Alfred List Folders Workflow

This is an Alfred workflow written in Swift to access the most recent files and folders in the given directory.

The items are sorted in decreasing order based on the time they are added to the folder. The item is filtered by testing whether the query is a subsequence (need not be consecutive) of it. By default, the workflow is invoked by "d".

There are four operations on the selected item:

1. open with default application (default)
2. reveal in Finder (holding "cmd" key)
3. delete (holding "ctrl" key)
4. move to trash (holding "option" key)

The input parameters to the script, which can also be seen by running directory-lister --help in the workflow folder, are as follows:

OPTIONS:
  -d, --dir <dir>         Directory to list (default: ~/Downloads)
  -q, --query <query>     Query for fuzzy matching of filenames
  -m, --max <max>         Maximum items to return. If zero or negative, all items will be returned (default: 0)
  -i, --include-dir       Returns the input directory as the first item in the list
  -c, --case-insensitive  Case-insensitive matching of query

Installation

1. Clone the repo.
2. Double-click the "AlfredListFolders.alfredworkflow" to install.

Building

You need to have Swift installed in your system, then cd into the repo folder and run:

swift build -c release

This builds the binary used in the script filter and places it in ./.build/release/directory-lister

Acknowledgement

This workflow is heavily inspired by Recent Downloads Workflow. While that workflow has many useful features that this workflow doesn't have, the performance was sometimes unsatisfactory. I also wanted to have the same functionality for other folders and I wanted to have the main directory as the topmost result. That's how this workflow came to be.