My Entire Alfred Workflow: Supercharge Your Mac (for free)!

🎩 Alfred will be your new favorite app for the Mac

The free features of Alfred is more than enough to supercharge your workflow and change the way you use your Mac. The Alfred app is one of the best mac apps for productivity and is a must have application for any Mac user. In this video I go through a step-by-step Alfred tutorial for new and existing Mac users 🍎

TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Step-by-step tutorial for Alfred
00:45 Settings Changes for Alfred
01:16 4 Main Ways to Use Alfred
01:47 Default Results Preferences
02:29 File Search Preferences
04:41 Keyword Search Settings
05:06 Add Custom Searches to Alfred
07:33 Change Appearance for Alfred
08:14 Paid Alfred Features
08:21 Download Custom Themes for Alfred
08:33 Clipboard History
08:48 Snippets Feature
09:09 Alfred Workflows Walkthrough
09:34 Alfred vs. Raycast (my thoughts)

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👨🏻‍💻 WHO AM I:
I'm Jeff, a full time Product Marketer. In my spare time I like to tinker with tools and create systems that help me get things done faster - or as one of my friends puts it: "Get better at being lazy" 😏

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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Step-by-step tutorial for Alfred
00:45 Settings Changes for Alfred
01:16 4 Main Ways to Use Alfred
01:47 Default Results Preferences
02:29 File Search Preferences
04:41 Keyword Search Settings
05:06 Add Custom Searches to Alfred
07:33 Change Appearance for Alfred
08:14 Paid Alfred Features
08:21 Download Custom Themes for Alfred
08:33 Clipboard History
08:48 Snippets Feature
09:09 Alfred Workflows Walkthrough
09:34 Alfred vs. Raycast (my thoughts)

[hallenw]

Your knowledge is impressive. I’m a 73yo retired IT Engineer and being old and out of touch… I appreciate your channel. You talk really fast though so I have to do a lot of pause and rewinds. You have a great personality especially for a Geek. 😂. Subscribed.

[rahmi.digital]

Jeff is such a breath of fresh air in the YouTube realm. You're not only likeable and have tons of knowledge, I think you're also hilarious 😂

[alana]

Jeff, your videos have upped my google workspace experience! Thank you for what you do. Alan

[Richard_Barnes]

Having bought the power pack back a few years and only just setting up my M2 MacBook Air, this video was a breath of fresh air for me with many laughs along the way 😄👍 Brilliant tips; very concise info; easy enough to follow. Overall a great video for getting me back into Alfred with my 'Legendary' license I have now 😆 Cheers Jeff 🍻

[caedengoering]

YES! It's not the video we deserve, but it's the one we need right now. Please do even more here. I want to really optimize workflows.

[Sick.scks]

Jeff your stuff is GREAT!

Quick question: will Alfred help clarify hotkey redundancies? I have quite a few overlaps between Mac & Chrome hotkeys that are too numerous to try to differentiate.

[aaronmellman]

This is awesome, but I was really hoping you'd show how you use Alfred and Notion. I'm using Notion to store all of my AI prompts using your method, but now I want to be able to use my prompts across other applications. Keep up the great work!

[Abdullah-zlub]

I always refer back to this video when setting up Alfred on any computer. Side question: do you use Alfreds calculator or do you have specific app?

[TyWolfe]

Man, I've been using Alfred for a while but for simple tasks, I didn't know some of its other functions. I even downloaded most of the apps recommended on the 10 best Mac Productivity Apps video and it's a nice quality of life change. Love Macs and Mac OS . Thanks Jeff. I want to see that Automator video!!

[PierreMarkuse]

Can't believe I just now found your channel. Really great content, and I love the comedic bits.

[rahmi.digital]

Hey Jeff - hope all is well on your end. Just a quick one: is this still the best way to utilise Notion with spotlight search? Or is there a newer solution?

[fousay]

Hello Jeff, Any way you can make an updated video, also could you play around with work flows or just where you are now with Alfred?

[edeng]

Extremely valuable, I was having trouble figuring out the usefulness of Alfred compared to spotlight just by looking at the settings alone. Subscribed!

[AlloffroadAu]

shit using Alfred for years but only to open applications, you opened my mind..

[Senshiworld]

Started watching the video to see if I need Alfred and in minute 6 I wondered why I was still watching the video without installing Alfred, following through with the setup and start training my brain

[coughsyrup]

Barely 2 minutes in and I love the channel's humor already.

[darrenferony]

I don't go super complex with workflows BUT making simple workflows to open and set up processes that you normally go through constantly can be super helpful.

When I start a work day I have a workflow that opens every website and app that I need with one Keyword that I made with alfred.

To do this just go to workflows
-make a new workflow
-then right click go to ACTIONS and then add "Launch apps/files"
-Add any files or apps you want to open
-Link each one to the start of the workflow where the "keyword" is
-Then set a keyword that you will search to launch this workflow
-LASTLY HUGE* make sure on the keyword block "no argument" is selected

^You can set up workflows to launch processes for every part of your work day. This is so helpful especially if you create content because you launch processes like "Import new shoot" you can make your own workflow that will launch all the folders or applications you would need right away to organize media. Or have it launch a template file for a new video edit with a keyword like "new video"

It just speeds life up because you can quickly program the things you do all the time and take the thinking out of it.

[VictorCanasTV]

This channel is amazing! Always had a hard time finding items in enclosing folders and no with Alfred - BOOM done ! wow

[jyotibhushansingh]

This is the first time I was able to completely set up Alfred for my use. Very structured video Jeff. Thanks!