Hotkey for snippets

[barbecuebob]

I feel like there must be an easy way to do this, but I haven't figured it out -- can I assign a hotkey to a snippet?  e.g. pressing Ctrl+F5 would paste a snippet into my document, without bringing up the Alfred menu.

 

Thanks.

[jdfwarrior]

There IS a way but it's not as straight forward as I'm thinking that you were hoping it to be. You can't just directly assign a hotkey to snippets that you've created within Alfred but with the Powerpack you could create a workflow to do something very similar.

 

For instance, you could create a workflow that would have a Hotkey trigger (obviously), attached to a Copy to Clipboard output that pasted into the current application and you would just set the text to be pasted there. Does that makes sense?

[politicus]

@David  It makes perfect sense and this is awesome.

 

Just created the workflow to expand some snippets in... TextExpander. 

 

Time saver+way easier.