thelitigator

Another one for all you Alfred geniuses. Throughout the day, my desktop gets cluttered up with various temporary files that I almost never need to use more than once. Screenshots, one-time-view documents, and so on. I'm finicky about keeping things tidy, though, so my current system is that I have a folder called "Desktop Archive" that ALSO lives on my desktop, and I drag-and-drop all the files on my desktop into that folder whenever I notice things getting cluttered. (The reason I have this folder is that every once in a while there will be something I do need to retrieve later ... sometimes important ... and I have plenty of storage space so it doesn't matter to me if the Desktop Archive folder gets huge over time.) I'd like to set up an automation that moves all of the files on my Desktop into the Desktop Archive folder every two hours. It's fine if this doesn't run when my machine is asleep, and I don't care much about the down-to-the-minute scheduling. Any system that dropped the Desktop files into the Desktop Archive folder periodically throughout my working day would be fine with me. My question is: can I do this through Alfred? If so, any advice about how to implement? Thanks everyone!

Hello all! Still pretty new here but posted my first question yesterday and got great help, so going to try again today. I'm hoping to customize how text is pasted from my Alfred clipboard (or on my machine in general). Here's the scenario I have in mind. I am constantly pasting blocks of text from pdf documents into Word docs. The problem--as I'm sure many of you have experienced--is that it reads the end of each line in the pdf as a hard carriage return, thus adding a bunch of line breaks in Word that I then have to delete manually. Not optimal. Also, I want the default to be to paste plain text with no formatting. Again, as i'm sure you've all experienced, other kinds of paste (e.g., keep formatting or match formatting) have a high rate of error. So, putting those together, I'd like to set up my system so that when I paste an item from Alfred clipboard, it always pastes as plain text and replaces all hard carriage returns with a simple "space.' Is this possible? To be clear, I would totally happy to implement a system where the paste function on my computer ALWAYS works this way. I would prefer to paste text in plain text with carriage returns removed all the time as opposed to the way it works now. Thanks in advance for any feedback!

Just made that adjustment, thank you!

That worked. Thanks so much for your help!

Thanks very much for your response! So, it gets even stranger ... When I used the snippet in TextEdit, it output "24-13-12" (!)

Hello all, first time poster here with what I suspect is a dumb question, but it's mystifying me. I want to have a snippet that expands to the current date in yy-mm-dd format. I have a snippet set up to that effect with the following snippet formula: {date:yy-mm-dd} The problem is that it the expansion is making strange random mistakes! For example, I opened a word doc, and it expanded to the date 24-03-12. Then I opened an Outlook email, and it expanded to 24-06-12! This is so strange! I checked and my system date and time on my mac computer are correct. Can anyone give me an idea why this is happening? Thanks much!