How I use Alfred.

[@justinlloyd-jones1658]

I am literally only 30 seconds in and already, I know I'm going to watch the whole video 😂. Love the opening. Here goes ...

[@neuropcs5879]

This was such a warm welcome to Alfred. I love the way you've described all the features whilst making me laugh throughout. Honestly one of the best videos out there. Thanks!

[@TheProductivityShop]

Thank you!!

[@lexmourao]

The intro is amazing. Also, Alfred.

[@FogLittleFog]

My last Mac was an iBook G3 Snow White back in 2002. As someone returning to Macs (kudos MBA M1) your video was a real masterclass about using Alfred for daily tasks. The production of the video is top-notch, and you are a good teacher. As a foreigner, I should remark that your calm pace and clear pronunciation made me enjoy your entire class with no problems at all. Muito obrigado.

[@TheProductivityShop]

Aww, thank you so much!

[@PatriciaGreen]

Oddly enough, I just watched your previous Alfred video two days ago. This one is much better. I got a lot from v.1, but it was too fast for me to pick up everything. This went at a much more usable pace. Good work. I've had Alfred for a while, but was not utilizing it well. Now I will!

[@TheProductivityShop]

Thanks for watching!

[@sarahFYI]

Yay! So happy you released this series. Alfred has become essential for my search stuff but I've felt like I haven't been using it to it's full potential. Really enjoyed this video, thank you!

[@TheProductivityShop]

Thanks for watching! I'll eventually make an Alfred Playlist with all of the Alfred vids!

[@robwhite698]

Excellent job. Definitely better than other Alfred feature vids. Thanks! :)

[@hexworthy]

Congratulations on a fantastic video, I have just got Alfred and this is perfect. Thank you so much for taking the time to do this video.

[@TheProductivityShop]

Glad it was helpful!

[@lekkerbusyrick]

This video is very clear and helpful. Also, your voice is great to listen to!

[@maaikees]

This was oddly relaxing because of your voice

[@TheProductivityShop]

Thank you!

[@MikeyGlazer]

Thanks for the remake! I come back and watch your videos all the time b

[@TheProductivityShop]

Woot!

[@MikeyGlazer]

@@TheProductivityShop David Sparks/Mac Sparky introduced me to Alfred, but you are the coach. Your videos are the equivalent of when somebody says you only use 10% of your brain. You make us realize that we're only using 10% of the app.

[@EliteSurfCoaching]

Your intro is so funny! I'm super interested in everything related to the Alfred app. I saw all your Alfred videos and I'm looking forward to your new videos with your own funny and serious at the same time style, I like your way of communicating to us how it is work. Congratulations on your job 🙌🏼🙌🏼

[@TheProductivityShop]

Aww thank you so much. :)))

[@EliteSurfCoaching]

@@TheProductivityShop thanks a lot for your time, energy and effort for helping us 🙌🏼🙌🏼

[@ekx5120]

Thank you! Fab intro, to the point tips. I had it installed as soon as I got my first ever Mac last month, but never really saw how it could help me. It's so deep, almost too much to toy with, I love it!

[@robinandthedog]

Great video again sir! I love your new setup and presentation style..

[@TheProductivityShop]

Thank you very much!

[@MrJasontm2386]

Thanks brother, this helped a hell of a lot. All the best.

[@timothylinn]

This is excellent. I’m looking forward to the next one.

[@TheProductivityShop]

Woot!

[@apostolis_23]

Great video and to the point!! Thank you and greetings grom Greece!

[@TheProductivityShop]

Thank you so much!!

[@CarlovanHouten1973]

Newbee on MacBook. Figuring out Alfred so thanks for your video!

[@TheProductivityShop]

Glad it helped!

[@jokeslife]

ive been waiting for more Alfred stuff BOOOYYYEEAAHHHH

[@TheProductivityShop]

It’s the same as the previous video but better quality

[@jokeslife]

@@TheProductivityShop yas but i do think we got one extra tip. adding files/scripts to default search. keep up the great work

[@Trapson]

This video was incredibly helpful, thank you!

[@TheProductivityShop]

You're so welcome!

[@mrjankeck]

This was amazing! Thanks for helping me get the app set up and running in 15 minutes!

[@TheProductivityShop]

Awesome!!

[@travelssafarisinafrica7700]

Great look forward to seeing more on Alfred

[@TheProductivityShop]

Very soon!

[@ancientcado838]

I *just* watched the original one last night. hahaha. Great videos. Thank you!

