Alfred

A customizable version of the macOS Spotlight tool.

Recently, I have mainly been using Raycast, which supports most of the main features of Alfred and has a better store, so this page is likely outdated

Snippets

Alfred allows the creation of Snippets, which can be auto-expanded when a certain keyword is typed. Some of my favorites are mdl for Markdown links and Emoji-completion (:emoji:). Some of my own snippets are shared at https://github.com/dnnsmnstrr/workflows#snippets

Searches

These custom searches can be suggested when Alfred receives a query that it does not recognise (Fallback Search). There are built-in searches for common sites like Google, Wikipedia or Youtube, but here are some of my own (they can be installed by clicking on the link):

Workflows

Development

Alfy

I mainly use this framework, as it allows me to create workflows using JavaScript

Symlinking

npx alfred-link Link current directory to workflows directory: ln -s "$(pwd)" ~/.dotfiles/alfred/workflows

Script filters

{"items": [
    {
        "uid": "desktop",
        "type": "file",
        "title": "Desktop",
        "subtitle": "~/Desktop",
        "arg": "~/Desktop",
        "autocomplete": "Desktop",
        "icon": {
            "type": "fileicon",
            "path": "~/Desktop"
        }
    }
]}
Modifiers
"mods": {
  "cmd": {
    "valid": true,
    "arg": "",
    "subtitle": ""
  }
}

mods: {
  alt: {
    valid: true,
    arg: `${alfy.input}`,
    subtitle: `${alfy.input}`
  }
}

Icons

Using workflow², you can search for built-in icons in /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/ and generate icon paths.

macOS icns

Using workflow², you can search for built-in icons in /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/

Icons for Apps
// in js
icon: {
    type: 'fileicon',
    path: '/Applications/APPNAME.app'
},

// hardcoded
"icon": {
  "path": "/Applications/APPNAME.app/Contents/Resources/APP_ICON.icns"
}

Environment Variables

const { VARIABLE } = process.env;

External Links

logo