How to boost your efficiency with Alfred on the Mac

Alfred is an app I've been using for the last 5-6 years and is one of the most common tools I use on a daily basis to do my work.

Alfred is a search tool on the Mac, similar to Spotlight, but on steroids! Here are some of my favourite features:

• You can customise Alfred's appearance.
• Search for files and perform actions e.g. move or copy the file.
• Create your own custom web search e.g. search YouTube or Amazon.
• Easily open new tabs with the bookmarks feature.
• It comes with a clipboard manager which allows you to recover copied text from up to 3 months ago.
• You can create text snippets for things like email templates.
• Open your web accounts and log in using the 1Password integration.
• Run system commands like sleep and restart.
• Create productivity workflows to perform actions e.g. do not disturb, toggle dark mode, currency conversion, create Asana task. You can download many on the Alfred website.

Enjoy my productivity training videos and learn more about how to be more organised and get more done in less time.

[samer]

Been using Alfred for years but this is the first time I've had it explained properly. Thank you.

[richardvillagomez]

I was just about to delete Alfred because I didn't fully understand how to use it before I found this video - this is super helpful and I look forward to using it more! Thank you!

[satwikkansal]

Great video! Being a developer myself I'd recommend to be very careful about adding workflows by community / third party, alfred has access to a lot of system (like your clipboard, files, terminal, etc) so a mal-intentioned workflow can do a lot of damage.

[jemand]

watching productivity videos on 2x instead of actually doing work is the most productive I've felt in a long time. lol.

[timident]

Finally a concise well explained reason to use Alfred….. thanks!!

[patrickcras]

Extremely useful app that I have been using for several years opening websites and files

[moaliyt]

Thanks for this Paul. Love the no frills just content format and just subscribed.

[aljustiet]

00:02 Alfred is a powerful productivity tool for Mac with more customization options than Spotlight.
01:47 Customize the appearance of Alfred and change the look and feel of search.
03:30 Alfred on Mac has powerful file searching capabilities and web search feature.
05:26 Boost efficiency with Alfred on Mac
07:15 Alfred provides a clipboard history and snippets feature for increased efficiency.
09:02 Alfred on Mac boosts efficiency by allowing easy retrieval of saved email templates with snippets.
10:44 Alfred on Mac allows you to run system commands and create custom productivity workflows.
12:32 Alfred is a powerful and capable tool that can boost efficiency on a Mac.
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[danluba]

I uninstalled it ages ago because I didn’t think it really brought anything to the table. I just reinstalled it after watching this video and I already can’t live without it.

[vegetaiv]

Thank you very much, Paul! It's super helpful.

[CarlovanHouten]

Newbee on MacBook. Thanks for your video and explanation!

[VictorBernace]

Great tutorial, showing real-life samples.

[tspmcfarlane]

Really useful. You have am extremely concise and clear presenting style. Subscribed!

[philiporeillycork]

Great, quick and simple tutorial video that gets straight to the point and covers everything!

[Shneepster]

I did not hear or see that you mentioned, you must pay for the power pack to take advantage of many of the items you are teaching?

[dawgzuckerberg]

Hi great video. Just one stupid question regarding Alfred, so in the video that says Alfred can control Power, like preventing from sleep, screensaver, sth like that right, but you have to purchase an extra package powerkit sth like that....if no, then Alfred cannot do any power control right, thanks and good day

[HubertBland]

was a Textexapmder user on PC, but now use Keyboard Maestro. Would be interested in your views/comparisons

[mtpremasanti]

Great explanation! Thank you very much, I hope it will boost my productivity.

But I can't find a way to see the features in 2:42.. (The video says you should klick the right arrow, on keyboard maybe?) Anyone can explain?

[ZeeshanShaikh]

Hiya Paul!
Do you mind sharing the team that you were using on Alfred? I’d really appreciate appreciate it. Thanks so much.

[tylerhindmarsh]

When you searched a document at 2:35, after you typed the file you said pressing the right arrow brings up the extra options. Hitting the right arrow does nothing for me, is this a feature only with the paid version?