Smart Folders for Alfred

Browse your Saved Searches in Alfred 4+.

Usage

• .sf [<query>] to see or filter a list of your Smart Folders
  • ⇥ on a Smart Folder to view its contents
  • ↩ to open the Smart Folder in Finder
  • ⌘↩ to reveal the Smart Folder in Finder
• On Smart Folder contents:
  • ↩ to open a file/folder in its default app
  • ⌘+↩ to reveal the item in the Finder
• .sfhelp to view this help file

Custom searches

You can also set up keywords to go directly to the contents of a specific Smart Folder. To do this, copy the default .sf Script Filter and use the -f option to specify the name of your Smart Folder:

/usr/bin/python smartfolders.py -f 'FOLDER_NAME' "$1"

where FOLDER_NAME is the name of the Saved Search whose contents you want to search.

It should look something like this:

The above example is included in the workflow, but has no keyword.

Third-party software, copyright etc.

• Alfred-Workflow, a library for building Alfred workflows.
• docopt, a library for parsing command-line options.

Both libraries and the code in the workflow are released under the MIT licence.

More Info

Smart Folders for Alfred is hosted on GitHub.

Feedback to deanishe@deanishe.net