Thanks for the kind words all. We need to look at how a few things here work in order to get a better grasp of what the options are.
The first, and most important point to take note of, is that Drafts keeps its content in records in a database rather than in files.
Given that Houdah Spot is for file searching (I use it too BTW), it simply isn’t on the menu for working with Drafts. It is a non-starter unless you are planning on searching through Drafts exports/backups.
Unfortunately, it is a fairly similar story with Alfred too. It is very much focused on things held in files in the default results set options.
It will also pull in browser bookmarks if that option is enabled (under Web Bookmarks), but there’s nothing more sophisticated in there yet that would allow it to deal with Spotlight’s index and non-files. I believe that is a design decision to ensure Alfred has super fast performance and dumps a bit of the baggage full Spotlight indexing carries.
As has been pointed out, the nearest option would seem to be the find functionality built into Doctor Drafts; allowing you to search in Drafts - if you want to explicitly do a search in Drafts. This is possible because it has some Alfred workflow-based functionality that taps into the Drafts database (only ever read only access) and effectively allows you to search the content of drafts in Drafts. But the issue for you on this is that you have to explicitly do the search with that command rather than it being built into your search results … or do you? Well yes. Mostly. But maybe there’s a bit of wiggle room here? Let me explain…
Alfred does have some functionality called fallback searches, and Doctor Drafts includes several of these that you can enable. Instructions and details are available on the website. They effectively allow you to get some additional searches incorporated into Alfred’s search behaviour. But only as a fallback - as the name indicates.
For your use case, I think that you will also want to ensure that you have the intelligently show fallbacks option set (bottom of the Default Results options page). If it isn’t set, fallback search options will only appear when there are no local matches found. However, it seems like you would want to know about local matches and then if none of those are what you want, as seamlessly as possible, segue into perusing the Drafts matches. This option will make that more convenient.
If I search for the word “print”, that obviously gets a few local matches for me in Alfred as I have files and bookmarks containing that word. But in my results, note that I’m also getting an option to search for it in Drafts. So not the results integrated alongside the file and bookmark results, but an offer, as a next step, to try searching for it in Drafts.
This is one of several fallback searches appearing at the bottom of the listing (the options I have actually extend beyond the bottom). I can then just select CMD+8 or click, or use the down arrow and return key to trigger a subsequent search step, which gives me my Drafts (only) results.
Not the “perfect” solution, but we are constrained by the tools in this particular case. Hopefully this solution is close enough for you to get a workable flow going.
