Shayon Pal
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Count the number of words
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October 28, 2020

Count the number of words using Alfred Workflow on macOS

Many a time, when I write for publications, I need to constantly limit myself to a certain number of words. I also need to keep a track of the same while designing websites, or copyediting someone else's articles. I know that there are apps like Ulysses and Draft that monitor the same, but it becomes a hassle to copy and paste text when I am working on other applications. To mitigate that constant irritation, I decided to write an Alfred workflow and automate this task. I've bound the workflow to the keyboard shortcut cmd+ctrl+B. The moment the workflow is triggered,...
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October 28, 2020

Integrate Siri Shortcuts with Notion note-taking app

Notion has recently gotten a lot of spotlight within the productivity community as a prominent note-taking application, and a worthy alternative to the age-old Evernote. It is a great tool to build wikis about everything in one's life. There have also been instances where people have used the tool as full-fledged project managers or calendars for themselves. Despite, all the great reviews about the app, there are surely some shortcomings. One of the biggest, for my personal workflows, is the absence of support of Siri Shortcuts on the iOS apps. I use Siri Shortcuts to automate many aspects of my...