Faves - Formerly Favorite Folders

[jdfwarrior]

Formerly called Favorite Folders, now allows you to set any file, folder, or application as a favorite.

 

A user requested this under the help and questions forum and i really liked the idea of it. I threw it together really quick for them but thought I would share with you guys as well. Not sure if something like this has been made already or not but, here is my rendition of it.

 

 

The idea is to have a list of items that you access often, saved in a list and easily accessible. Results are actionable, can be opened by pressing Enter, browsed in Alfred by pressing Cmd+Enter, or removed from the Favorites List with Ctrl+Enter.

 

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[Tyler Eich]

Great workflow! I made one small change to the 'favs' script filter (on line 10):

-- $w->result( $fav, $fav, basename( $fav ), $fav, 'filetype:public.folder' );
++ $w->result( $fav, $fav, basename( $fav ), $fav, "fileicon:$fav" );

 

This loads the the actual icon of the folder instead of a generic folder icon; it helps me know what folder I'm looking at 

[jdfwarrior]

ah cool

 

Great workflow! I made one small change to the 'favs' script filter (on line 10):

-- $w->result( $fav, $fav, basename( $fav ), $fav, 'filetype:public.folder' );
++ $w->result( $fav, $fav, basename( $fav ), $fav, "fileicon:$fav" );

 

This loads the the actual icon of the folder instead of a generic folder icon; it helps me know what folder I'm looking at 

 

cool, nice idea

[GamerChase]

Thanks, David. This will be awesome, but I can't figure out how to add any favorites to get started. 

 

Edit: Got it. 

Edited March 6, 2013 by GamerChase

[vdesabou]

I actually did the same kind of workflow but with old school ksh scripts .

 

I am using a hotkey to trigger your workflow, see http://d.pr/i/zEUM

It is working but I'm wondering if this is the most efficient way to do it?

 

Thanks again

[Carlos-Sz]

I did something similar but for any file or folder.

 

You can basically "fav" anything from Alfred.

 

I'll post it as soon as possible.

[jdfwarrior]

I did something similar but for any file or folder.

 

You can basically "fav" anything from Alfred.

 

I'll post it as soon as possible.

 

Great idea Carlos. JuhaT was the user that suggested this workflow over in the other forum and he had only mentioned wanting folders. That was the motivation for only providing folders here. This workflow could easily be modified to do files as well too. You would only have to remove the public.folder filter from the file filter area, and remove the specification to open results in Finder. After that, I think it should work for anything.

[Carlos-Sz]

Great idea Carlos. JuhaT was the user that suggested this workflow over in the other forum and he had only mentioned wanting folders. That was the motivation for only providing folders here. This workflow could easily be modified to do files as well too. You would only have to remove the public.folder filter from the file filter area, and remove the specification to open results in Finder. After that, I think it should work for anything.

 

I’ll download your workflow as soon as possible. It’s nice to have a kind of Finder Favorites within Alfred. Maybe your workflow should be part of Alfred since it provides a very useful feature. Thanks again for sharing it.

[erist]

How do you add a folder to favs?

[GamerChase]

How do you add a folder to favs?

 

I had the same problem, but here it is: open Alfred, press "/" without the quotations, then navigate to the folder you want to favourite. Then press the right arrow key and scroll down to "Add to Favorites" and hit Enter. 

[jdfwarrior]

How do you add a folder to favs?

 

To expand on what Chase responded...

 

This is set up to be a result action. So, that being said, find any folder in Alfred via the regular search method or via the file navigation, press the right arrow to display the result actions, and select Add to Favorites.

[anarchaeopteryx]

I love this idea because I always forget which folders I have set to hotkeys and just end up opening them in Alfred anyway.  However, running into a problem: I can't remove folders from the favourites list.  This was discovered when I added the same folder multiple times to the favourites list, which I could otherwise live with.  Any chance of a solution?

 

Thanks for all your posts!

[R4z3r]

I can't get this to work for the life of me. I installed it, I can browse using '/' but clicking the right arrow key on the keyboard does nothing. Not sure what I'm doing wrong here. Help?

[jdfwarrior]

I can't get this to work for the life of me. I installed it, I can browse using '/' but clicking the right arrow key on the keyboard does nothing. Not sure what I'm doing wrong here. Help?

 

When you press the right arrow, you should get a list of result actions from Alfred. Select the add to favorites action

[R4z3r]

When you press the right arrow, you should get a list of result actions from Alfred. Select the add to favorites action

Unless I'm doing something horribly wrong, I'm not getting a results actions from Alfred. It just stays blinking on this screen as an example. Nothing happens when clicking right, left, up or down. Turning on the File Search > Navigation > Use <- and -> for folder navigation works if I turn that on, but without it on nothing happens when clicking right arrow.

 

[nikipore]

I had trouble wth some folders until I realized there were in fact symbolic links. Is your Desktop folder a folder or a symbolic link? If the latter is true, dragging a symlink to the file action should cure the problem.

 

@David: Can you add the file type public.symlink to the file action? I haven't notices any problems so far.

[R4z3r]

I had trouble wth some folders until I realized there were in fact symbolic links. Is your Desktop folder a folder or a symbolic link? If the latter is true, dragging a symlink to the file action should cure the problem.

 

@David: Can you add the file type public.symlink to the file action? I haven't notices any problems so far.

 

Hey @nikipore,

 

I'm not getting any action on any folder anywhere. They are the actual folders and not symbolic links as well. Whether it's the /etc/  or /Library/ or the Desktop as shown in that picture, none of them get me to see an action. I haven't been able to see "Add to Favorites" anywhere. The 'favs' keyword works correctly as expected (just shows that there are no favorite folders.

 

EDIT:

Figured it out, by default my settings in "File Search" > "Actions" > "Show Actions:" did NOT have -> as a command for show actions. The default was just fn or ctrl. 

[jdfwarrior]

I had trouble wth some folders until I realized there were in fact symbolic links. Is your Desktop folder a folder or a symbolic link? If the latter is true, dragging a symlink to the file action should cure the problem.

 

@David: Can you add the file type public.symlink to the file action? I haven't notices any problems so far.

 

Actually you could add that yourself rather easily. I believe I mentioned in a post above that you could remove the filter and have it so that you could add files as well. Just go to the workflows area, select the Favorites workflow and in the top left corner, double click the File Action item and add the symlink item to the Type section

[nikipore]

I did it for my version of the workflow. I was referring to your workflow.

[sphardy]

FYI: Also can add public.volume type to enable network shares to be favourites - works well on my automounted NFS shares

[Tommy_Geusens]

I can't seem to delete a folder from Favs. 

Any ideas? 

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Tommy

[sphardy]

Use Ctrl+Enter to remove

[Cedric]

Hi, this is a great extension. What would really improve my worflow, though, is to have an option in alfred to "send to a favorite folder".

For example, I don't use droplr or anything because I don't use screenshots often enough.
But I do have a hotkey to launch the desktop folder in alfred, which allows me to execute an action on the screenshot I just did.

 

From there, I  use "move to", and alfred is clever enough to offer me to choose between recently used folders.

But having the option to "move to favorite" would allow me to choose only between the folders I systematically move files to, without being limited to the ones I used recently.

 

Thanks for your work.

Cheers.

[albertkinng]

IS there a way to intead of fav folders add fav apps? I really need a way to always have on the list a couple of fav apps.

[Tyler Eich]

IS there a way to intead of fav folders add fav apps? I really need a way to always have on the list a couple of fav apps.

 

Yes, remove the 'public.folder' entry from the 'Add to Favorites' file action.