Set default calendar (or change order of active calendars)

[simonrob]

When using the gnew shortcut, active calendars are displayed in alphabetical order. I have several calendars active, but one that I add events to far more often than others. It is not first alphabetically, however.

Is there a way to set a default calendar, or rearrange the list of active calendars so that it is sufficient to just press enter to add an event, rather than scrolling the list or using ⌘+[n]? (i.e., without taking the other option of renaming the calendar so it appears first).

[deanishe]

Is there a way to set a default calendar, or rearrange the list of active calendars so that it is sufficient to just press enter to add an event

Not exactly.

Alfred's "knowledge" is activated for the calendar list, so it might re-arrange the order of the calendars depending on what you enter. The idea is that if you enter gnew Beer tomorrow 20:00 a few times, Alfred will remember which calendar you added it to and move that to the top for that query.

So what you can do is create an empty event (enter only gnew and select your preferred calendar). Alfred should move it to the top of the list by default. You might have to do it 2 or 3 times.

[simonrob]

Thanks - I've noticed that this does sometimes happen. But then when I occasionally add a new event to the other calendar that one often pops to the start of the list again. It's probably this unpredictability that is the main annoyance, and I guess that is more down to Alfred than this workflow.

[deanishe]

It's probably this unpredictability that is the main annoyance, and I guess that is more down to Alfred than this workflow.

It would be possible to disable Alfred's knowledge for gnew. How well it works depends on how people use it exactly. I don't have much of an idea because I never use the feature.

Perhaps it's time I added user overrides to the Alfred library, so users can select the preferred behaviour for themselves…