Brett Terpstra (@ttscoff) of Marked 2 and nvALT fame asked about my Alfred-Pinboard workflow.
I started by investigating all the Alfred-Pinboard workflows I could find. I searched Packal, the Alfred forums, Github manually, and Google. I settled on the Go lang version here.
When I started using the Vivaldi browser I had to change the AppleScript in the Alfred workflow to handle it. Easy enough.
When I was asked about my workflow, I thought, "I’ll just export my Alfred workflow and share it", but I didn’t want to lose track of the original author’s work. That’s when I found the author is more of a BitBucket guy and had some updated code over there.
The short of the story is: I ended up exporting a hybrid of a freshly compiled Go binary with my workflow. Seemed like the best approach for now.
Get the "Best Alfred Pinboard Workflow".
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For Vivaldi and Chrome, I am using this extension.
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For Safari, I am using the beta here. It’s not super fantastic, but it does give me a single click button for Pinboard.
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For Firefox, I don’t have anything installed. I just fall back to using the Alfred Workflow above.
So, the process goes like this:
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Step One: Find a page I’d like to get back to: Hit
HYPER+Ito bring up the Alfred Workflow dialog. Tag it and go. -
Step Two: Use Spillo to browse, read, and manage all my Pinboard links.
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I use this Stylish style to make the actual Pinboard.in site look better. Pretty is good.
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I do sometimes use the search functionality of the Alfred Workflow, which you can call up by entering
psin Alfred. Somewhat handy, albeit redundant because of Spillo. -
If you are wondering what a
HYPERkey is, or need to get it working on macOS Sierra, read this first and then go here.