![]() ![]() I can’t respond to this thread without first pouring one out for QuickSilver. That was really helpful for me! (And it’s nice to know that if the VC funding ever makes Raycast go sideways, I can just port my stuff over to Alfred without any work ). And I don’t blame people for sticking with it. Like I’ve said a few times, Alfred doesn’t need to prove itself. “Growing up with Raycast” is probably why it seems so approachable to me. It was a simple, “Ah, I get it“ and I just started writing in my preferred scripting languages. It took 20 seconds to see the straightforward implementation of both 1) scripts and 2) official extensions. ![]() ![]() Yes, you can customize the look and tweak every setting, but I just wanted it to look nice and accept my custom scripts. Perhaps my current preference for Raycast has more to do with approachability, marketing, and/or the newness of the app? With Alfred, you can do so much that when I looked into it, I was getting into my own way trying to write my scripts. PS: I have made a post on the Alfred forums, let’s see if they’d consider a consolidated workflow repo like RaycastĪppreciate the feedback! Your post helps me understand why people like Alfred as much as they do and helped me learn some new things about Alfred! If someone is fine by using an app that might move to subscription model after taking VC funding sometime in the future (like 1Password), I would not wanna invest in it, but to each their ownĮDIT: A few users above mentioned the Raycast workflows page, which I strongly agree is better and consolidated. I think it’s OK for a free product, but I don’t think it comes close to the Alfred in terms of feature and speed and community. ![]() They did say they will be making money from corporate licensing but of course, when something is free “You’re Not the Customer You’re the Product” Raycast is good with this with brand promotions and website sponsorships etc.Īlfred focuses on customer privacy and does not have any interest in VC money and unlike Raycast, which is free, but that is too good to be true. But their feature promotion isn’t that good, so most people don’t know about 70% of the features. That does not mean they are not well documented, they are. Most importantly, Alfred is made by a team of 2 people (maybe 3 max) in contrast to Raycast, which is a bunch of people (15-20 the last time i checked a few months ago).Īlfred does not market their feature well enough. You can use React and Typescript, but also use Python, Go, Ruby, shell etc to make workflows. Not sure where to run scripts from? You’ve got options: a launcher (e.g., LaunchBar or Alfred), a dedicated script runner (e.g., FastScripts), a general automation utility (e.g., Keyboard Maestro, BetterTouchTool), or even the built-in Scripts menu.Again, Alfred has great advantage here. (I did my best to set it up to work with Alfred as well, although I don’t use Alfred.) 25 to send the value 25 to the script.cw(to invoke your “Beemind Cranking Widgets” script).So to log a specific value to your crank-widgets goal, you could type With LaunchBar you do that by tapping space while an item is selected. On that last point, LaunchBar (and Alfred) let you send data to a script. If using a launcher, do you want the passed parameter to be the data point or the comment?.Prompt for data point value? (If true, you’ll be prompted to update the default value if false, it will bypass a prompt and just use the default value you set).No screencast because the fastest invocation (no prompts to update the default values) goes straight from LaunchBar to a success notification. I just duplicate the script and update the settings per goal. I also have a suite of scripts hardcoded to specific goals for even faster access. Note that this script requires the free JSON Helper utility. ![]()
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