Markdown Notes help to manage Markdown files in a directory with powerful full text search (supports & and |), tag search or search for todos ( - [ ] or * [ ]) . It also allows to quickly create new notes based on custom templates.

Typora is set up in Alfred Workflow as preferred Markdown editor but it is possible to use another MD Editor or Text Editor if required. To use another Editor it is required to define the Editor in the worklow steps at the end of the WF.

To get MD Notes to work properly it is required to define some environment variables by using the setup wizard .mdconfig or change the settings in Alfred Workflow Preferences: [X] top right corner.

Variables marked with * are required for running MD Notes properly, the others are optional and can be ignored.

• Path to Notes * (path_to_notes): The path where markdown files store will be stored. The path needs to be relative to your home directory e.g. your notes are stored in /Users/yourname/Dropbox/Notes then the path to add to the configuration will look like /Dropbox/Notes
• Default Template * (default_template): The file that will be used as default Template. Before templates can be used it is required to create the template.md e.g. Template.md (see Working with Templates)
• Default Date Format (default_date_format): Defines date format when creating new notes or when using placeholders in templates: {date} e.g. %d.%m.%Y %H.%M
• Extension * (ext): The md files are text files with a specific extension (usually .txtor .md) any other extension can be defined if required.
  Note: The files must be type text files.
• URL scheme (url_scheme): I figured out that some web application like Todoist are using web interface where, due to OS resctrictions, file paths cannot be opened. To work around this URL scheme can be configured to open the note in markdown editor or viewer, e.g. Marked or iA Writer. Add URL Scheme like x-writer://create?file= and after file= will be enhanced with the MD Note path when executed.
• Template Tag (template_tag): The template tag defines which #Tagname) defines a Template. Once you created a template just add template tag name to the MD Note and it will be recognized when you create a new MD Note from Template (see Create new MD Notes from Template)
• Evernote Auth Token (evernote_auth_token): The AuthToken for your Evernote Account. Please ensure to get non Sandbox token: Authenticating with the Evernote Cloud API using Dev Tokens

https://github.com/trentm/python-markdown2

pip install markdown2

https://github.com/evernote/evernote-sdk-python

pip install evernote

To use quicklook for Markdown files there is a QLMarkdown plugin available on git: https://github.com/toland/qlmarkdown

Type mds keyword into Alfred and get a list of all MD files sorted by last modified date. After mds keyword you can type a search term and text will be searched instantly.

• Hello Alfred search for exact match of the two words in MD Notes
• Hello&Alfred search for Notes withthe two words in the the text
• Hello|Alfred search wether Hello or Alfred in MD Notes
• Tip: You can type #Tag to search for Notes with specific Tag in text and using & and | in the same way than with text search.

With the Alfred search results from mds and mdt you can perform additional actions to the note:

• Pressing Shiftyou can quicklook the file. Tip: To quicklook markdown files formatted you can install QLMarkdown
• Pressing CMD will copy the Markdown file link for pasting into another app or markdown file
• Pressing ALT export formatted note to Evernote. (Not available in mdt) Note: Tags will be exported to Evernote as well.
• Pressing CTRL will delete the file and all associated assets such as images or other file types.
• Pressing FN will open the Note in Marked 2 or any other defined Markdown Editor/Viewer Note: The Markdown Editor can be changed in Alfred Preferences → Workflow
• It is possible to perform addtional actions to one or more Notes by proceeding with File Actions (press tab on a note):
  • Delete MD Notes: Same as CTRL modifier key but also works on multiple files
  • Copy URL Scheme MD Link: Generate MD link for URL Scheme e.g. [My Notes](x-writer://open?path=/Users/joe/Documents/Notes/doc.md)
  • MD Link to Note: Generates relative Link to a markdown document for referencing Notes in other Notes e.g. [My Notes](mynote.md)

Type md# to get a list of all tags found in the Notes or search for Tags (see Options as well)

Type mdt to get all Todos found in the MD Notes. The list is sorted based on when Notes with the todo was created (older notes first). As well you can search for full-text search in todo and use the modify keys (see Options)

Type mdc followed by a title to create a new MD Note with title. The default Templates will be used (see Configuration)

Type mdc and you get a list of all Templates in your folder: Note: Templates are Notes tagged with #Templateor whatever you defined as the template tag.

MD Notes uses YAML Fronter when searching in Tags. Therefore it is required to add YAML Fronter to the top of the notes, with the following format:

---
Tags: #mytag
---

Templates are a great way to quickly create a MD Note based on a Markdown template file. The Template files are created and stored in the same way than normal notes and must contain the Template tag (see Configuration) in the YAML Fronter section (see YAML Fronter).

There are two way to create a file based on a template:

• Via mdc → Create Note: A Note with a title will be created based on default template
• Via mdc → Template: The Note will be created based on selected template. After the corresponding template was selected, the title can be entered.

The MD Notes Templates can contain two placeholder values and will be replaced when using Templates with the command mdc.
With mdc it is also possible to directly create a note. In this case the default template will be used. The default template can be configured in Alfred Workflow settings (see Configuration):

• {title}: The title will be used that you entered when creating a new note
• {date}: Today's date will be used when creating a new note

Images can be usually added via drag&drop to the markdown editor, esp. with Typora. It is also possible to add other file-types by using Upload Asset for MD Notes file action in Alfred.

To add a file to a Markdown Note, search for the File in Alfred and then press Tab to enter file actions. Search for Upload Asset for MD Notes and execute. The Markdown Link will be copied to the Clipboard. Just paste the MD Link to a Markdown Note.

MD Notes provides the possibility to fetch pages from an URL and store it in a new note. The note will be created with the containing Page title.
In case the page cannot be fetched MD Notes create a note and add the URL into the note.

To fetch an URL use mdf and enter the target URL.

MD Notes can export Notes to Evernote including Images and Tags. Once Note is shown, via mds choose ALT modifier key and Alfred shows the option ot Export to Evernote.