I have been using Alfred for years- or so I thought. I bought the field guide on a whim (it is MacSparky after all) and I’m very glad I did. I have watched the first 5 or so videos and have already learned so much. I never knew/understood the power of universal actions for example- game changer!!
Highly recommend it. Can’t wait to learn more
I have been using Alfred for years, but barely scratched the surface. I never really sat down to learn how to use it. Or I learned some useful tricks in the past, but forgot about them because I didn’t reactivate them. @MacSparky does a great job explaining everything.
I definitely want to try Alfred when the dust settles
on my current “organize everything” project. I currently use Keyboard Maestro and Hazel , but having a Spotlight like interface to run macros and other automations would be nice.
Once things I’m curious about is search. I heard that Alfred indexes files like Spotlight does, and I wonder if it can provide a more granular search.
Eg I’ve done research into specifying the category that I want Spotlight to search , eg “Notes”
or “email” but I haven’t found any syntax that works.
Alfred has an In command that supports string searches inside of documents. My limited experience with Alfred suggests that it’s better than Spotlight (which I used a lot). I use Alfred on local html files, and a very large collection of scholarly .pdf files, some of which are huge because they are heavily illustrated.
Alfred seems very responsive and very thorough (finding text strings in image captions, even), and the way the results are returned I can keyboard navigate to the doc I want.
This Alfred cheatsheet has been really useful.
I have a MacBook Pro 16-inch M1 with 16 GB and 1 TB, and I love it. I was happy with Spotlight for about two years, but decided to try Alfred after hearing about it for a long time. Since I am a listener of MPU, when Sparks released the Alfred Field Guide, I gave it a try.
I have only gone through 40% of the Field Guide and have learned a lot. While attending school to be an EMT, I used the clipboard history feature daily. I also installed the searching notes workflow and use it every week. I only use the text expander feature to fill in email fields, but it still comes in handy.
I love being able to type YT, search YouTube for something, or search Google directly from my launch bar. This is probably the feature of Alfred I use the most.
The course taught me to turbocharge the way I use Alfred. The price is too high for what it is, but I use Alfred daily, so in a couple of years, it will hopefully pay for itself in time saved.
Learning how to use Alfred makes me faster on my Mac.