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Alfred is an award-winning productivity application for OS X. Alfred saves you time when you search for files online or on your Mac. Be more productive with hotkeys, keywords, and file actions at your fingertips.
Loads of app-launching, file-searching goodness - free for you to download and use with no strings attached. Alfred is the ultimate productivity tool for your Mac. Get it and see for yourself.
Get the Powerpack. Discover the Powerpack, a set of incredibly powerful features, built on top of the robust core of Alfred and integrated
Loads of app-launching, file-searching goodness - free for you to download and use with no strings attached. Alfred is the ultimate productivity tool for your Mac. Get it and see for yourself.
Get the Powerpack. Discover the Powerpack, a set of incredibly powerful features, built on top of the robust core of Alfred and integrated
What's New
Version 2.2:
New Features:
- New debugging options for Workflows. Click the bug icon when editing a workflow. Debug filtering options available such as selecting the unique object you would like to see the debug info for, and error or full log info.
- New organisation options and filtering for workflows, with categorization. Available in Workflow preferences search drop-down.
- Copy and Paste workflow objects e.g. from one workflow to another.
- Added option on workflow list popup menu to duplicate workflows.
- Default support for Airmail.app added for creating emails with attachments.
- Option to use metadata for contacts search instead of Address Book API. Gives better word based and diacritic matching.
- Singapore added to the web locations.
- Improve Alfred’s knowledge sorting for fixed and unique filter results (e.g. a hotkey attached to file filter, or uniquely selecting the ‘open’ file search).
- Correctly detect and format addresses in the contact viewer, fixes issue where e.g. US address formatting wasn't correct.
- Clarify the 1Password advanced prefs for 1Password 3 and 1Password 4 differences.
- Add some Amazon web localisations for AU, BR, CN, MX, IN instead of falling back to amazon.com.
- Improved reindexing with option to delete /.Spotlight-V100/ for most thorough metadata reindex.
- Add back in touching folders to latest time-stamp to enhance subsequent sorting in Alfred (and Spotlight). Preference in Alfred’s Features > File Search > Advanced.
- Multi-selection now allowed in Workflows for re-categorisation and deletion.
- Respect alternative metadata names in app cache for better internationalized matching.
- Request contacts access on starting Alfred rather than first searching for better user experience.
- List hotkeys in correct order to match Apple’s HCI guidelines (ctrl, alt, shift, cmd).
- More efficient fixed font loading.
- Show contact suffix if available, e.g. BSc.
- Ensure that multi part surnames are found in Alfred e.g. Mc Smith.
- Nicer icon for the ‘tags’ keyword similar to Finder’s tag icon.
- Turn off smart quotes and substitutions by default for snippets editor.
- Better Unicode support for full URLs in the Open URL workflow action.
- Reset the iTunes XML patch cache when reloading the music library.
- Fall back to workflow icon if icon is nil in Script Filter (currently shows a folder icon).
- Improved rendering in workflow editor canvas.
- Prevent smart quotes in the AppleScript workflow action editor.
- Fix text in reindex terminal window as dot is no longer shown in Spotlight magnifying glass when reindexing.
- Remove non working Appsfire web search as it now uses AJAX and Appsfire are shifting business models.
- Remove irrelevant popup options when there is an invalid workflow.
- Update Google images / maps URLs to newer format (non subdomain).
- Remove (+) copy mouse icon when dragging fallback categories in preferences.
- Remove erroneous ‘Name:’ label from File Action trigger preferences.
- Improve reliability of multi-file buffer grid preview (actions view) on hovering mouse.
- Ensure object is correctly re-selected in workflow editor when resizing window, or showing the workflow debugger.
- Remove ability to use Dropbox’s Apps folder for syncing as this is still causing quirks for a small number of users (only affects new syncs).
- Remove window flicker when using the "Use Spotlight metadata for searching contacts" and opening contact in Alfred.
- Fix incorrect tooltips in workflow editor.
- Code refinement and performance enhancements.
Version 2.2:
New Features:
- New debugging options for Workflows. Click the bug icon when editing a workflow. Debug filtering options available such as selecting the unique object you would like to see the debug info for, and error or full log info.
