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Nick Taylor

Posted on Nov 21, 2019 Edited on Jun 16, 2020 Originally published at iamdeveloper.com

What are your favourite Alfred workflows?

#discuss #productivity

Alfred is such a great tool if you use a Mac.

I mention some that I use here

Jan 12 '18

#productivity #developertools #webdev

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I also have a few I wrote a while back for those interested.

Hopefully useful workflows for Alfred.

Find My JSFiddles: type fiddlefind username_to_search optional_key_words
Copy SSH Public Key to Clipboard: type copyssh
Open Finder Microsoft Style: type Command + E
Download YouTube Video: type ydl youtube_url_to_download (assumes you have youtube-dl installed). Videos are downloaded to ~/Downloads/youtube
Table Rage: Inserts table rage ASCII art, (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ into the frontmost application.
Debug Node in Chrome Launcher: type 'nd'

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For those of you that use Alfred, what are some of your favourite Alfred workflows?

I only recently switched to Alfred from LaunchBar, but so far here are the ones I'm using regularly.

and finally

Well that's enough to get started LOL

I love Dash App with Alfred integration for looking up documentation fast like Sonic.

Nice. I've used devdocs.io, but never really Dash. I'll check it out since it integrates with Alfred. Thanks for sharing!

Spotify Mini-player - Control spotify from Alfred
pwgen - Password generator
uuigden - Generator UUIDs when needed

Nice, thanks for the pointer to Spotify mini player.

AlfredWorkflow-Recent-Documents: view recent opened files and
App Install: Install most recently downloaded app -Clean app: Uninstall by typing app name using App Cleaner -Install: install any dmg file and put it in the Application -Spotify mini player: play/pause/find-song in Spotify by Alfred spotlight search -Simple screenshot: take a screenshot and save to clipboard, then I just need to paste the image -Rapid browser tab: Find active tabs in Safari and Chrome by typing some of its title