Introduction

Yet another alfred-pinboard workflow. It provides INSTANT pinboard search and the following function.

• search pinboard (pba) - supports various search condition such as or(|), and( ), and not(-)
• search tag : Type pba #
• search untagged entries : Type pba # :
• search pinboard memo (pbmemo)
• show starred bookmark (pbs)
• browse and search history (pbhis)

• browse launch history (pblog)

• goto or delete the searched bookmark

• copy url of the searched bookmark
• send url to pocket
• mark or unmark the favorite bookmark

Installation

1. Download and Install alfred-pinboard Workflow

   • You need to set short-key manually

2. pbauth username:TOKEN <- set access token

   • Get it from https://pinboard.in/settings/password
3. pbreload - loads latest bookmarks and memo from pinboard.in
4. search with pba, pbmemo, pbl, and pbu command

• (optional) pbauthpocket

  • needed only if you want to send URL to pocket

• (optional) install cron job : for faster searching without pbreload

  • download it from pinboard-download.py
  • chmod a+x pinboard-download.py

  • register script in crontab using crontab -e

    */15 * * * * /path/to/pinboard-download.py > /dev/null 2>&1

Command

• pba query : search query from title, description and tags
• pbnote query : search query from pinboard notes
• pbu query : search query from description(title) in unread list
• pbl query : search query from link
• pbs query : search query from starred bookmarks

• pba # query : search tag list. You can autocomplete it by pressing tab or enter

• pbhis : show search history

• pblog : show launch history

• pbreload : loads latest bookmarks from pinboard.in

• pbauth username:token : Set pinboard authentication token (optional)

• pbauthpocket : Pocket authentication (optional)

Search Condition

• - before search word stands for not ex) -program
• stands for and query ex) python alfred
• | stands for or query ex) python|alfred
• and query is evaluated first, than or query is processed

special keys

• # : select tag
• ^ : sort option (^a title ascending, ^z title descending, ^d time ascending, ^l last accessed time)

Keys

You need to set it manually because of alfred restriction

• ctl-shift-cmd-p : launch pba
• ctl-shift-cmd-c : launch pba #
• ctl-shift-cmd-n : launch pbnote
• ctl-shift-cmd-s : launch pbs
• ctl-shift-cmd-h : launch pbhis
• ctl-shift-cmd-l : launch pblog

Action

• enter to open the selected url in the browser
• Hold cmd while selecting a bookmark to copy it’s url to clipboard
• Hold alt while selecting to delete a bookmark from your pinboard
• Hold ctrl while selecting a bookmark to mark or unmark it
• Hold shift while selecting to send URL to pocket. You need to set auth_token using pbauthpocket