Carlos-Sz Posted February 26, 2013 Share Posted February 26, 2013 (edited) Overview Workflow to display recent Finder files and folders featuring: 5 default categories 2 custom categories Favorites, including a file action Keywords and hotkeys for Favorites and all categories apart Interaction with Open/Save dialogs and Finder Go To Folder Preview, reveal, open or use Alfred file actions Usage Show Alfred and type the keyword rec: You can also use the category keyword if you prefer to access the recent files directly, without an initial menu: Now: keyword now Folders: keyword fol Applications: keyword apps Documents: keyword docs Downloads: keyword dow Custom Category 1: keyword c1 Custom Category 2: keyword c2 Favorites: keyword fav In addition, there is a hotkey for the keyword rec, Favorites and all categories apart. Note that all keywords, as well as the hotkeys, can be changed (go to Alfred Preferences > Workflows). Finally, once inside a category you have the following actions: Return key: open the file or folder Command key: reveal the file or folder in Finder Option key: pass the file/older path to an open/save dialog or Finder window Control key: add/remove an item to/from Favorites Shift key: preview (Quick Look) the file or folder Custom Categories You can set up to two custom categories: Show Alfred and type the keyword recpref Select a category to configure and press return key Type an unique category name with at least 3 characters Type one or more (separated by comma) file types e.g.: com.adobe.pdf,public.plain-text To find a file type you can use Alfred Metadata Analyzer. To remove a custom category press command key while highlighting one of them in recpref.Favorites All files or folders set as a favorite item will remain in the list no matter how old they are. To add an item to Favorites just highlight a file or folder, hold control key and press return key. To remove an item go to Favorites, highlight an item, hold control key and press return key. You can also add items utilizing Alfred File Action (accepts multiple files). Note that Favorites has also its own keyword (fav) and hotkey.Interacting with Open/Save Dialog or Finder You can pass a recent file or folder path, or an item in Favorites, to an open/save dialog or even the current Finder window to go to that folder: when an open/save dialog is displayed type the keyword rec or any other category keyword find an item (a file or folder or an item from Favorites), highlight it, hold option key and press return key wait a bit so the workflow can load and paste the item path Default Folder The workflow remembers the last path used per application. To use the feature just type the keyword df when an open/save dialog is displayed. If the workflow was never used for the application, or the path does not exist anymore, then the keyword rec will be automatically triggered so you can select a path from a file or folder. There is also a hotkey to make things even faster. Make sure to give the feature time to process because e.g. if you hold keyboard keys way too long then the feature may not work as expected.What’s new Up to 2 custom categories (keyword recpref) Downloads category Keyword for each category Hotkey for each category Multiple files in Add to Favorites file action Changed Auto-path to Default Folder (keyworod df) Changed Just Now category to Now Added Help (keyword rechelp) Update to Alfred 2.3 features Several internal improvements Download Version 4.3 beta 2 (removed Alfred 3 references) Release date: 12 Jul 2020 Requires Alfred 4 Download Version 4.2 Release date: 19 Jun 2016 Requires Alfred 3 Download Edited July 12, 2020 by Carlos-Sz zhouhui, lihai23333, anarchaeopteryx and 26 others 28 1 Link to comment
boomchaos Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 Works perfectly! This is awesome Link to comment
Carlos-Sz Posted February 27, 2013 Author Share Posted February 27, 2013 Works perfectly! This is awesome Great! Thank you for your feedback. Link to comment
Carlos-Sz Posted March 16, 2013 Author Share Posted March 16, 2013 Great workflow, thanks! Thank you! Link to comment
Carlos-Sz Posted March 25, 2013 Author Share Posted March 25, 2013 Workflow version 1.8 is out (25 Mar 2013)! Favorites improved drill-down menu interaction with open/save OS X dialogs See initial post for details. Jono 1 Link to comment
Jono Posted March 25, 2013 Share Posted March 25, 2013 Workflow version 1.8 is out (25 Mar 2013)! Favorites improved drill-down menu interaction with open/save OS X dialogs See initial post for details. Excellent, thanks. Link to comment
nickwild Posted March 25, 2013 Share Posted March 25, 2013 (edited) Great thanks. A hotkey to the favourites would be perfect. Thanks again Love the interaction with the open/save dialogue! Edited March 25, 2013 by nickwild Link to comment
Carlos-Sz Posted March 25, 2013 Author Share Posted March 25, 2013 Excellent, thanks. Works perfectly! Great thanks. A hotkey to the favourites would be perfect. Thanks again Love the interaction with the open/save dialogue! Thank you all. Hotkeys will be added for sure. Link to comment
