Thank you very much.
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I did not realize you could double tap it. Great! Thanks!
Iâve been using Alfred for many years now and it is indispensable to me. However, it does look like Packal is/has been nearly dead for many years now. Alfred seems to be going strong with a loyal user-base and so I was wondering if Packal has been replaced with another site or forum. Also, does Packal Updater still work for anyone?
Anyone used Lacona much? I see it on Setapp and am wondering if its worth a look? I fall into the category of âspotlight does what i needâ and havenât branched out. But now i am feeling like i should.
Great episode, but I want to show some love to Quicksilver! It is still being developed at qsapp.com. I use it countless times each day for things mentioned in the episode - getting email addresses s and phone numbers out of contact cards, moving files, launching apps, opening bookmarks in Safari, opening folders, etc.
Just want folks to know itâs a viable option. Iâve been using it ever since Merlin Mann talked about it in the 43 folders days, and it has never stopped working for me.
-Eric
Thanks for pointing me to pacmax.org, @bowline . The website has a nice clean design but seems to be a bit thin on content. I tried looking for basic workflows for Evernote, WiFi toggle etc. just to check it out and it had nothing to show for them!
Just search the Alfred forums. Thatâs where the real action is.
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@MacSparky You can go back in your menus on Alfred, use the Escape Key to do so, itâs not as intuitive as left arrowđ¤ˇđťââď¸
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The guys both noted lack of use for Alfredâs Remote function. I had an older iPad propped on my desk and use Remote as an app and macro launcher. It has lots of different pages to match my workflow of the moment. In a way, it is an alternative to the Elgato Stream Deck David mentioned early in the cast where I have one-touch macros to setup workspaces. In many instances, Remote is executing Keyboard Maestro Macros that do the heavy lifting but are triggered from a tap on my iPad.
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Thank you so much for mentioning the km workflow to invoke Keyboard Maestro macros from Alfred!
EDIT: same for the tz workflow. These are very useful!
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Some great feedback here gang. Weâll be covering a bunch of it in the next feedback show.
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@MacSparky was wondering if you could use the same trick to use sub-search. Iâm not using this, but maybe using the option âAccess items via sub-search onlyâ would work for him?
If I understand correctly, if you look for something in your documents folder, you would invoke the command to your document folder and sub-search in it. BUT, you enter the name of a file thatâs IN the document folder, you wonât get it if you select the option above. Stuff in your document folder will not pollute your results when you donât go to Documents folder first. You could even set an abbreviation to those like Steven does with his bb for bookmarks or kb. Anyway, donât know if Alfred works like that but I guess youâre a bit closer with that workflow.
@ismh I am also using the bookmark search in Alfred and I am not using a keyword for it. I just checked the configuration and you can actually chose inline vs. keyword.
And: I think Iâd prefer a keyword, so thanks for sparking this :).
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ok, I listened on another 5 minutes :), so you already know how this works.
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Hi @Ajay (and bowline, thanks for the mention)! Pacmax.org maker here. I just came across this thread and wanted to chime in so everyone knows that Iâve got a Share page on the siteâhelp me beef it up, if you like! I definitely donât know all of the workflows out there, but Iâm always surprised at how creative people can be when I discover new ones. The Alfred Forums are also a fantastic resource, I agree!
Iâm pushing ~20+ more workflows this evening, so please check back again before long.
Thanks all, and thanks @MacSparkyâlong-time listener and fan; you actually turned me onto Alfred in the first place, I think.
All the best,
Max
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I have been using this Alfred email workflow for an entire 15 minutes now, and like it quite a bit. It is called email search, so it allows you to search by author, subject, attachment. But I am using it to compose emails. If you type em followed by a contact name, it will bypass the inbox and bring up a window to compose an email to that person.
If you have the âallow phone calls inâ your mac when your iphone is near, one neat thing to use Alfred is to make phone calls from your contacts list
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This sparked my interest in Remote some more. Going to give this a try! If anyoneâs interested, I just created a set of icons to give my Alfred Remote a little bit of a refresher. Iâm no designer, and the changes are subtle, BUT if youâre into that, here it is. 