#Alfred 5 Powerpack license#

Personally, I recommend the 'Mega Supporter' license that way, you get free updates for life I am completely satisfied with my purchase. For example: I use Quick Look to see how large a file/folder is, the last time I used it, etc.Īlfred is all about saving extra steps, simplifying, and speeding up. It's a small thing, but I can't imagine Alfred without it. Quick Look is incredibly handy for file results and File Navigation. Finder can take a good 15 seconds to load folder contents Alfred takes less than a second, always. For example: I use File Navigation for Save dialogs. I use it whenever I want to navigate folders quickly to grab what I need. For example: I use snippets to hold my 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet' dummy text, which I use when I develop websites.įile Navigation is always faster than Finder.

If I can't remember the URL I copied a few minutes ago, Alfred is happy to help. If I want to copy 4 different items and paste them in a different order, I can do that.

#Alfred 5 Powerpack full#

For example: I use a workflow full of hotkeys to launch my favorite apps (e.g. Command-Option-Control-S opens the Safari, Command-Option-Control-P opens Pages, Command-Option-Control-R opens Pixelmator, etc.)Ĭlipboard history and snippets are one of my favorite features. Even if you don't want to make them yourself, there are hundreds of free workflows available on these forums. Do you guys think the Powerpack is worth the money? You can then drag and drop them to reorder them.Ĭreate custom searches for your favourite websites that aren't part of Alfred's default web searches, or create fallback triggers in workflows for actions like 'Show definition for '.I am new to Alfred. Use the + button to add web searches, custom searches and workflow triggers. You can change your fallback searches in Alfred's preferences under Features > Default Results, where you'll see a 'Fallback Results' button. Here are my fallback searches Google, Wikipedia, YouTube and Amazon are default web searches, while the Alfred Forum is a custom search and the Dictionary is a Fallback Trigger. If you're a Powerpack user, you can customise these to your favourite sites or actions instead.

The default fallback searches are Google, Wikipedia and Amazon, as these are the most commonly used web searches. There IS an even quicker way to search your most-used sites: Fallback searches.įallback searches are the list of search options you see when you search for a keyword that doesn't match a result on your local Mac. The usual way to do this would be to type 'wiki' followed by your search term to launch the relevant Wikipedia page, or type 'youtube' to search YouTube. Sometimes, you need to do a quick web search. There's something almost magical about Alfred learning to predict the result you want most when you type a few characters It's the perfect and easy way to search for apps, folders, contacts and other results that live on your Mac.