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giovannicoppola / alfred-readwise

An Alfred Workflow for your Readwise account
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Closed nasteffe closed 1 year ago

nasteffe commented 1 year ago

Thank you for putting together this workflow! I was hoping something like this existed for Alfred.

What stands out to me, however, is how much text I want to read for each highlight, far more than exists on each line, simply to bring it back to mind. I could hit the return key and then read it in large type, but then escaping from the large type would not bring me back to the highlights list. I naively tried quicklook (despite each highlight not being its own file), but no luck. Any suggestions?

giovannicoppola commented 1 year ago

great idea!! I added this option (Shift-Enter). Let me know if it works! https://github.com/giovannicoppola/alfred-readwise/releases/download/v0.2.1/alfred-readwise_0.2.1.alfredworkflow

nasteffe commented 1 year ago

Wow, thank you for being so responsive! I'm afraid that the Alfred is still closing for me, even though the Window Behavior is set to Alfred not closing after actioning.

giovannicoppola commented 1 year ago

? after Shift-enter and Esc to close the large text? It seems to work fine

nasteffe commented 1 year ago

Then I must have something that's getting in the way. I will keep tinkering until I find it. Thank you for adding that in!

giovannicoppola commented 1 year ago

you downloaded the workflow again and updated it, right?

nasteffe commented 1 year ago

Yes, I deleted the old one and reinstalled the new one.

nasteffe commented 1 year ago

Ok, I tracked down my problem. I had the "auto hide alfred when showing large type" setting checked. If I'm using large type directly within alfred, then the alfred reappears. But apparently leaving it checked and then using large type in a workflow led to the alfred search window not reappearing.

I unchecked the setting and your workflow worked wonderfully. Thanks!

nasteffe commented 1 year ago

Recognizing I closed this already, I had an additional, though related, question. Would it be possible to use the Quicklook feature with the Readwise highlights? I tried to initiate it, but nothing came up. If that feature could be added to this workflow, then it would make it even easier to see the complete highlights while scrolling through them.

giovannicoppola commented 1 year ago

thanks @nasteffe we would need to create an image for each highlight. I tried it here. two possible problems with this: 1) it takes a while to generate all the files, if there are many new highlights (I could make it optional) 2) not sure it works for very long highlights (could make the font size customizable). let me know what you think!

giovannicoppola commented 1 year ago

@nasteffe curious if you had a chance to review the new version?