Alfred

Workflows

• Automation Tasks
  • New Options sheet to configure and update tasks, available from Workflows > Alfred Gallery > Automation Task Options...
  • Improvements to the Automation Task updater framework, including option to automatically keep tasks up to date
  • Automation Tasks can now be added to the Workflow Palette
    • Enable in the Automation Task Options sheet
    • Once in the Palette, they can be searched and added to the workflow like native objects
  • Framework has been updated to better support internal overridable query input, giving more native experience
• Alfred Gallery Improvements
  • Updated Workflow Gallery icon hints in workflow list for clarity
  • When checking for Gallery Workflow updates, Alfred will now alter the workflow list filter to ensure workflows needing updates are visible
  • Added new option to sort workflow list by Gallery Updated which sorts by Gallery Updates > Gallery Workflows > Alphabetical
  • Avoid crash in Alfred Preferences' Gallery updater when cancelling the update during the initialisation
• Added new Expression Utility workflow object
  • Allows for easy variable and query expressions such as incrementing variables
• Updated Random Utility workflow object
  • Add new option to get random word from a newline separated string
• Updated Reveal File in Finder Action workflow object
  • Now correctly processes multiple passed-in paths, revealing all paths in Finder instead of only first path
• Accessibility Improvements
  • Overhauled VoiceOver of workflow object configuration sheets: List Filter, File Filter, Script Filter, Dictionary Filter, Running Apps Filter
  • Add + and - Buttons to the Hotkey Trigger Related Apps tab for improved Accessibility
• Improve Alfred Ubiquitous Search (? keyword) to include Workflow Configuration fields (by name or value), and environment variables
  • Search will also now match variable names used in input object keyword fields
  • Multiple keywords will also be matched if using the || modifier
• Updated Workflow Editor notification system, now made generic to allow for more than simple Alfred Gallery update notifications
  • Now shows Automation Tasks update available
  • Click to remove a visible notification
• Rename "User Configuration" to "Configuration Builder" in the workflow backend config, to better explain its purpose
• Strip irrelevant newlines from text fields in Workflow naming and export sheets when saving
• Remove automatic lowercasing of keywords fields in input objects on saving, allowing for case-sensitive variable names
• Tweak wording in Workflow Dependencies Management for clarity
• Fix incorrect component resizing when selecting "Reset to Defaults" in workflow configuration
• Fix text truncation when workflow configuration checkbox text is too long
• Tweak Script Filter config UI layout to better vertical align components
• System Command workflow object Eject All action updated to use Alfred's new eject framework
• Added option to reload workflow on popup in preferences workflow list, useful for when e.g. a symlinked workflow isn't automatically reloading on external edit
• Added new Alfred AppleScript command to reveal a Workflow via UID or Bundle Id, and optionally show the Workflow's User Configuration
• The Script Filter JSON action property now correctly overrides arg when adding a result to the buffer
• Update built-in Script Filter getting started workflow with improved descriptions and notes
• The Script Filter keyword is now set as environment alfred_workflow_keyword on running a script to complement || multiple keywords
• The Workflow Editor now writes a sorted history of selected workflow UIDs to history.json in Alfred's application support folder, ordered latest selected workflow first
• Prefabs with a single item now correctly open the workflow configuration when the option to "Show Configuration Sheet for Newly Added Objects" is selected
• Fix dragging Safari into Hotkey Trigger object configuration > Related Apps
• Gracefully truncate Workflow name and description in Workflow Editor header and Import sheet

Clipboard and Snippets

• Added the ability to QuickLook Alfred's Clipboard History
  • Select the item in the history and tap ⇧ or press ⌘Y
  • Works with text, images and single files
• Added new option to convert image data to PNG on pasting
  • Will result in smaller data output, but may result in loss of colour accuracy or compatibility
• Added ⌘O to directly open Files and URLs from the Clipboard History list
• The snippet's keyword is now shown in the default results when using the snip keyword
  • This can be disabled in Alfred's Snippet preferences
• Show correct default Snippet Collection icon when searching with ? keyword
• Update clipboard image import to use NSPasteboardTypeTIFF (public.tiff) in place of deprecated NSTIFFPboardType (NeXT TIFF v4.0 pasteboard type)

General

• Clarify the Powerpack activation UI, adding spacing and a title label
• Update Apple Maps search icon to match current version
• Update the 1Password feature preferences to link to the Alfred Gallery 1Password workflow
• Tweak file application cache to be more accommodating of alternative unicode spaces
• Change Alfred Preferences title bar error messages colour to system red to make it easier to see in dark mode
• Update build environment and targets
  • Significant code review and refinements, removing deprecated code, adding future-proofing
• Update mechanisms used for discovering ejectable volumes
  • Ejectable volumes are now discovered off of the main thread to avoid potential UI pauses
  • Eject and Eject All commands now have a placeholder result when loading mounted drives, or if no mounts exist to eject
  • Use new eject framework to discover removable drives to be used in the Copy to... / Move to... Universal Actions
• Removed deprecated Alfred 2 theme importing
• Migrate URL discovery and testing methods in Custom Web Search feature to update framework
• Markdown rendering improvements
  • Fix horizontal rule rendering in markdown when using macOS Ventura
  • Fix incorrect interpretation of URLs within brackets
  • Update URLs to use URL string when title is empty
• Fix 'bing' title to 'Bing' in default web searches, and updated to the latest Bing logo
• Update ebay default web search icon
• Rewrite keyword matching framework for higher performance and new features
  • Multiple keywords can now be specified in features and workflows by using the || separator
• Update auto-completion logic to only complete the keyword if the expected argument type is none
• Add back notes in the Contacts viewer using new authorised provisioning profile
• Tweak internal vector icon rendering to fix incorrect drop shadows, and increase performance
• Update the copied argument when using the ? keyword to prepend navigateto/ which makes for a valid URL scheme on Ventura
• Add additional settings keyword to show Alfred's Preferences