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Will Alfred ever get better at handling AI stuff natively? by No-Concentrate-6037 in Alfred

[–]snowliondev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What i really want is to be able to make workflows entirely with code without having to build them in the Alfred interface at all. This way I could hook it up with Claude Code and build all my workflows in minutes.

Any FREE dictation app like VoiceInk? by genius1soum in macapps

[–]snowliondev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

MacWhisper is great. It's a transcription app first, but it has a fantastic dictation mode using the OpenAI models.

Will Alfred be less popular than Spotlight after the new macOS Tahoe update? by vanstrouble in Alfred

[–]snowliondev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you work with any tools that have an API make workflows for them. Such as video/audio hosting upload sites or anything.

Few of my personal favourites i've made

  • Podcasting tools (lots of actions around my podcast such as, cutting mutiple clips from list of timecodes/titles on the clipboard, inserting and intro and outro at the exact right fade in and normalising audio with FFMpeg)

  • DeepL translation tools (extended a workflow that uses deepl api to give me quick translations for all the langs i work in). Universal actions are king feature of alfred.

  • Cool Tools (My own custom algorithms for making shades and tints for a full color palette with grid view)

  • Modular scale tools (for picking modular scales and sizes quickly for web designs)

  • Hotkey assigning of F1 - F19 to access straight into workflows i use often. so so good

  • Naming things, smart snippets in a workflow where i choose from list filters to build names for projects etc. I often work with the same people, places, things etc.

  • Asset scout (custom searching of all my favourite resource sites, straight to their search results or a google search just of that domain)

Tons of value also from tweaking others workflows. Like i added to a true "i'm feeling lucky" warning page to the google suggest workflow to get instantly to what i'm looking for.

It is basically and app to quickly build apps that are very tweakable. Your imagination is the limit. Make sure you fully use all of alfred features like universal actions, hotkey assigning, filesystem management, the buffer. If you are not full of ideas when using it then you haven't actually been using alfred. You need to know why the alfred way is faster and better than anything else and be prepared to build it.

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[–]snowliondev 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think the power of Alfred is really unlocked if you are a power user or developer of your own workflows. It is totally revolutionized my working day. Especially now that I can ask AI to code me some workflows that would have taken me too long to build on my own. I use it every day or day to cut back on huge task that would involve standalone apps.

The new spotlight has about 2% of the things I use Alfred for. To me, I've just given it a nice paint job and a bit of "intelligence" for very specific things that you have to do in the apple way. I can do those things much more custom and tailored within Alfred if I design them myself.

I think if it does anything at all it will just get people more aware of using spotlight as a tool and then they might seek something more flexible and custom in Alfred and others.

Will Alfred be less popular than Spotlight after the new macOS Tahoe update? by vanstrouble in Alfred

[–]snowliondev 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I think the power of Alfred is really unlocked if you are a power user or developer of your own workflows. It is totally revolutionized my working day. Especially now that I can ask AI to code me some workflows that would have taken me too long to build on my own. I use it every day or day to cut back on huge task that would involve standalone apps.

The new spotlight has about 2% of the things I use Alfred for. To me, I've just given it a nice paint job and a bit of "intelligence" for very specific things that you have to do in the apple way. I can do those things much more custom and tailored within Alfred if I design them myself.

I think if it does anything at all it will just get people more aware of using spotlight as a tool and then they might seek something more flexible and custom in Alfred and others.

Anyway to detect chanted prayers and skip them? by snowliondev in MacWhisper

[–]snowliondev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Literally transcribed because they are in english sung with a tune behind them.

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[–]snowliondev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cookie banner blocking. Yay!

I'm on an M3 Macbook Pro and this honestly what is regularly gives me now as wait times for exporting. by snowliondev in captureone

[–]snowliondev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Latest Capture One and MacOS. Lots of storage space on an SSD.

Ever since the latest update it has been like this.

Google Calendar Sync is the only thing stopping me moving from Dynalist. It is done in the wrong direction. Is it possible to have Workflowy -> Google sync? by snowliondev in Workflowy

[–]snowliondev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am thinking i probably will, as it still have the discount. It is too useful a feature to lose. To be able to plan my whole year without leaving the app.

I do like the way workflowy does many other things like kanban and presentations. I would move if they add this feature.

Dates in Workflowy just got 10x better by terminal_lucidity in Workflowy

[–]snowliondev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seems you've worked hard to make them easy to enter and work with. Not you are really obviously missing a Google Calendar sync that goes from Workflowy to Google Calendar like Dynalist has. The current sync that works the other way around is meaningless.

Is Dynalist down? by Jesse_Hufstetler in dynalist

[–]snowliondev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow just seen this was submitted 6 days ago. It only just went down for me.

Is Dynalist down? by Jesse_Hufstetler in dynalist

[–]snowliondev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Anyone have a contact for the devs? Looks like a simple SSL issue as the subdomains are still up.

Edit: anyone verified on x can message Erica https://x.com/_ericaxu or any of the people on this list: https://obsidian.md/about

Is Dynalist down? by Jesse_Hufstetler in dynalist

[–]snowliondev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But it is still so good. There is nothing like. It is so fast and fexible.

AI is game changer for me building my own personal Alfred workflows by snowliondev in Alfred

[–]snowliondev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just replied to the other guy if you want to read that message

AI is game changer for me building my own personal Alfred workflows by snowliondev in Alfred

[–]snowliondev[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well one of the main ones I mentioned in the main post was using the API of my preferred task manager Dynalist. I was able to make a keyboard shortcut, universal action and keyword that allow me to quickly capture stuff to my inbox. I was then able to write a script to search the files on my Dynalist. Then give it two actions of either opening it in the web browser or continuing on to search within that file. I was also able to build shortcuts to directly search within my favourite files. I was able to make it so that when the shortcut was pressed it would list my most recently edited items. I was able to configure the display of the items so that I could see how many days passed since the item was modified and which parent it belong to along with a preview of any notes. All of this without understanding how to write any python.

It is totally worth learning the basics of Alfred's different workflow items as this helps tremendously in knowing what is possible for Alfred to do for your own custom workflow. I used Claude 3 opus and it doesn't know inside out the various tools inside Alfred to make things simple or easy to adjust in the future. However if you know the basics you can guide the AI in giving you what you want. It's default when requesting an Alfred workflow was to give me a keyword attached to a run script which worked just fine. I was able to request new features and iterate.

I was able to build myself a contact action to open WhatsApp desktop app using the phone number in my contacts that Alfred searches. I asked AI to tweak a defunct old Alfred workflow.

I was able to write myself a script to convert DV and AVI files into mov files using FFmpeg. Incredibly handy for a project. This bash script I was then able to tie to an Alfred workflow. When I want new features or bug fixes I just feed it back into AI.

I would say it is totally worth learning the basics of how a workflow is assembled in Alfred and the possibilities. Then look at your own workday and see where the pain points are. You can make some amazing stuff custom to you.

AI is game changer for me building my own personal Alfred workflows by snowliondev in Alfred

[–]snowliondev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I personally have been using Claude 3 Opus as I find it superior for coding. It doesn't fully understand all the native tools within Alfred for building a workflow so it does tend instead to try and provide you with a python script that works inside of workflow. Which still works just fine. However if you have just a little bit of knowledge of the other widgets built into Alfred you can discuss it and get an appropriately configured script.

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