Tag: alfred
Create Dropbox Links from Alfred
I've always treated Alfred as a Finder replacement. The speed at which I can find and take action on files is faster than Finder.app or Spotlight will ever be able to do. Because of this, I want to have a quick and easy way to share Dropbox files from …
Clearing Multiple Notifications in Mac OS X
If I haven't used my computer for a while, I'll end up with multiple calendar notifications that I have to painfully close one by one. I went searching for something that would let me close them faster, but nothing I could find did quite what I wanted.
Nearly every day …
Show Last File Added to Dropbox with Alfred
To continue on yesterday's post, revealing files in the Finder can be very useful. One thing that I find myself doing daily is moving into a particular folder in my Dropbox account once I've used the Alfred "move" action or when a new file has been added to my account.
A Better “Show Downloads Folder" with Alfred
I've always used Alfred as a way to reveal my Downloads folder with the keyboard shortcut ⌘ ⌥ L, but that only gets me part of the way. I'm usually opening the downloads folder for a reason and so it would be handy if the file last added was already highlighted for …
Digitizing the Family Photos
I had this ongoing fear that all of our family photos would get lost or destroyed. I've always wanted to have a central place for all of my photos, both past and present. In early 2012, my mom and I started on a project to scan, crop and organize all …
Airport Codes with Alfred
Here's a quick Alfred workflow to get the airport code for a given city or the city based on an airport code.
You can search either by the 3-character airport code or by the city name. You can make your search specific enough to return one result, such as "dublin …
Create a Scratchpad with Alfred
I created a quick Alfred workflow that takes the contents of my clipboard and opens a new file in Sublime Text (or Text Edit).
Writing Notes with Alfred 2
I started coding about two years ago and only recently discovered the wonders of Markdown. Every time I'd learn something new, I would keep it in a text file with TextEdit. This was good and fine until a coworker introduced me to Notational Velocity. This completely changed the way I …
Browse Files on Dropbox.com with Alfred 2
On a rare occasion, I need to view files in my Dropbox folder on my computer on the website. The most common use case is I want to see the entire structure of a directory. I selectively unsync a lot of large directories since my MacBook Air has limited hard …