[@TheProductivityShop]

Thank you!!

[@CorkyBallasdancewithme]

Excellent video thanks for sharing 🙏🙏🙏

[@djb_tv]

enormously helpful. Thank you so much

[@DiegoKantor]

How do I search for only one type of file with a certain name? For example images on my computer with x name. Thanks for sharing the information.

[@TheProductivityShop]

Try doing ‘PartialName .extension’ (making sure there is a space between.

[@DiegoKantor]

Thanks! It works!@@TheProductivityShop

[@DiegoKantor]

Hi @@TheProductivityShop , Do you know any application to catalog files from external disks and then allow us to do a search of which disk each file is on? If it's free it would be great. Thanks! Diego

[@TheProductivityShop]

@@DiegoKantor I don't know a program that is free, but NeoFinder is what I use. It's an older program so there might be something better out there. prodshop.co/drives

[@KariposTheOne]

Great Vid!

[@JohnMacphersonAllan]

Thank you very informative!

[@ScoutAndMcKenna]

Just saw that Alfred 5 will be launching soon. Hoping you will do a video of the new features and how to use the new workflow editor. Thanks.

[@TheProductivityShop]

Hey there, yeah I saw it came out! I don't really build my own workflows outside of simple keyboard shortcuts but will take some time to look into it eventually!

[@gabsmoscow]

Awesome job, what a great tutorial!

[@TheProductivityShop]

Thanks so much. I really love getting comments like these :)

[@alrdye]

Great video.

[@TheProductivityShop]

Thank you!

[@JULIOAIS]

Congrats in your new mic. However, as soon you move your head a bit, your voice change. Did you notice too? Regarding your video, I love it.

[@TheProductivityShop]

Yep! It happens sometimes!

[@AndyConlin]

I'm not a designer but I'd still be interested to see a brief video of how you use your stylus as a mouse, and why you prefer that particular setup. BTW, I got the powerpack last week and let them know it was thanks to you!

[@TheProductivityShop]

Check out this video kzbin.info/www/bejne/inqraYSii7CCjKs

[@AndyConlin]

​@@TheProductivityShop Oh perfect, thanks!

[@FloydDiamond]

I find the app very interesting, but I miss one point that Apple Spotlight fulfills wonderfully: Spotlight also searches the contents of documents - which is very useful for my work. I somehow don't get that with Alfred - which I find very unfortunate. Or can someone help me?

[@TheProductivityShop]

Try doing "in" and searching a term.

[@lldanj]

Great video. Thanks! 😊

[@TheProductivityShop]

👍️

[@nares2005]

Awesome video 👍

[@RichardRegalado27]

Hi. How can I make Alfred search files in my Google Drive?

[@timothygraham8348]

This is brilliant! I'm a noob. I can't seem to get Alfred to show .pdf files in the results. Can you show me what I'm doing wrong?

[@paulasimma9236]

Howto deactivate the spotlight keyboard shortcut in ventura OS?

[@TheProductivityShop]

Hey Paul, I don't have access to my personal laptop right now and can't download Ventura yet, but as soon as I do I'll check it out and let you know!

[@evan5854]

Thanks for this! Which mac did you get?

[@TheProductivityShop]

I got the new iMac! It's noice!

[@rwkingi]

Great video! Thank you! Immediately knew I was on the right channel with the intro alone! 😂 🎉

[@TheProductivityShop]

Thank you!

[@subarashiiashi3894]

May I please get a list of the music in this video? Specifically at 2:05 to 2:30

[@TheProductivityShop]

Hey there. All of my BG music is from cordio.bandcamp.com/. cordio.bandcamp.com/album/hm-01 Ritual 5 is the name of the first track.

[@subarashiiashi3894]

@@TheProductivityShop Thank you, sir!

[@Christina_De_Melo]

I am LOVING this video series! Thank you so much! I want to spring for the powerpack, but I have one major gripe so far, and I can't find the answer to it on Alfred's help files on their site. You seem like an expert, so I'm hoping you'll know. I'm not sure if I've set something up wrong, or if Alfred just doesn't have this functionality.... but why doesn't it include Notes in the search results? I use apple notes for everything, and I love that Spotlight searches notes. Is there a way to get Alfred to do this too? Cheers from Ontario, Canada!

