tab, or otherwise disturb what you're otherwise working on.

 

Download the workflow from Packal.

 

[tangledhelix]

Updated to v1.2, now supports "next track" function.

[tangledhelix]

Updated to v1.3. This fixes a Javascript problem that crept up in Chrome at some point, and adds support for changing genre using an auto-complete list within Alfred.

[cands]

I've been using this workflow for a couple of years. It has worked very well and it's so convenient to be able to play/pause from Alfred, thanks very much for making it! There was recently an update to focusatwill.com that broke the workflow (at least for me, I'm on macOS 10.12.6 and Alfred 3.5.1). Any chance you could upgrade the workflow to work with the new focusatwill.com?

 

Edit: I just checked on Packal and realized that you have already updated it, now with new features! It works great, thank you very much! Maybe good to write a post here about your update, Packal is not actively maintained (unfortunately) and I don't think so many Alfred users check it regularly anymore.

Edited December 8, 2017 by cands

[tangledhelix]

cands,

 

Yes as you found I did do an update to support the new React-based site. I didn't realize Packal wasn't maintained much. It would be nice if Alfred hosted some kind of registry itself, the way iOS has an App Store, or many languages have official repositories (npm for Node, pypi for Python, etc)...

[cands]

Agree, and it seems that many Alfred users think Packal was/is very useful and really would like it to shine again, but it seems to be difficult to solve the maintenance needed.