SideNotes Workflow for Alfred

SideNotes is an app that keeps your notes on the side of the screen. Appears when you click a little bar or move your cursor to the screen side.

Alfred is a powerful app that looks like Spotlight but has far more features. Besides searching, it offers hotkeys, keywords, text expansions and more. It can be easily integrated with other apps and now it's integrated with SideNotes, as well.

This workflow allows you to take notes in SideNotes, create new folders, change theme, search any text in notes and use snippets.

Features

SideNotes workflow offers:

• keywords (commands) – most of them starts with sn prefix;
• possibility to define a global hotkey, so you can create a note with a selected text;
• ability to save current text (in Alfred) or the selected file in SideNotes;
• a fallback search.

Creating Notes

You can create a new note using sn note command or its short version :

sn note hello world

or

: hello world

Then, once you press return key, you choose a folder and it's done.

Creating Notes From Selected Text or File

You can create a note using selected text in any app. Or using a selected file in Finder.

Simple press Option-Command-\. Now you need to choose Save in SideNotes option. Then choose a folder and your note is created.

Hotkey

You can set a hotkey for this action. Then you won't have to choose Save in SideNotes action. To do so, open Alfred Preferences, go to Workflows, select SideNotes, and find Selection in macOS object. Double click it, and set a hotkey.

Creating Folders

To create a new folder, enter:

sn folder Folder Name

Searching

To start searching, enter:

sn search text you're looking for

Fallback Search

You can also start searching with entering the text you're looking for in Alfred and choosing Search SideNotes for '(...)' option.

Please note that this option is not enabled by default. It's available by configuring a Fallback Search:

1. Open Alfred Preferences
2. Go to Features and look for Fallbacks section at the end.
3. Click Setup fallback results'.
4. Click + button and choose Search SideNotes for '{query}' from Workflow Trigger.
5. Click save.

Choosing Theme

To quickly set a theme, enter:

sn theme

now choose a theme from the list, press return key and enjoy SideNotes in a new look.

Show SideNotes Preferences

You can quickly access SideNotes Preferences:

sn pref

Snippets

SideNotes allows you to use your notes as snippets. You can quickly copy note content by pressing a Command-Option-C in the Search window.

With Alfred, it works even better. Simple enter snippet command, find your note and press Return to copy note content or Command-Return to copy and paste it in the active app.

One More Thing

We've made a SideNotes theme for Alfred. Check it out here: https://www.alfredapp.com/extras/theme/He7aMCi2Rz