Alfred 2 Workflows • Hacker News Board

Re: Alfred 2 Workflows

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Post by ipodize » Wed, Sep 25, 2013, 1:34 AM UTC

yankoff wrote: post #3

is there anything similar for ubuntu?

I'm not a heavy Linux user, but I have this on my experimental Arch Linux installation (it works on Ubuntu as well)...

http://engla.github.io/kupfer/

Re: Alfred 2 Workflows

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Post by llamataboot » Wed, Sep 25, 2013, 1:57 AM UTC

Plenty more workflows at the actual site http://www.alfredforum.com/forum/3-share-your-workflows/

Re: Alfred 2 Workflows

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Post by mwill » Wed, Sep 25, 2013, 2:31 AM UTC

I've just realised something, although I love Alfred and bought a licence and cant work without it, I neglect almost all of its features. My main use for Alfred? App switching. I find it faster and more reliable that cmd+tab.

Re: Alfred 2 Workflows

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Post by abhinavg » Wed, Sep 25, 2013, 2:50 AM UTC

twodayslate wrote: post #4

yankoff wrote: post #3

is there anything similar for ubuntu?

http://cooperteam.net/

GNOME Do has not had a release since 2009.

Re: Alfred 2 Workflows

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Post by ihodes » Wed, Sep 25, 2013, 3:11 AM UTC

mwill wrote: post #13

I've just realised something, although I love Alfred and bought a licence and cant work without it, I neglect almost all of its features. My main use for Alfred? App switching. I find it faster and more reliable that cmd+tab.

I love Alfred and use it all the time, often for app-switching, but I also use Witch [1]. Big time-saver, especially for referring for documentation. Killer feature is switching between windows in the same application, something that is woefully impossible using the native OS X app switcher (something vanilla Windows has over vanilla OS X, hands-down).

[1]:http://manytricks.com/witch/

Re: Alfred 2 Workflows

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Post by hboon » Wed, Sep 25, 2013, 3:16 AM UTC

If you use Alfred, go to Alfred Preferences and click Usage, you'll see:

"Since 26 Mar, 2013, @alfredapp has been used 72,034 times. Average 393.6 times per day."

http://cl.ly/image/1L1S1a2B1R3M

Re: Alfred 2 Workflows

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Post by biscarch » Wed, Sep 25, 2013, 3:35 AM UTC

Alfred is awesome. I often use it for opening browser workflows and launching quick scripts to do things like open specific JIRA tickets.

Re: Alfred 2 Workflows

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Post by traek » Wed, Sep 25, 2013, 3:35 AM UTC

ihodes wrote: post #15

mwill wrote: post #13

I've just realised something, although I love Alfred and bought a licence and cant work without it, I neglect almost all of its features. My main use for Alfred? App switching. I find it faster and more reliable that cmd+tab.

I love Alfred and use it all the time, often for app-switching, but I also use Witch [1]. Big time-saver, especially for referring for documentation. Killer feature is switching between windows in the same application, something that is woefully impossible using the native OS X app switcher (something vanilla Windows has over vanilla OS X, hands-down). [1]: http://manytricks.com/witch/

You can use Cmd+~ to switch between application windows if they're in the same desktop.

Re: Alfred 2 Workflows

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Post by Shank » Wed, Sep 25, 2013, 3:42 AM UTC

I really wish that this could be ported to Windows or Linux. I haven't heard much from the developer about that when asked; but it seems like a far fetched goal right now.

Does anyone have suggestions for Windows that aren't Launchy (or, Launchy addons/improvements to use)?

Re: Alfred 2 Workflows

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Post by jfernandez » Wed, Sep 25, 2013, 3:43 AM UTC

biscarch wrote: post #17

Alfred is awesome. I often use it for opening browser workflows and launching quick scripts to do things like open specific JIRA tickets.

Mind sharing the JIRA one?