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Re: Alfred 2 Workflows

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Post by JEVLON » Wed, Sep 25, 2013, 3:52 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/

CTRL + Down brings up thumbnails of the current application's windows, though it isn't particularly keyboard friendly.

Re: Alfred 2 Workflows

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Post by lsdr » Wed, Sep 25, 2013, 4:30 AM UTC

It is a nice bundle indeed. One workflow I found is missing, though, is Dev Doctor: http://wemakeawesomesh.it/alfred-dev-doctor

Easy to use, quick access to several languages (python, ruby, js, clojure) base documentation.

Re: Alfred 2 Workflows

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Post by tankbot » Wed, Sep 25, 2013, 4:36 AM UTC

cleversoap wrote: post #8

aroch wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not many, but the point is you don't need to call up a terminal window. There are various 'visor' implementations of terminals, but they annoy the crap out of me. I much prefer being able to invoke Alfred and doing short one-liners from it

I am the exact opposite, I prefer to do all these sorts of tasks in a 'visor' terminal and leave Alfred as little more than a pretty app launcher. Different strokes etc...

Same here. I love Alfred but I often forget it's even around because of my visor terminal.

Re: Alfred 2 Workflows

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Post by coderholic » Wed, Sep 25, 2013, 5:39 AM UTC

Very cool! I've been a long time Alfred user but hadn't upgraded to the power pack before. This finally convinced me. I just put together my first workflow (ip details - info at http://www.alfredforum.com/topic/3157-ipinfo-workflow-ip-add...). It's really simple to do and very flexible. I can see myself building more and more of these and them becoming a regular part of my "workflow".

Re: Alfred 2 Workflows

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Post by christiangenco » Wed, Sep 25, 2013, 5:53 AM UTC

hboon wrote: post #16

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

Hot damn, you blew me away:

    Since 30 Oct, 2012, @alfredapp has been used 3,492 times. Average 10.5 times per day

Re: Alfred 2 Workflows

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Post by hboon » Wed, Sep 25, 2013, 6:02 AM UTC

christiangenco wrote: post #25

hboon wrote: post #16

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

Hot damn, you blew me away: Since 30 Oct, 2012, @alfredapp has been used 3,492 times. Average 10.5 times per day

I don't know what happened to my earlier stats, maybe v1's stats was lost. But I think I was consistently 200+ or 300+ a day once I gotten used to using it. Works incredibly well as a task switcher once you map a few key single characters to apps (like v/vMacVim, x/Xcode, i/iTerm, s/Safari, c/Chrome etc).

Re: Alfred 2 Workflows

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Post by techwizrd » Wed, Sep 25, 2013, 6:24 AM UTC

Shank wrote: post #19

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)?

For Linux, there is Synapse (which seems to have replaced GNOME-Do).

https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/synapse/

Re: Alfred 2 Workflows

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Post by blumkvist » Wed, Sep 25, 2013, 8:11 AM UTC

Shank wrote: post #19

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)?

just glanced over it, because im terribly busy, check out gnome-do.

Re: Alfred 2 Workflows

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Post by unicornporn » Wed, Sep 25, 2013, 8:34 AM UTC

traek wrote: post #18

ihodes wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

+1 to this. I installed Witch when I started using OS X, but as soon as I found out about Cmd+~ I uninstalled it.

Re: Alfred 2 Workflows

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Post by LTheobald » Wed, Sep 25, 2013, 9:12 AM UTC

Shank wrote: post #19

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)?

I wouldn't hold your breath on that. The Alfred team are sticking to what they are good at - Mac development. Porting something to Windows (and doing it natively) is a huge chunk of work & all the time you wouldn't be working on improving the existing product.