Use alfred to observe contents of "All my Files"

[BarthGrooks]

Hi guys,

I <3 alfred.

 

The feature may not exist but I thought I would ask

Is there a way to bring up, in the alfred window, the first 5 files of "all my files"

 

For those who are bigger noobs that me:  "All my files" is this thing:  http://i.imgur.com/OsJlXbj.png

[deanishe]

"All My Files" is basically a "Recent Items" list.

Pre-El Capitan, there was a plist file at "~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.recentitems.plist" containing the data you're after.

In El Capitan, you can get the list of paths with the shell command:

mdfind -onlyin $HOME '((kMDItemContentModificationDate > $time.now(-60m)) && (kMDItemContentModificationDate < $time.now()))' | grep -v /Library/

(This excludes files in "~/Library".)
 
Alternatively, you can create a Saved Search/Smart Folder called, say, "Recent Items", and plug that into your own workflow with "mdfind -s 'Recent Items'" or my Smart Folders workflow.

[Xiang]

I also really hope this workflow.

But I cannot understand how to build it.

[dfay]

@deanishe That command ins't exactly the same as what was in the recentitems plist ....it returns recently modified as opposed to recently opened files.

 

but 

mdfind -onlyin $HOME '((kMDItemLastUsedDate > $time.now(-360m)) && (kMDItemLastUsedDate < $time.now()))' | grep -v /Library/ 

does the trick (I changed the time from 60 min to 360 min).

Edited May 16, 2016 by dfay