alfred-intend

(previously Alfred-Complice)

A workflow to manage your Intend intentions and timers with Alfred

• Setting up
• Basic Usage
• Known Issues
• Acknowledgments
• Changelog
• Feedback

Setting up ⚙️

Needed

• Alfred with Powerpack license
• Intend account (use this link to get a bonus third week of free trial)
• Intend API Token (available here while you are logged in)

1. Download the most recent release of alfred-intend from Github and double-click to install

2. Get your Intend Auth Token

   • in Intend, Select and copy to clipboard the auth token. Example: if the string is {"username":"johndoe","auth_token":"abcd1234"}, copy abcd1234 (without quotes)

3. In Alfred, open the 'Configure Workflow' window in Alfred Intend preferences

   • set the TOKEN variable to the Intend Auth Token retrieved in Step 2
   • Optional: set the POMOLENGTH variable (predefined value: 25 min)
   • Optional: set the TIMERLENGTH variable (predefined value: 10 min)

4. Optional: Setup a hotkey to launch alfred-intend

5. Optional: Change the keyword to launch alfred-intend

   • keyword currently set to !c

Basic Usage 📖

Most features are self-explanatory, briefly described below:

Intentions

• Add new intentions (remember to add the goal number (e.g. 1)) otherwise it will be entered as &)
• List intentions for the day
• Complete intentions

Pomodoros 🍅

• Start a pomodoro (default length set in Settings)

🍅 While running

• Check remaining 🍅 time
• Cancel 🍅

Timers ⏳

• Start a timer (default length set in Settings)
• Start a 'targeted' timer to the top of the hour (:00) or next half-hour (:30)

⏳ While running

• Check remaining ⏳ time
• Pause and restart ⏳
• Cancel ⏳

Limitations & Known issues ⚠️

• Pausing a targeted time will shift the end time accordingly (for example, if you pause for 10 min and then restart a timer that is supposed to end at 9:30, it will end at 9:40). Unsure how to deal with this special case: 1) not allow pausing for targeted timers or 2) calculate the new timer duration after pausing. I will add this feature in future releases based on interest and feedback.
• nothing else for now, but please let me know if you see anything!

Acknowledgments 😀

• Dean Jackson for creating the alfred-workflow package and for their incredible help on the Alfred mailing list.
• Intend's creator Malcom Ocean for assistance with the API

Changelog 🧰

• 12-10-2023: version 0.4.2 URL updates to intend.do
• 07-18-2023: version 0.4.1 sorting intentions
• 07-15-2023: version 0.4 (Rebranding to Intend, bug fixes)
• 12-04-2022: version 0.3 (Alfred 5)
• 03-16-2021: version 0.2 (Python3, reduced dependencies)
• 09-17-2021: version 0.1

Feedback 🧐

Feedback welcome! If you notice a bug, or have ideas for new features, please feel free to get in touch either here, or on the Alfred forum.