Alfred Mac Integration

Vince Mitchell

Hello all,

I've created an Alfred workflow to integrate with Logos and I figured some of you may be interested in it.

The current version allows you to open a few bible versions to a specific passage and search your library.

You can grab the latest version here: https://github.com/vmitchell85/logos-alfred-workflow

I'm also working on being able to search your library within Alfred. Here is a sneak peek:

https://d.pr/i/YQsATg

Would love any feedback or suggestions.

Thanks,

- Vince

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Vince Mitchell

Well I finished up that search feature last night, it's available here: https://github.com/vmitchell85/logos-alfred-workflow

Eager to hear if it works as well for others as it does for me.

Hamilton Ramos

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1077218#Comment_1077218

Thanks Vince for the flow.

Does it work with normal Alfred or premium?

So not sure how to download latest version, is it the green drop down list button and then press the zip?

Thanks for your input on this ahead of time.

Vince Mitchell

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1077786#Comment_1077786

You'll need the "powerpack" paid version.

Once you bring up the github page you can scroll down to the readme file that has an "Installation" section and click the link.

Hamilton Ramos

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1077793#Comment_1077793

Ok, thanks Vince.

Christian Bongartz

Hi,

thanks for this wonderful workflow. It works really well.

Christian

Matt Gass

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1077218#Comment_1077218

Thanks for this, Vince!

This is a big step forward from my own simple attempt to use URL lookup without any script to clean the Bible reference.

I'd like to see the addition of some Greek and Hebrew texts and using a Filter in Alfred workflows to search and list resources to open in Logos, optionally supplying a term to use Logos to search within the chosen resource. Someday I'll make an attempt to do this if someone like you doesn't beat me to it. :-)

Matt

Arthur Ma

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1077218#Comment_1077218

Hi Vince,

the workflow works pretty well, thank you for the sharing.

meanwhile, is it possible to add "copy/paste" function into the workflow, so that one may search a passage or ranges and at the same time the searched passage being copy into clipboard for paste into word document without leaving the workflow.

Thank you for the help.

arthur ma

Chris Moore

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1077793#Comment_1077793

This is superb! Many thanks indeed!

Eric Louw

Any way to get it to copy a verse to the clipboard? Maybe with the cmd modifier? I used to do this through youversion suggest for alfred, but I've had difficulty getting it to copy lately.

Vince Mitchell

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1177394#Comment_1177394

I do not think this is possible. Logos uses a sqlite database to keep track of resources, which is what I use for searching resources. I then use what is called "deep links" to get Logos to open Resources and Passages. Once i've handed the request off via a "deep link" I can no longer interact with it.

If Logos adds any AppleScript hooks then I would be able to do more, but at this time I'm not sure of a method to do any copy/paste.

Eric Louw

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1177440#Comment_1177440

Yeah, I suspected that may be the case.

My use of lopen doesn't seem to find or recognize many of my resources. Is this as intended?

Vince Mitchell

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1177459#Comment_1177459

Hmm... I know we may have difference resources... but can you provide a few that it doesn't work for? I can try to test locally and see if it works for me.

I don't actually know if everything is kept in the database I'm using for the connection, so it's possible Logos stores some data elsewhere.

Eric Louw

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1177462#Comment_1177462

Here are two grammar resources not recognized.

Vince Mitchell

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1177474#Comment_1177474

Unfortunately, I don't have either of those.

The database is located here:

/Users/[USER NAME]/Library/Application Support/Logos4/Data/[ONLY FOLDER THERE]/LibraryCatalog/catalog.db

I look only in the records table and in the following columns when attempting to open:

Title
UserTitle
UserAbbreviatedTitle
AbbreviatedTitle
ResourceId

If you wanted to search in that file and see if those resources are there you can use TablePlus which should show you all the data if you open the catalog.db file with it.

I would say you could send the database file to me, but I'm not sure there isn't sensitive information stored in other tables so I don't think that would be a good idea.

Charles Vermeulen

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1177478#Comment_1177478

Hi Vince, I've been enormously blessed by your workflow. Thank you so much for creating it.

I noticed with the recent MacOS update that it no longer works, are you experiencing something similar?

Thanks

Vince Mitchell

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1183749#Comment_1183749

I haven’t updated yet, I’ll give it a go tonight.

Vince Mitchell

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1183749#Comment_1183749

I've uploaded a preRelease version here that I think will work with mac OS Monterey:

https://github.com/vmitchell85/logos-alfred-workflow/releases/tag/1.0.0-rc

Please give it a go and report back on this GitHub Issue (or here if you don't want to deal with GitHub):

https://github.com/vmitchell85/logos-alfred-workflow/issues/7

Thanks,

- Vince

Charles Vermeulen

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1183776#Comment_1183776

It works perfectly! Thank you very much for fixing it.

Jeffrey Prowten

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1183776#Comment_1183776

Vince this made my day. Thanks for this!

Lukas Wurm

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1183776#Comment_1183776

Hey Vince,

Thanks for all the work you put in! its amazing!

As a german native I would like to add my own Bible as a standard version. Could you give me a short info how that may be possible to do so?

thanks in advance!

Greetings
Lukas

Vince Mitchell

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1267351#Comment_1267351

You will have to figure out the Logos short version of the bible, then enter it for the Preferred Bible.

You can see a screenshot on GitHub: https://github.com/vmitchell85/logos-alfred-workflow

If you can't get it working create an issue on GitHub and I'll try to get it setup for you.

Thanks,

- Vince

Charles Vermeulen

Hi Vince, I continue to use, and depend upon, this integration every day. It's a critical part of my work and a huge blessing, so thank you!

You asked for suggestions a while back, but this might be unsolicited now... nevertheless, is there any way you could add functionality to copy/paste verses directly from the Alfred dialogue box, without having to look up the verse, CMD+J, then paste it into word etc.?

I hope that's clear...

Thanks

Justin Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1267352#Comment_1267352

Vince,

Thank you so much for making this tool. It's made Logos twice as useful for me as far as I am concerned!

I created a version of this for French, a bit of a "frankenstein's monster" of a workflow (I am no programmer), but it allows me to get Bible references working in French, which is neat.

Thanks again!

ds. P.J. Kotze

https://community.logos.com/discussion/186597/alfred-mac-integration

I know this is a bit old, but your idea really inspired me, and I wanted to share that inspiration: GitHub Link.

Matt Floreen

Vince, this is extraordinarily helpful! Thank you so much for your hard work to create this.

Hear Here. This is amazing. Thank you!

MJ. Smith

Love to see others work like this.