![]() I currently use the Alfred macOS dark theme, and under “Options” I checked the “Hide hat on Alfred window” to keep it clean and minimal, I choose 5 visible result items and I choose to show Alfred on default screen because I have multiple monitors, and that is how I basically use the free version of Alfred. If I type “clipboard” and press enter, the text in my clipboard will be saved in a new file on my desktop. AutomatorĪnother great thing you can do is create your own application using Automator, a free app that comes in every single Mac, and using Alfred, you can run the application using the command bar. For example, I open up my Google Photos album a lot to upload all your super positive comments □, all I did was paste the URL without the query in curly brackets. Pro tip: Search for a giphy icon with google images, drag it to dropzone, a free app i talked about before, then go back to Alfred and drag the icon and then just click save.Īlso, you can choose to just open the URL directly without performing a search. Title type “Giphy” and the keyword you can just type “gif”.For the “Encode spaces as” field, input the character the website uses instead of space, in this example is a hyphen (this depends on the website you’re creating a custom search for).Copy the URL in the address bar, go back to Alfred, click into “Add Custom Search”, paste the search URL. ![]() Let’s use Giphy as an example and search for some gifs. My tip here is to shorten the keyword of the most common ones, youtube I have as yt, double click on google and change it to “g”, maps to “m”, and I have translate as “tran”. Moving over to Web Search, everything is enabled by default and this is where you can type the keyword and perform the search immediately. The 3 commands I use the most frequently are: empty trash, lock, and restart. System preferencesįor me, I uncheck all the volume related ones, because I use my keyboard for those. ![]() This actually works for apps as well and although most can be found in the default applications folder, for some standalone products like Google Chat, they’re in a separate location. Pro tip: Let’s say you’re searching for a file, if you want to know where this is instead of opening it, you can hold down CMD+ENTER, and this will show the location of that file. In the Navigation tab I uncheck the 2 shortcuts, because I don’t want to use the command bar for folder navigation, I just want to open the folder or document, and I don’t change anything under buffer and advanced tabs. If I check the “Images” option, and I type the exact same thing, it will show no results. For example, if I type “portugal”, the images show up.I don’t want to show emails, contacts, calendar, bookmarks, history, and messages, but I do want files like images. And you do this by pressing CMD+Space, Space. This tab controls how you search for files on your Macbook. I don’t use Apple contacts, but if you do, you can keep the “Contacts” checked. This tab controls what you see with just 1 command space, and that’s why I intentionally don’t check any of the extras file types, for example if I type “Downloads” in Alfred, nothing comes up, but with “Folders” checked, the download folder will appear.Īnd the reason I keep these extras unchecked is because I want to access these file types using CMD+Space,Space. CMD+Space, CMD+comma, to open up Alfred preferences.For example, “yt” for youtube, and I can open up the search results in my default browser I can open any document or folder I know the name of I can open any app I want or run system processes, like empty trash for example I mainly use the Alfred Command Bar in 4 ways Then under your general preferences, it’s important to note that Alfred will use whatever default browser you have by default. In your keyboard settings, go to shortcuts > spotlight, and uncheck these two options: “Show Spotlight search” and “Show Finder search window”, because you’ll have the Alfred hotkey set to command+space. If you want an even deeper dive into Alfred check out this video from The Productivity Shop.A free alternative to Alfred's clipboard manager is Maccy. ![]() It's weird how a free app can completely change the way you use an entire operating system.
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