[@TheProductivityShop]

Hi there, glad you like the videos and thanks for watching! Re: Notes, from what I can tell, Mac keeps the notes inside of a database and not individual files, which makes it hard for Alfred to search. There do seem to be some workflows out there (PowerPack required) to be able to search through your notes database. I'd do some hunting on Packal and Github (or youtube) to see if there is a workaround! www.alfredforum.com/topic/10213-alfred-doesnt-seem-to-find-apple-notes/ github.com/sballin/alfred-search-notes-app www.packal.org/workflow/search-apple-notes

[@HJ-su7px]

you use wacompad as a touchpad?

[@DanielleRichardMusic]

I just discovered Alfred and I'm loving it! Question though, I use 2 Google Chrome browsers, one for my personal accounts and another for my work accounts. I want to get Alfred to open a search my Google Drive, but only on my school account. Is there a way to program it to do that?

[@TheProductivityShop]

Yep, I used to have the same thing. Essentially, add two "google drive searches" in custom Web searches, and then have different keywords. For my personal I would do "ldrive", for Luke Drive, and then "adrive" for when I worked at Airbnb.

[@DanielleRichardMusic]

@@TheProductivityShop Thanks! I got that figured out but when I search, it's still opening in my personal 'browser' which doesn't have access to my school account. I have to have the school 'browser' open for it to work properly right now

[@TheProductivityShop]

@@DanielleRichardMusic I can add a little AppleScript to make it switch profiles. I’ll try to post a video on it soon!

[@astrokier]

😂love the hovering post-🎉

[@WhatMACHI]

Great video! Any chance you might do a comparison between Alfred and Raycast for those that arent familiar with either solution?

[@TheProductivityShop]

Hey there, I did look into raycast and it does seem to have a lot of cool features, but I found it to be rather expensive for the paid version. For now, it’s a dealbreaker for me but I’m sure there are some good raycast videos out there since it’s pretty popular.

[@harryGAKOSSO]

Merci beaucoup!

[@TheProductivityShop]

👍️

[@BruceElgort]

Thank you!

[@TheProductivityShop]

You're welcome!

[@remihuber]

Hi, in Mac OS we can preview a document by pressing the space bar. Do you know if it is possible to show the same preview a file from an Alfred's search result ?

[@remihuber]

Answer is SHIFT

[@TheProductivityShop]

Woot!

[@janissilva6304]

You're my reference when I need to know how to utilize Alfred! Thanks a lot! The quality of this video and the audio are cool!!!! In the system options, what is the difference bw SLEEP and LOCK? À bientôt :)

[@TheProductivityShop]

Thanks for watching!! Sleep will put your hard disks to sleep, and lock will keep them awake but activate the screen saver that requires a password for entry.

[@snooby8156]

I used to quit applications with Alfred all the time. But what you can do instead is... You know how you command-tab to switch applications ? Well you can press command + tab, keep holding command and then press "q" to quit the application. You can quit multiple applications like this

[@TheProductivityShop]

Yep I’m familiar with that shortcut and use it a bunch, I like using Alfred so the application doesn’t activate and closes in the background. Both ways are great!

[@acos21]

Is the rose quartz there for decoration or is it benificial?

[@TheProductivityShop]

Both I guess lol.

[@travelssafarisinafrica7700]

whats new in Alfred 5

[@TheProductivityShop]

I'll do a video on that eventually!

[@kashmirha]

Great tutorial. I liked the part when you explained the tricks, you should jumpstart with those :) You know, productivity :D

[@TheProductivityShop]

👍️

[@iwilson16]

Great video! Though the background music was a little distracting (and unnecessary).

[@TheProductivityShop]

If there is a specific video that you would like it without, let me know and I’ll upload it. Thanks!

[@danielcsza]

Legend!

[@dr.mikeybee]

Nice! BTW, I prefer cmd cmd to engage Alfred.

[@TheProductivityShop]

Good choice!

[@rogue_carlisle6167]

lovely

[@faizhaider9098]

I love you

[@AmbientTonez-fr4pw]

LOL your so cute , the vaccum ! Love it

[@rogue_carlisle6167]

ikr

[@acos21]

sloooow jammmsssssss

[@TheProductivityShop]

👍️

[@mrpratster]

Sorry but the microphone is not very good. Too much base. Watching on Macbook Pro M1 Pro

[@TheProductivityShop]

It’s not perfect but better than the previous video!

[@robinandthedog]

It is just fine for me.

[@sistahofsurvival77]

Loe your vid.....However, I am in agreement with your Mom...You do go too fast.....For beginners or those who really wish to learn ..Please listen to your Mom on this...Thank you for sharing though.

[@johnkinsey2735]

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[@TheProductivityShop]

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