Yes
I would be glad to even though this may not be the right forum. Excuse me for a rather lengthy post then.
My workflows are poorly documented and nothing fancy but since this community seems to consist of “power users” it should be straight forward to use and modify whatever you find useful. Also, I have no particular place to publish them but for now just put them in a folder on Google Drive here.
(The folder now added “Alfred” is a subfolder of “Project” which in turn contains
- auxiliary documentation and reference material pertaining to all my projects in a GTD sense, that is not part of
- scientific references in Papers or
- more general links in dedicated Evernote notebooks or
- tasks for mutual collaboration in Trello.
I can put whatever Alfred stuff I have and you want in that folder until better solutions are available.)
Here are some further explanations though. Maybe this may not be the best forum, even if it is in fact, some kind of “services” connected to Drafts that may be elaborated and any ideas are appreciated.
Problem
I am often in the writing process of several document or just drafting ideas for applications, documentation for reports etc. It has hunted me for years to streamline this process, have documents readily accessible to edit and as a Scratch Pad for Scrivener. Drafts is my all-time high companion but I really needed some “mirror solution” on the Mac.
So, here is my current setup for this purpose. I was even able to take notes—on the Mac—simultaneously with a Keynote presentation on another screen which surprised me, even though I made it myself.
Structure
- Dropbox folder for notes.
- nvALT uses the same folder.
- Scrivener Scratch Pad is also used for the same folder.
- Drafts can of course easily add stuff to this folder too.
- One general scratch file, simply called “+” and others with more telling names (e.g. always the deadline, if applicable, and a short name s.a. “2018-08-22 KI”, for a presentation at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, or RCE etc.
Drafts
In Drafts I have the following actions tailored for this purpose:
- >> +
- Append time stamped note to +.txt
- >> …
- Prompt for a file name (with current projects subject to change) and then append a time stamped note to that file.
- >> [title]
- Append to title.txt (or create the file s.a. GTD.txt)
- > [Note date time]
- Create a separate note s.a. “Note 2018-07-28 12.45.14.txt”.
- > [title]
- Similare to above but replace. (Careful!)
Alfred
The Alfred workflow “Drafts” (is one of my current 258 workflows under continues development until a Mac version is available) does more or less the same thing as above, but with more advanced options in that little nice Powerpac.
- ⌘⌥⇧D Sends the selection and Alfred window to a Reminders list Drafts which is auto imported in Drafts
- + [text] appends a time stamped note to the latest modified note in the Dropbox folder Notes, i.e. the default path.
- ⇧ forces the append to +.txt
- ⌥ append to current path (which may be different or the same depending on what I’m working on).
- fn File filer in Alfred to optionally set another current path.
- Empty or no text just notifies the user of default path and current path.
Since I got tired of clicking around and typing I recently created another workflow “Keys” which is simply a complement to Keyboard Maestro and TextExpander (allowing for more general solutions and integrations, even passwords, not recommended) also exported to the folder Alfred.
This workflow types a list of keys in the clipboard, with a time delay t between the strokes.
E.g. Set the clipboard to this list in Applescript in another workflow:
{{return}, {"q", {command down}}
Then press the (my) hotkey ⌘⌥⇧:leftwards_arrow_with_hook: for this workflow which will press return and then cmd-q, i.e. 
⌘q. (Maybe I will improve it to take a more readable list s.a. {“⌘⌥⇧E”, 0.2} with an optional time delay.)
With all these wonderful tools there is really no excuse anymore for not gettings things done (not at least for my computer)!
Greg, really sorry for this long post but feel free to move it or delete it all together.
All the best,
P-D