Carlos-Sz Posted March 26, 2013 Author Share Posted March 26, 2013 Version 1.9 is out! Added hotkey to display Favorites category See initial post for details. Link to comment
nickwild Posted March 26, 2013 Share Posted March 26, 2013 Wow! Speedy work! I can't get the interaction to work with the open/save box after the update, it comes up with a folder cannot be found error Also will this interaction work with attach for emails too (I use Outlook) Thanks again for all your work on this. Awesome! Link to comment
CarlosNZ Posted March 26, 2013 Share Posted March 26, 2013 Great stuff. Thanks for this. (Just one small typo: "There are no favorit items" - missing an e there, buddy! ) Link to comment
Carlos-Sz Posted March 27, 2013 Author Share Posted March 27, 2013 Wow! Speedy work! I can't get the interaction to work with the open/save box after the update, it comes up with a folder cannot be found error Also will this interaction work with attach for emails too (I use Outlook) Thanks again for all your work on this. Awesome! I don’t have Outlook but basically the interaction will work as long as the open/save dialog supports Command+Shift+G to set the folder. Regarding the issue, please try version 1.9.2 (see initial post) Great stuff. Thanks for this. (Just one small typo: "There are no favorit items" - missing an e there, buddy! ) Thank you. Fixed. Link to comment
nickwild Posted March 27, 2013 Share Posted March 27, 2013 Brilliant. What a workflow! Is there any way to amend the file types rather than scripts and plain text I would like Word docs and Excels docs? Thanks again. Link to comment
phyllisstein Posted March 27, 2013 Share Posted March 27, 2013 Extraordinarily well done. Thanks! Link to comment
andy Posted March 27, 2013 Share Posted March 27, 2013 I can't get it works . it always in state "Loading Recent Items" http://d.pr/i/pzQr Link to comment
Carlos-Sz Posted March 27, 2013 Author Share Posted March 27, 2013 Brilliant. What a workflow! Is there any way to amend the file types rather than scripts and plain text I would like Word docs and Excels docs? Thanks again. Thank you. Yes, it is possible. I’ll send you a PM about it. Extraordinarily well done. Thanks! Thank you. I can't get it works . it always in state "Loading Recent Items" http://d.pr/i/pzQr The one thing hard coded, and maybe it shouldn’t, is the Applications category icon that points to /Applications/App Store.app. Are you using Mountain Lion? Anyway, please try to delete the workflow, download it and install it again. Once I got a corrupted download and got stuck in a Loading screen. Link to comment
Carlos-Sz Posted March 27, 2013 Author Share Posted March 27, 2013 Version 1.9.5 is out with small improvements. See initial post. Link to comment
andy Posted March 28, 2013 Share Posted March 28, 2013 The one thing hard coded, and maybe it shouldn’t, is the Applications category icon that points to /Applications/App Store.app. Are you using Mountain Lion? Yes. I'm using Mountain Lion. But reinstalling the workflow with the new one seems fix the problem. Thanks Link to comment
CarlosNZ Posted March 28, 2013 Share Posted March 28, 2013 I love how this has combined about 3 workflows into one, but I'm wondering if it's possible to create keywords to access "Folders", "Favorites", etc. directly? If I want to access my Favorite folders, say, it would be easier to just type "fav", than have to go "rec", then select from a list. I mean, the branching structure is cool too, and I like having the option, but it'd be really great if we could do it both ways. Do you think this is possible? Link to comment
Carlos-Sz Posted March 28, 2013 Author Share Posted March 28, 2013 Yes. I'm using Mountain Lion. But reinstalling the workflow with the new one seems fix the problem. Thanks Great! Thank you for your feedback. I love how this has combined about 3 workflows into one, but I'm wondering if it's possible to create keywords to access "Folders", "Favorites", etc. directly? If I want to access my Favorite folders, say, it would be easier to just type "fav", than have to go "rec", then select from a list. I mean, the branching structure is cool too, and I like having the option, but it'd be really great if we could do it both ways. Do you think this is possible? Yes it is planned. I kind of think the same way. Link to comment
Carlos-Sz Posted March 28, 2013 Author Share Posted March 28, 2013 Version 1.9.6 is out: - fav keyword to access only Favorites items See initial post for details. Link to comment
Carlos-Sz Posted March 31, 2013 Author Share Posted March 31, 2013 Version 2.0 is out: Just Now category Keyword justn for faster access Hotkey for Just Now category Support for Alleyoop workflow See initial post for details. Link to comment
Carlos-Sz Posted April 9, 2013 Author Share Posted April 9, 2013 Version 3.0 is out: Auto path Improved favorites sorting Improved recent items filter Alleyoop 2.0 support See initial post for details including the new Auto Path feature. twinpeaks and Jono 2 Link to comment
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