- New organisation options and filtering for workflows, with categorization. Available in Workflow preferences more...
Requirements
- Intel, 64-bit processor
- OS X 10.6 or later
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| Downloads:99,685 |
| Version Downloads:2,907 |
| Type:Productivity |
| License:Free |
| Date:13 Mar 2014 |
| Platform:Intel 64 / OS X |
| Price:Free |
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Alfred is an award-winning productivity application for OS X. Alfred saves you time when you search for files online or on your Mac. Be more productive with hotkeys, keywords, and file actions at your fingertips.
Loads of app-launching, file-searching goodness - free for you to download and use with no strings attached. Alfred is the ultimate productivity tool for your Mac. Get it and see for yourself.
Get the Powerpack. Discover the Powerpack, a set of incredibly powerful features, built on top of the robust core of Alfred and integrated with OS X.
Loads of app-launching, file-searching goodness - free for you to download and use with no strings attached. Alfred is the ultimate productivity tool for your Mac. Get it and see for yourself.
Get the Powerpack. Discover the Powerpack, a set of incredibly powerful features, built on top of the robust core of Alfred and integrated with OS X.
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Abt reviewed on 25 Mar 2014
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Phantasm reviewed on 14 Mar 2014
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Electriclewis reviewed on 14 Mar 2014
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Jazzyguy reviewed on 13 Mar 2014
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Zo219 reviewed on 20 Nov 2013
Just sayin'.
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I use both Alfred and spotlight and they both have their places where they shine (even if Alfred relies on spotlight data) - not to speak the many things Alfred does what spotlight doesn't.
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AI_s reviewed on 18 Nov 2013
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YEEZUS reviewed on 25 Oct 2013
I recommend searching for some of the custom themes on the Alfred forums. Makes it look even nicer.
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Mac Os X 4ever reviewed on 20 Sep 2013
It relies on Spotlight data, so if you have Spotlight shut off, like a lot of people do because when you have several TB of data, it slows your system down to a crawl, then this application won't work.
There are many other launchers and applications, including Apple's own Launchpad, that work just fine and don't rely on Spotlight data.
What's the point? If you're going to rely on spotlight data, then you can click on Spotlight and use that.
You would think manually adding all your paths and telling it exactly where your application folders would work, but it doesn't.
There needs to be an options added in the preferences to NOT use Spotlight data, otherwise, there is no point to this application.
I guess I just have to stick with using Apple's Launchpad.
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(Comments are unre-editable because why would a MacUpdate commenter want to ever edit a comment? Crazy idea, let's never implement that on our site,
Yours truly,
The MacUpdate Corporation).
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That you've shut off Spotlight is the problem.
You could use something like LaunchBar that has its own index, but Alfred using the Spotlight index is a GOOD thing; it keeps it lean and mean and fast and there are ALL KINDS OF BENEFITS from it doing that.
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Spotlight is pretty efficient and I doubt the programmers of Alfred could come up with a better indexing mechanism. Also, if Alfred would use a private index, this would use additional disc space - and most users actually do use spotlight. Also, Alfred is so much more than just a launcher - because - it has access to the full spotlight index.
If you don't like this Alfred is the wrong application for you; but to give Alfred 1/2 star because it uses spotlight (and is more than a plain launcher) is the same as if you would give a spreadsheet app 1/2 star for beeing such a poor word processor.
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Relying on Spotlight allows Alfred to avoid slowing down your Mac.
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The Favorites Folder is in your account's Library folder. All I do is drag it to the right side of the dock and install it there. I then install Aliases of every app - or document - I want to launch. You can even add folders to create subgroups. When you click on the Favorite's Folder, it will pop-up a menu of your app aliases. Select what you want to start then there you go!
This is easy to use and it is built in to Mac OS X.
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Jef4 rated on 25 Oct 2013
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Elmer rated on 16 Oct 2013
Jacklarm rated on 25 Sep 2013
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Rohit Chitkara rated on 20 Sep 2013
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_alexis rated on 19 Sep 2013