* Clipboard history (screenshots on clipboard in the history is extra useful)
* Snippets using the date placeholders {datetime:short} for various file naming and email workflows
* Snippet shortcuts for things I always forget like the shortcut for → and ™ or my zoom meeting link that I paste into meeting invites
* Launching simple shell scripts by keyword
* Workflow for opening Jira tickets in my browser quickly
* Search notes workflow for quick access to everything in the Notes app
* Soulver workflow for using the Soulver engine in Alfred for doing quick calculations
I was a Quicksilver user that never quite got into Spotlight. I'm betting these days some of these workflows can be accomplished with Spotlight and other apps but Alfred has worked very nicely for me.
>* Clipboard history (screenshots on clipboard in the history is extra useful)
Indeed! As I mentioned elsewhere I've reversed the keyboard mappings for screenshots so that Shift+Cmd+4 copies to clipboard and Shift+Ctrl+Cmd+4 creates a file. Then I manage the images through the clipboard.
>* Snippets using the date placeholders {datetime:short} for various file naming and email workflows
>* Snippet shortcuts for things I always forget like the shortcut for → and ™ or my zoom meeting link that I paste into meeting invites
Yes, snippets are invaluable! I have tons of different ones, everything from various API keys, adding user accounts with SSH pubkey on Linux (while checking that password auth is off), outputting an ASCII guitar fretboard, setting up servers with nginx/php/mysql from scratch etc... Haven't actually looked into placeholders though, looks potentially useful although I can't think of a particular use case off the bat.
And everything synced through Dropbox of course.
>* Launching simple shell scripts by keyword
Yes! For example I often run "slack active" and "slack away".
>* Workflow for opening Jira tickets in my browser quickly
I do this as well! "<board> <ticketnumber>" opens them up directly in the browser that I use for work, i.e. "ticket 123" opens /browse/TICKET-123. Super convenient.
And for amusement I've created a couple of workflows to play different sounds, for dramatic and/or comedic effect.
And another workflow creates a new subdomain for a specific domain in Cloudflare.
Alfred is one of the main things that keep me from switching back to Linux.
Are you fine that Alfred can read the clipboard?
> * Workflow for opening Jira tickets in my browser quickly
Yes! Navigating JIRA is much easier with Alfred.
Yes, the data is not sent anywhere.
1. Typing something and pressing CMD+B will open a browser and do a Google search for that
2. Typing math works now
3. You can change your Spotlight preferences to not include files you don't wanna search on, essentially always showing apps (if you just want it do be an app launcher)
Alfred does a lot more than this, but for me these were the key automation features I needed to stop using it.
I’ve found Google has the best calculator feature, which supports complex unit-aware inputs like “6 gigabytes / (7.1 mb/sec)”. Even Wolfram Alpha seems to get confused with some simple inputs.
I do use it a ton for launching apps and quick calculations, but Spotlight can do that with a bit less polish.