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Alfred is a productivity app for MacOS which allows one to search for files online or locally on one's Macintosh. Features include hotkeys, keywords and file actions.

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Alfred: Workflow to reduce the size of PDF

How can we write an alfred workflow to reduce the size of selected pdf files in the Finder? So far, I have created a simple mac application using Automator. This application needs to be opened first, then select the pdf file from the path, and the…
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How to show 2do Lists in Alfred?

I used Alfred and 2Do a lot. And what I want is to list all the 2do tasks in Alfred, I've searched a way to solve it. Is there a way to fetch all the 2Do tasks and shown it in Alfred?
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gem install rb-appscript on macos fails / Alfred todo workflow

I'd like to install rb-appscript on my macbook pro running high sierra but it fails for reasons I can't tell sa@mbp: ~ sudo gem install rb-appscript Password: Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: Error installing…
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Using dynamic fields in an Alfred Workflow to create a new email in Mail.app

I'd like to add dynamic dates into my Alfred Workflow, but can't figure it out. This is what I've got so far: tell application "Mail" activate make new outgoing message with properties {subject:"some subject", content:"some content" &…
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How to use Dash and Alfred to search through Ruby Syntax documentation?

I've added the Ruby 2.1.5 Standard library documentation but what I'm wondering is how can I add the Ruby Syntax documentation to Dash as well?
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Alfred unable to remember my preferences and always does reset after re-launch

Alfredapp in mac cannot remember my preferences. All my settings would be reverted to default while I relaunch the app. I don't have Dropbox Sync in settings and I tried to repair the permission in Disk Utility, but it is still not working. I found…
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Strange issue in Alfred Workflow when process started with disown

Background I created an Alfred workflow to manage a local server script. It's basically a mini HTTP server that performs actions by calling particular URLs. This is what the workflow looks like: The script filter comes from a static XML file, just…
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alfred cannot search application

alfred cannot search application, only search web result. I cannot find anywhere to solve it. what can I try? my aflred picture
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how can I echo something without newline with osascript in `run script` workflow in alfred?

I wrote some script in alfred workflow with osascript(js). As we known, console.log will left an undefined after echo the log to stdout, we could not use it to pass the result to the workflow outputs like clipboard. And then I found I can use eval…
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Hide empty folders recursively, ignoring .DS_Store, etc

I'm attempting to write a bash script to hide empty folders recursively within the current directory. This will ultimately be used as part of an Alfred workflow, allowing me to hide/show extra folders in my default project folder hierarchy. The…
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Pre-enter a password in terminal command

I am trying to create an Alfred workflow that connects to my server through ssh without asking for my password. I tried ssh root@myServerIP ; mypswd and many other variants, but i can't seem to be able to wait for terminal to ask me my password…
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Struggling to reference cliclick (stored in the same location as script) within applescript workflow

I've been writing a workflow for Alfred 2 which takes a selected jpeg on the users desktop - inserts it to google chrome then use cliclick to right click and reverse search the image via google search. I cant seem to avoid having the user to put…
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Alfred Action to open set of possible actions

I have custom Alfred workflow to File Filter some folders of my choice. I have two actions - to browse with Alfred, and, with CMD modifier, to open in Sublime. I want to have an action where I may choose which program I want to open it in. I use 2-3…
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Alfred word to PDF script / workflow

I'm looking for a workflow for Alfred to convert a word doc to a PDF - I can only find one script that doesnt seem to work (http://www.alfredforum.com/topic/700-convert-word-document-to-pdf-version-16/). Does anyone have a workflow, script for this…
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Include a specific ruby version/local binary with a script for distribution on OSX?

So I've written my first soon-to-be-open-sourced script (an Alfred Workflow). I've written the nuts-and-bolts in Ruby but have been having some trouble getting it to work on the vanilla OSX ruby (script uses Nokogiri which has some weirdness with…
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